She Survived the Unsurvivable. Then She Found Her Voice and Used it to Help Others Find Theirs.
Kiersten Hathcock | Keynote Speaker for Healing, Wellness & Transformation Events
There are speakers who talk about healing.
And then there are speakers who have actually been through it — the kind of healing that is not linear, not pretty, and not something you can fully explain to someone who hasn't lived it. The kind that requires you to go back into the darkest rooms of your own history and sit there long enough to understand what happened. The kind that asks you to trust something beyond what you can see, prove, or explain.
Kiersten Hathcock is the second kind of speaker.
She is a survivor of childhood sexual abuse and narcissistic abuse who spent years navigating the confusion, self-blame, and isolation that trauma leaves behind — all while building a successful company, raising a family, and presenting a capable, composed face to the world. She knows what it is to carry something enormous in silence. She knows what it costs. And she knows (with the hard-won certainty of someone who has actually made it to the other side) what it takes to heal.
What she did not expect was that the healing would come, in part, through a gift she never asked for.
At the age of 36, Kiersten began experiencing what she could only describe as mediumship, an ability to receive information from beyond the physical world that was as disorienting as it was undeniable. She did not seek it out. She did not know what to do with it. And she spent years quietly grappling with what it meant — until it led her somewhere she never could have imagined: working alongside law enforcement, including retired NYPD Detective Mark Pucci, using her intuitive abilities to help solve crimes and support the families of victims.
Her memoir, Little Voices, published by Post Hill Press in partnership with Simon & Schuster, tells the full story. It has been called propulsive, vivid, and rare — a book that is not just for survivors, but for anyone who wants to understand the relationship between trauma, intuition, and the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit.
When Kiersten stands on your stage, she brings all of it. The survival. The healing. The gift that emerged from the wreckage. And a message that has the power to change the way your audience understands themselves.
Who Books Kiersten for Healing & Wellness Events
Program directors and event planners book Kiersten when they need a keynote speaker who can hold the full weight of a healing-focused audience — with honesty, warmth, clinical sensitivity, and the kind of personal authority that only comes from lived experience.
She has spoken to:
Trauma Conferences & Survivor Organizations — bringing a voice that meets survivors exactly where they are, without minimizing the difficulty of what they have been through or the complexity of what recovery actually requires.
Wellness Summits & Holistic Health Events — speaking at the intersection of psychological healing, spiritual awakening, and practical resilience in a way that is grounded, credible, and deeply human.
Spiritual & Consciousness Events — sharing her mediumship journey with the kind of honesty and humility that resonates with audiences who are themselves navigating experiences that defy conventional explanation.
Mental Health Awareness Events — offering a survivor's perspective that complements clinical voices with the lived-in truth of what it actually feels like to move from surviving to thriving.
Retreat & Transformation Programming — serving as an anchor keynote that opens or closes a transformational experience with a story powerful enough to meet the depth of the work participants are doing.
Her Healing, Wellness & Transformation Keynotes
"Little Voices"
The keynote based on the Post Hill Press (Simon & Schuster distributed) memoir — a true story of survival, awakening, and the voice inside you that has been trying to protect you all along.
This is Kiersten's most personal keynote — and for many audiences, her most powerful.
Drawing directly from her memoir, Kiersten takes your audience inside the experience of surviving childhood sexual abuse and narcissistic abuse — not from a clinical distance, but from the inside, with the honesty and specificity that makes audiences feel genuinely less alone. She traces the long arc of her own healing including the false starts, the setbacks, the moments of clarity, and the unexpected spiritual awakening that ultimately became one of her most important tools for recovery.
She talks about the voices she began to hear. What they told her. What they led her to. And what she learned about the relationship between trauma, intuition, and the extraordinary wisdom of the body and spirit that conventional healing frameworks so often overlook.
This is not a talk about having survived. It is a talk about what survival opens up — about the version of yourself that becomes possible when you stop running from your own story and start listening to what it has always been trying to tell you.
Ideal for: Trauma conferences, survivor organizations, abuse recovery events, mental health awareness summits, women's healing retreats, spiritual and consciousness events
Your audience will leave with:
A profound sense of being seen, understood, and less alone in their own experience
A new framework for understanding intuition as an active partner in healing
Specific, practical tools for beginning to trust the inner voice that trauma taught them to silence
Hope — not the performative kind, but the real kind, grounded in an actual human story with an actual human outcome
"The Gut Knows First"
How intuition becomes your most powerful healing tool — and why learning to trust it again after trauma is one of the most radical acts of recovery.
