Book Sandra Kwesell as a Guest Speaker
Sandra Kwesell, MSC, MFCT
Sandra is warm, caring, compassionate, and humble with a lifetime of education and hands-on experience. She knows children and relationships like few others:
- She holds degrees in Elementary Education, Special Education, and Marriage and Family Therapy/Counseling.
- For 30 years, she fostered children with complex behavioral concerns for whom every other placement failed.
- She has created Pillars for Success, a program that results in healing and growth and has achieved unprecedented successes in home, school, residential, day treatment, counseling, and even correctional settings.
Words of Praise
- “Outright brilliant when it comes to helping families.”
- “The biggest cheerleader for parents and children.”
- “Helped families build and rebuild relationships in ways that are life changing!”
- “Her impact across all settings has been amazing.
Want to hear more?
Author of The 9 Pillars of Successful Parenting
Introduce yourself to the Pillars for Success
Are you arguing with your children over the same things day after day after day? Do solutions work for a week, then fade, or do they even work at all? Effective parenting is a learned skill, and it isn’t something you have to learn on your own. Let’s work together to create a better parent-child relationship in your home.
Review copies for podcasters, show hosts, and other press may be made available upon request.
Want more information? See Our Books Page
Discussion Topics
Sandra Kwesell can speak about and answer questions about everything related to parenting and child behavior, but here are a few of her favorite topics.
Suggested topics:
- Demystifying the caregiver-child dynamic
- Reexamining child development and challenging behavior based on an entirely new model that results in lasting and positive growth and change for everyone involved
- Systems needing to change in order to create the best opportunities for the children, youth, and families they serve
- Family voice and choice
- The world of public education and the deficits in meeting the needs of the children and families they serve under the IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act)
- How to nurture and support children through the challenges of change (e.g., divorce, death of a loved one, trauma resulting from the effects of the Coronavirus)
Looking for more topic ideas? See Our Blog!
Background
- Pillars for Success parenting program creator, leading families in healing relationships through the demystification and reversal of negative, challenging, and sometimes aggressive or dangerous behaviors
- Unmatched success fostering children with severe behavioral complexity
- Degrees in Elementary Education, Special Education & Counseling
Sandra’s Journey
Sandra’s life journey is the result of her brother’s mental health issues that ended in suicide at the age of eighteen. Sandra was determined to find solutions for other families that her family could not find, and she succeeded! Learn more about Sandra’s journey on our About Page.
