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Lilli Correll, MA, LPC-S, CCTP, is a former Fortune 5 healthcare executive, trauma clinician, independent consultant, and bestselling author of Resolve to Rise: Become Greater than Your Circumstances. With 30 years of experience in behavioral health and integrated care, she is a sought-after keynote speaker across industries.
Her work centers on a single reframe: what gets labeled resistance, dysfunction, or defect is often the nervous system's most intelligent attempt to survive. Lilli helps audiences move past pathologizing that adaptation — toward honoring it, understanding it, and finding life-giving paths through it. This reframe sits at the center of her Resolve to Rise Roadmap, the framework that is the cornerstone of her talks.
Lilli has captivated audiences across industries — speaking to thousands at conferences, webinars, and corporate events. From frontline providers to organizational leaders, her presentations resonate on both professional and personal levels.
Through her signature blend of intellect, compassion, storytelling, and humor, Lilli helps individuals and organizations rethink their approach to stress, trauma, and fostering resilience in themselves and others. She's the first to laugh at herself along the way — this journey is messy, and she's living proof it doesn't have to be perfect to be powerful.
The moment someone realizes they were never broken — just adapting. Watching their face change as shame turns into respect — that's what puts a smile on my face, every time. I'm driven by one belief: we must show respect for what we've walked through, and recognize that what may look dysfunctional is often a reflection of our adaptive brilliance. My passion is helping individuals and organizations recognize that brilliance in themselves — and rebuild with grace.
At a retreat for Learn to Cope — a community for people who love someone struggling with substance use — I had large sheets of paper hung around the room, each one labeled with a different hard experience, among others: death of a loved one, chronic health conditions, mental illness or substance abuse, loving someone with mental illness or substance abuse. I gave everyone sticky notes and asked them to place one on any sheet that reflected something they'd lived through. No names, no writing — just the sticky note.
People moved quietly at first — then lines started forming at some of the sheets, people sharing their stickies with each other as some ran out.
As they began moving back to their tables, I asked them to pause and look around the room to see what we had collectively carried — so much more than what brought any of us there that day. No matter how hard the experience any one of us was walking through, we are never alone.
By the end of the presentation, the room gave a standing ovation. We had experienced something together — their vulnerability and engagement in an authentic and honest experience.
My journey started at 16, in a support group I attended during a hard chapter of my life. I kept expecting to feel like the only one — instead, I kept hearing my own thoughts, feelings, and experiences described by other people, almost word for word. There's a term for what I'd been carrying without knowing it: terminal uniqueness, the belief that your pain is somehow more isolating, more shameful, or more unusual than anyone else's. It rarely is.
That realization — that I was never as alone as I felt — became the seed of everything I've built since. It's why Normalize is the very first phase of my Resolve to Rise Roadmap: before anyone can heal, they have to know their experience is human, not exceptional.
In the decades since, that understanding kept deepening — through my identity shifting from "savior" to "person," through writing my book and realizing the brain's most "dysfunctional-looking" responses are actually adaptive, and through neurofeedback in 2023 that showed me just how long I'd been running on high alert without knowing it. Each layer built on the one before it. But it all started with a room full of strangers, at 16, teaching me I wasn't as alone as I thought.
This session examines why trauma remains one of the most under-identified drivers of high-acuity behavioral health presentations — despite decades of research confirming how common it is. Drawing on a landmark finding that only 2% of patients meeting full criteria for PTSD have it documented in their charts, this talk explores how "treatment-resistant" diagnoses often reflect an unaddressed, dysregulated nervous system rather than a defect in the patient. Attendees will learn to distinguish being trauma-informed from actually treating trauma, understand how nervous system dysregulation presents as common psychiatric diagnoses, and explore a practical model for sequencing care that leads with stabilization before layering in other evidence-based modalities.
Benefits to attendees:
Target audience: Behavioral health clinicians, medical directors, program leaders, and managed care/payer-side professionals working with high-acuity populations.
Level: Intermediate to Expert (assumes clinical or operational familiarity with behavioral health treatment settings).
This keynote creates a powerful, shared experience of normalization for audiences who have lived through hard things themselves, or who love someone who has. Through interactive exercises and personal storytelling, attendees discover they are far less alone in their experiences than they realized.
Attendees will:
Target audience: Individuals and communities impacted by a loved one's substance use or mental illness; recovery community events; family support organizations
Level: Novice
Leaders in trauma-exposed systems — child welfare, healthcare, and other high-stakes human services fields — are asked to manage teams facing daily secondary trauma exposure, often without ever being given a framework for the toll it takes. This talk normalizes that reality and introduces GRACE as a leadership posture for creating a more regulated, sustainable team culture.
Attendees will:
Target audience: Leaders, administrators, and supervisors in child welfare, healthcare, human services, and other trauma-exposed workplaces
Level: Novice to Intermediate
Trauma shapes the patterns and beliefs we carry long after the danger that created them has passed. This talk guides audiences through an honest inventory of their own adaptive strategies — not to judge themselves, but to understand why those strategies developed in the first place.