One of the most insidious effects of abuse — particularly narcissistic abuse and childhood trauma — is what it does to a person's relationship with their own instincts. Survivors are trained, over time, to distrust their perceptions. To doubt what they feel. To override the signals their own bodies and spirits are sending them in favor of what the abuser, the system, or the silence tells them is true.
Reclaiming that instinct is not a luxury. It is a fundamental act of healing.
This keynote makes a carefully researched, deeply personal, and ultimately hopeful case for intuition as one of the most underutilized tools in the healing journey. Kiersten draws on her own experience — the moments her intuition tried to warn her, the years she spent overriding it, and the slow, nonlinear process of learning to hear it again — alongside insights from the psychologists, trauma specialists, and intuition researchers whose work helped her understand what was happening to her.
She gives your audience not just the why, but the how — specific, accessible practices for beginning to rebuild trust in their own inner knowing, one small act of listening at a time.
Ideal for: Trauma-informed wellness events, narcissistic abuse recovery conferences, mental health summits, holistic healing retreats, spiritual development programs
Your audience will leave with:
A clear understanding of how abuse disrupts intuitive intelligence — and how healing can restore it
Practical, trauma-informed techniques for beginning to reconnect with their own inner knowing
A reframe of intuition not as something mystical and inaccessible, but as a natural human capacity that can be gently, intentionally rebuilt
Permission to trust themselves again
"What the Dead Taught Me About Living"
An honest, humbling, and ultimately luminous account of one woman's unexpected mediumship journey — and what it revealed about grief, healing, and the love that outlasts everything.
Kiersten did not choose to become a medium. It chose her.
What began as unexplained experiences she didn't know how to name eventually became something she could no longer ignore — and ultimately, something she could no longer keep to herself. Because what she was receiving, again and again, were messages not for her but for others. For grieving families. For people carrying questions they had never been able to answer. For children — both living and in spirit — whose stories needed to be told.
In this keynote, Kiersten shares her mediumship journey with the honesty and humility it deserves — not as a performance, not as a demonstration, but as a story about what happens when a skeptical, practical, left-brained former marketing executive is asked by the universe to expand far beyond everything she thought she knew.
She talks about working alongside retired NYPD Detective Mark Pucci — a partnership that began with mutual skepticism and evolved into a collaboration that has supported crime victims, helped grieving families find closure, and challenged both of them to reconsider everything they thought they understood about the boundary between the living and the dead.
And she talks about what all of it taught her about grief. How it lives in the body, how it moves through generations, and how it asks to be witnessed rather than managed. And what it means to be truly, completely, unshakeably certain that love does not end.
Ideal for: Spiritual and consciousness events, grief support organizations, metaphysical conferences, holistic wellness summits, afterlife research events, intuitive development programs
Your audience will leave with:
A beautifully human account of one woman's reluctant but undeniable spiritual awakening
A new framework for understanding grief as a living, communicative force rather than a problem to be solved
Comfort — the real, lasting kind that comes not from platitudes but from story
An expanded sense of what is possible beyond the boundaries of conventional understanding
"Surviving and Thriving"
For audiences of survivors — the keynote that tells the truth about what recovery actually looks like, and what becomes possible on the other side of it.
Recovery is not a straight line. It does not follow a schedule. It does not look the way the books say it will look, or feel the way the well-meaning people in your life tell you it should feel. It is messy and nonlinear and sometimes it feels like you are going backward when you are actually going deeper.
Kiersten knows this because she lived it.
This keynote is her most direct address to survivor audiences — the talk she gives when she knows that many of the people in the room are still in the middle of their own healing, and that what they need is not someone standing at a polished distance telling them it gets better. What they need is someone who has actually been where they are, who will sit with them in the difficulty of it without rushing to the resolution, and who can show them — through the actual texture of her own experience — that the life on the other side of this is not just possible but extraordinary.
She talks about what helped. What didn't. What surprised her. What she wishes someone had told her earlier. And what she has learned, through her own healing and through the thousands of conversations she has had with survivors since Little Voices was published, about the specific, practical things that make recovery not just possible but sustainable.
