Charle Peck, LCSW, LISW, M.Ed. is a licensed clinician and former educator who speaks and trains professionals internationally and provides trauma therapy through her private practice.

Human behavior has been at the center of Charle Peck’s work for more than two decades.

Before becoming a licensed clinical therapist and keynote speaker, Charle spent more than 18 years working in education. Today, she brings those perspectives together to help people understand behavior, respond effectively under pressure, and find their way forward when they feel stuck.

CHARLE'S KEYNOTE

Thriving Under Pressure

Rooted in neuroscience, Charle Peck’s keynote equips professionals in high-demand positions with a practical tools to improve confidence, communication and performance.

When adults thrive, systems function well. Charle helps educators, health care staff, and leadership teams turn stress into stability with clear, actionable strategies they can use immediately.

Bring Charle to your next event, and start the transformation today.

Charle’s keynote gives people more than motivation…it gives them mastery. Her message will light your audience up with powerful + relatable stories to start them on a path to real, sustainable change.

TRAINING TOPICS

Targeted training for the human challenges affecting schools, workplaces, and organizations 

Although roles and settings differ, people across industries face many of the same challenges: stress, anxiety, avoidance, difficult behavior, conflict, grief, disengagement, and emotional overload. Each session is customized with relevant examples, language, and applications for your audience.

• The Language of Behavior 

  A Framework to Address Common Issues With Clarity & Confidence

  Learn to look beneath challenging, confusing, or disruptive behavior, identify what may be driving it, and respond in ways that reduce defensiveness and improve connection, accountability, and outcomes.

  Applicable to classrooms, leadership, supervision, clinical work, customer-facing roles, and team relationships.

• Anxiety & Avoidance 

  Turning Pressure Into Performance

  Understand how anxiety drives avoidance, procrastination, shutdown, reassurance-seeking, and resistance—and learn practical strategies that increase participation, confidence, and follow-through.

  Applicable to student attendance, classroom engagement, workplace performance, treatment participation, leadership, and difficult transitions.

• De-Escalation Under Pressure 

  What to Notice, Say, and Do Before Behavior Peaks

  Recognize early signs of escalation and use practical verbal, nonverbal, and environmental strategies to reduce tension, interrupt power struggles, and respond more effectively during emotionally charged situations.

  Applicable to schools, behavioral-health settings, workplaces, public-facing roles, and leadership teams. *This session focuses on prevention and relational de-escalation. It does not include physical-intervention or restraint certification.

• Working With Difficult People 

  Staying Effective When Emotions Run High

  Learn to recognize defensiveness, reactivity, control struggles, and unproductive communication patterns while maintaining composure, clarity, boundaries, and accountability.

  Applicable to colleagues, students, employees, clients, families, supervisors, and customers.

• Thriving Under Pressure 

  Maintaining Self-Control in High Demand Environments

  Understand how pressure affects attention, decision-making, behavior, communication, and performance. Participants leave with practical strategies for recognizing stress signals, regulating their responses, and recovering more effectively.

  Applicable to educators, leaders, clinicians, employees, caregivers, and teams.

• Managing Behavior Under Pressure

  Responding Effectively When Others Push Back

  Learn practical strategies for establishing expectations, preventing power struggles, responding consistently, and increasing participation without sacrificing accountability.

  Applicable to educators, leaders, clinicians, employees, caregivers, and teams.

• ADHD, Attention & Engagement 

  Support Strategies for Focus and Follow-Through

  Explore how ADHD and executive-functioning differences affect attention, organization, emotional regulation, motivation, time management, and task completion—and learn strategies that support success without shame or unnecessary power struggles.

  Applicable to students, employees, leaders, clinicians, and teams.

• Depression & Anxiety - BFFs 

  Breaking the Cycle of Worry, Withdrawal, and Overwhelm

  Understand how anxiety and depression reinforce one another through avoidance, isolation, rumination, exhaustion, and reduced activity. Participants learn how to recognize the cycle and support practical movement toward engagement and recovery.

  Applicable to schools, workplaces, behavioral-health organizations, leadership teams, and helping professionals.

• Working Through Loss 

  How to Recognize, Respond, and Refer

  Learn how to notice meaningful changes in behavior, begin an appropriate conversation, respond without diagnosing or overstepping, and connect someone with additional support.

  Applicable to educators, administrators, school counselors, managers, HR leaders, supervisors, and helping professionals.

   

  Most topics are available virtually or in person as a 90-minute targeted session, half-day workshop, or full-day intensive.