I speak to a wide range of audiences, from universities and professional conferences to workshops, retreats, and churches. While every presentation is tailored to its audience, my work consistently explores the intersection of psychology, faith, and what it means to become more fully human.
Topics for Professional Audiences
Designed for social workers, counselors, psychologists, healthcare professionals, educators, nonprofits, and organizational leaders.
Popular topics include:
- Trauma-informed care
- Moral injury and professional identity
- Burnout and sustainable leadership
- Spirituality and mental health
- Grief, meaning-making, and resilience
- Behavioral health and interdisciplinary care
- Ethics and clinician well-being
- Social work education and supervision
Formats include keynote presentations, continuing education workshops, conference sessions, faculty lectures, and organizational training.
Topics for Churches & Ministry Leaders
Designed for churches, retreats, ministry teams, denominational gatherings, and faith-based organizations.
Popular topics include:
- Trauma and the Shepherd of Psalm 23
- Faith after disappointment
- Spiritual formation through suffering
- Attachment and the heart of God
- Caring for people experiencing trauma
- Burnout in ministry
- Rediscovering joy when faith falls apart
- Creating trauma-informed congregations
I also welcome invitations for guest preaching, sermons & sermon series, biblical teaching, and special services across a wide range of scriptural topics.
Formats include retreats, conferences, sermon series, workshops, leadership development, and guest preaching.
Official Bio
Wren Lichlyter-Klein is a writer, licensed clinical social worker, licensed addiction counselor, researcher, educator, and former minister whose work explores what it means to become more fully human.
Her writing weaves together psychology, story, faith, and lived experience to explore trauma, identity, belonging, burnout, joy, and the ordinary moments that quietly shape our lives. Whether writing books, scholarly publications, poetry, or essays, she is drawn to the questions that emerge when life refuses to unfold the way we expected—and the surprising ways people continue to grow in the midst of them.
As a clinician, Wren has spent her career walking alongside people navigating crisis, loss, addiction, serious illness, and life transitions. As a researcher and educator, she is passionate about translating complex ideas into conversations that are thoughtful, accessible, and meaningful for both professionals and everyday readers.
Wren holds master’s degrees in ministry and social work and is a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW) and licensed addiction counselor (LAC). Her scholarly work has been published in peer-reviewed journals and academic reference works, with research interests that include trauma, spirituality, behavioral health, moral injury, clinician well-being, and social work education.
She lives in Colorado where she continues to write, teach, research, and pay attention to the unexpected gifts that often arrive through the side door.
