Conversations That Matter.
Messages That Move With You.
LaQuita Willis, LCSW, CCTP, CGE, is a speaker, author, clinical educator, and trauma therapist who brings more than 15 years of behavioral-health experience to conversations about healing, trauma, strength, protection, grief, and the ways we learn to survive.
Through story-driven keynotes and clinically grounded professional education, LaQuita translates complex ideas into language audiences can recognize in their own lives and work. Her approach brings together lived experience, clinical expertise, cultural responsiveness, and practical tools creating space for people to feel seen while leaving with something they can carry beyond the room.
Available for keynotes, conferences, continuing education, professional trainings, organizational workshops, and community events.
Signature Keynotes
Story-driven keynotes blending lived experience, clinical insight, and practical healing language to help audiences rethink healing, strength, care, and what it means to move forward without leaving themselves behind.
But I Had Done the Work
Rethinking What Healing Means When Life Still Affects You
What happens when you’ve healed, grown, gone to therapy and life still hurts? LaQuita challenges the belief that healing should eventually make us unaffected by what we’ve lived through.
Strength Should Be Available Not Required
When Being “The Strong One” Becomes a Way of Surviving
An honest look at the cost of always being capable, dependable, and okay—and what becomes possible when strength becomes a choice rather than a requirement.
Caring Without Carrying
How to Care Deeply Without Becoming Responsible for Everyone Else
For helpers, caregivers, and leaders, LaQuita explores the difference between caring deeply and taking responsibility for other people’s emotions, problems, and outcomes.
Clinical & Professional Education
Clinically grounded, culturally responsive trainings designed to move beyond theory into reflection, application, and practical use.
Reclaiming Peace: IFS as a Pathway to Healing the Busy Parts in Black Women
An interactive, culturally responsive training exploring the protective responses LaQuita describes as “Busy Parts” patterns that may organize around achievement, caretaking, productivity, control, strength, and staying needed. Participants use selected IFS concepts to explore protective function while considering personal, cultural, relational, systemic, and present-day context.
I Thought I Was Past This: Rethinking Recurrence in Trauma Recovery
When familiar emotions, responses, or activation return, clients and sometimes clinicians may interpret their return as evidence that healing has failed. This training offers a more nuanced approach to recurrence by examining context, functioning, intensity, frequency, consequences, safety, and available choice.
Beyond the Armor: Recognizing Protective Over-Functioning in Clients Who Appear to Be Doing Well
High functioning does not always tell us how someone is doing. This training helps clinicians recognize and explore protective over-functioning with greater curiosity and context without automatically pathologizing competence, productivity, achievement, caregiving, or strength.
The Clinician’s Armor
Clinicians bring their own protective responses into the therapeutic relationship. This training invites helping professionals to examine how their reactions, assumptions, identities, and protective patterns may influence clinical engagement when working with clients whose “armor” shows up in the room.
LAQUITA PRESENTING: Reclaiming Peace: IFS as a Pathway to Healing the Busy Parts in Black Women.
Additional Speaking & Specialty Programs
Faith & Healing • Organizational Wellness • Community Conversations • Customized Programs
Faith-integrated presentations are available for churches, ministries, retreats, and Christian conferences, alongside customized programs for organizational and community audiences.
What Audiences Are Saying
Bolutife Dosumu
Excellent and very healing as well as practical
Deondra Crippen
Tilly-Ana Ceriser
LaQuita is phenomenal, I enjoyed her workshop last year and was grateful to see her as the key note speaker this year.
I’ve gone through IFS training before, but this one hit so much different. I unlocked another layer inside with this one. Phenomenal session!
Bring LaQuita to Your Event
Whether you're planning a professional conference, keynote experience, continuing education program, organizational training, or community event, LaQuita brings clinically grounded insight, compelling storytelling, and practical takeaways designed to connect with your audience and the purpose of your event.