Ideal for: Survivor conferences, domestic violence awareness events, sexual abuse recovery organizations, mental health retreats, women's healing summits, trauma-informed care training events
Your audience will leave with:
Validation — deep, specific, honest validation of the nonlinear reality of their experience
Practical tools drawn from Kiersten's own recovery and the wisdom of the specialists she has worked alongside
A genuine, grounded sense of hope rooted not in optimism but in evidence
The felt experience of being in a room with someone who truly understands — and who made it through
Endorsements From the Healing & Wellness Community
"Kiersten's story teaches us that narcissistic abuse and coercive and controlling relationships scramble even the deepest metaphysical intuition. Little Voices teaches us how insidious these dynamics are, the trauma and generational issues that are activated, and how easy it is to get stuck in the cycle of confusion and self-blame." — Dr. Ramani Durvasula, Narcissism Expert, Licensed Clinical Psychologist & Bestselling Author
"Little Voices is a propulsive, vivid memoir that offers rare insight into emotional abuse and the ways in which it can both coexist and be healed by intuition. This isn't a book that's just for survivors — it's a book for anyone who wants to learn about intuitive ability and human psychology." — Dr. Kelly Sundberg, Professor & Award-winning Bestselling Author of Goodbye, Good Girl
"Kiersten saved my life." — Detective Mark Pucci, NYPD (Ret.)
“I binge read Little Voices in just a few days. I literally couldn’t put it down. I rooted for Kiersten from beginning to end as she shared her harrowing journey with us in a way that somehow—despite highlighting life’s unfairness—only helped me believe in hope and healing that much more.”—Amy B. Scher, International Bestselling Author of This is How I Save My Life + Energy Healer
“Little Voices is the rare type of book that speaks to nearly every audience including trauma survivors, women searching for their own identities, people struggling to connect to their intuition, entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs, people trying to improve their relationships, law enforcement, and individuals interested in mediumship and psychic abilities. It’s touching, funny, dark, joyful, and disturbing--in all of the best and most intriguing ways. I highly recommend Little Voices for your book collection. It will inspire you to learn more about your own untapped intuitive abilities and to trust and strengthen the ones you already have. It will encourage you to be your authentic self and pursue those dreams you never thought possible.”—Katie Beecher, Renowned Medical and Spiritual Intuitive, Licensed Professional counselor, and Author of Heal from Within: A Guidebook to Intuitive Wellness
“As a Marriage and Family Therapist, I have read numerous excellent self-help books and memoirs on all kinds of abuse. Rarely have I come across one in which childhood sexual abuse, marital codependent behaviors, and partner narcissistic abuse were presented in a narrative which so painfully and yet prophetically links them together. Little Voices accomplishes this and so much more. With her raw, authentic detailing of the abuses she endured along with her unorthodox gifts from the spirit world, Kiersten Parsons Hathcock’s memoir reminds us that until we heal the wounds within us, tragically we are drawn to external sources of validation--some healthy and some dangerous. Perhaps what is most noteworthy of Hathcock’s memoir is her unwavering commitment to accountability, integrity, and truth--with herself and with others. We are not left feeling sorry for Little Voices. We are cheering with her and rooting for her all the way.”—Holli Kenley, MA, LMFT, and Author of Breaking Through Betrayal: And Recovering the Peace Within
A Note on Kiersten's Approach to Healing Audiences
Kiersten does not take lightly the trust that survivor and healing-focused audiences place in a speaker. She understands that when someone who has experienced trauma chooses to sit in a room and listen, they are making an act of profound vulnerability — and she approaches that with corresponding care.
Her keynotes for healing audiences are thoughtfully constructed to be activating without being retraumatizing. She works closely with event organizers before every engagement to understand the specific population in the room, any particular sensitivities to be aware of, and what the event's therapeutic or programmatic goals are — so that her content serves the larger arc of healing your event is designed to support.
She is not a therapist and does not position herself as one. She is a survivor, a storyteller, and a witness — and she brings all three to every stage she stands on.
What to Expect When You Book Kiersten
Booking Kiersten for a healing or wellness event includes a pre-event conversation to ensure her content is calibrated for your specific audience. She is available to coordinate with clinical staff or therapists who are part of your programming team, and she is happy to discuss content considerations, trigger awareness, and how her talk fits within the broader therapeutic or transformational arc of your event.
She stays after every engagement for as long as the room needs her. In healing spaces, that often means a very long time — and she considers that one of the most important parts of the work.
Speaking fees for healing, wellness, and transformation engagements begin at $7,500.
Ready to Bring Kiersten to Your Event?
Kiersten is selectively booking healing, wellness, and transformation keynotes for 2026 and 2027.
Every healing event is different. If you'd like to talk through what Kiersten's presence could look like for your specific audience and programming, reach out — she welcomes that conversation.