Attendees will:
Target audience: General audiences on a personal growth or healing journey; corporate wellness events; behavioral health and recovery community settings
Level: Novice
Once someone understands their patterns, the next step is envisioning something better — and building a plan that survives contact with real life. Using tools like the Miracle Question, this talk helps audiences move from vague hope to specific vision, then into a concrete plan.
Attendees will:
Target audience: General and corporate audiences focused on personal or professional growth
Level: Novice to Intermediate
Insight and planning mean nothing without action — and action alone doesn't create growth without reflection. This closing talk in the Resolve to Rise series explores how small, consistent steps compound into real change, and how intentional action paired with curiosity turns experience into lasting wisdom.
Attendees will:
Target audience: General and corporate audiences seeking sustainable personal or organizational growth practices
Level: Novice to Intermediate
At a retreat for Learn to Cope — a community for people who love someone struggling with substance use — I had large sheets of paper hung around the room, each one labeled with a different hard experience, among others: death of a loved one, chronic health conditions, mental illness or substance abuse, loving someone with mental illness or substance abuse. I gave everyone sticky notes and asked them to place one on any sheet that reflected something they'd lived through. No names, no writing — just the sticky note.
People moved quietly at first — then lines started forming at some of the sheets, people sharing their stickies with each other as some ran out.
As they began moving back to their tables, I asked them to pause and look around the room to see what we had collectively carried — so much more than what brought any of us there that day. No matter how hard the experience any one of us was walking through, we are never alone.
By the end of the presentation, the room gave a standing ovation. We had experienced something together — their vulnerability and engagement in an authentic and honest experience.
My journey started at 16, in a support group I attended during a hard chapter of my life. I kept expecting to feel like the only one — instead, I kept hearing my own thoughts, feelings, and experiences described by other people, almost word for word. There's a term for what I'd been carrying without knowing it: terminal uniqueness, the belief that your pain is somehow more isolating, more shameful, or more unusual than anyone else's. It rarely is.
That realization — that I was never as alone as I felt — became the seed of everything I've built since. It's why Normalize is the very first phase of my Resolve to Rise Roadmap: before anyone can heal, they have to know their experience is human, not exceptional.
In the decades since, that understanding kept deepening — through my identity shifting from "savior" to "person," through writing my book and realizing the brain's most "dysfunctional-looking" responses are actually adaptive, and through neurofeedback in 2023 that showed me just how long I'd been running on high alert without knowing it. Each layer built on the one before it. But it all started with a room full of strangers, at 16, teaching me I wasn't as alone as I thought.
This session examines why trauma remains one of the most under-identified drivers of high-acuity behavioral health presentations — despite decades of research confirming how common it is. Drawing on a landmark finding that only 2% of patients meeting full criteria for PTSD have it documented in their charts, this talk explores how "treatment-resistant" diagnoses often reflect an unaddressed, dysregulated nervous system rather than a defect in the patient. Attendees will learn to distinguish being trauma-informed from actually treating trauma, understand how nervous system dysregulation presents as common psychiatric diagnoses, and explore a practical model for sequencing care that leads with stabilization before layering in other evidence-based modalities.
Benefits to attendees:
Target audience: Behavioral health clinicians, medical directors, program leaders, and managed care/payer-side professionals working with high-acuity populations.
Level: Intermediate to Expert (assumes clinical or operational familiarity with behavioral health treatment settings).
This keynote creates a powerful, shared experience of normalization for audiences who have lived through hard things themselves, or who love someone who has. Through interactive exercises and personal storytelling, attendees discover they are far less alone in their experiences than they realized.
Attendees will:
Target audience: Individuals and communities impacted by a loved one's substance use or mental illness; recovery community events; family support organizations
Level: Novice
Leaders in trauma-exposed systems — child welfare, healthcare, and other high-stakes human services fields — are asked to manage teams facing daily secondary trauma exposure, often without ever being given a framework for the toll it takes. This talk normalizes that reality and introduces GRACE as a leadership posture for creating a more regulated, sustainable team culture.
Attendees will:
Target audience: Leaders, administrators, and supervisors in child welfare, healthcare, human services, and other trauma-exposed workplaces
Level: Novice to Intermediate
Trauma shapes the patterns and beliefs we carry long after the danger that created them has passed. This talk guides audiences through an honest inventory of their own adaptive strategies — not to judge themselves, but to understand why those strategies developed in the first place.
Attendees will:
Target audience: General audiences on a personal growth or healing journey; corporate wellness events; behavioral health and recovery community settings
Level: Novice
Once someone understands their patterns, the next step is envisioning something better — and building a plan that survives contact with real life. Using tools like the Miracle Question, this talk helps audiences move from vague hope to specific vision, then into a concrete plan.
Attendees will:
Target audience: General and corporate audiences focused on personal or professional growth
Level: Novice to Intermediate
Insight and planning mean nothing without action — and action alone doesn't create growth without reflection. This closing talk in the Resolve to Rise series explores how small, consistent steps compound into real change, and how intentional action paired with curiosity turns experience into lasting wisdom.
Attendees will:
Target audience: General and corporate audiences seeking sustainable personal or organizational growth practices
Level: Novice to Intermediate
