Trauma-Trained Speaker for Organizations Ready to Rethink Anxiety, Burnout, and Human Performance
Stacey Uhrig helps organizations rethink burnout, stress, and anxiety through a trauma-trained, nervous-system-informed lens—giving audiences practical insight into why high performers get stuck, shut down, overextend, or emotionally exhaust themselves, and what actually helps people function more effectively under pressure.
As seen on Brainz Magazine • Host of the Flip Your Mindset Podcast • 20+ years lived/professional experience
Stacey Uhrig - Speaker, Educator, Trauma Care Pracitioner
Stacey Uhrig is a Certified Trauma Care Practitioner, dynamic speaker, and founder of Flip Your Mindset, a coaching practice and podcast that helps people heal from within by understanding what’s really driving their emotional patterns.
With over 20 years of lived experience and professional training, Stacey has a gift for translating complex concepts from mental health, trauma care, and neuroscience into tools that are both practical and powerful. She is certified in Parts Work & Polyvagal Theory, Rapid Transformational Therapy (RTT), and Hypnosis, and brings a trauma-informed, nervous-system-rooted lens to everything she teaches.
Known for her heart-centered and highly engaging style, Stacey speaks to healthcare leaders, women’s empowerment groups, therapists, educators, corporate teams, and leadership summits across the country. Her sessions go beyond surface-level strategies—offering deep, accessible insights that spark lasting change.
One of Stacey’s most requested talks is Befriending Anxiety—a powerful session that flips the script on how we approach stress. Instead of fighting your nervous system or muscling through panic, Stacey shows participants how to listen to their inner signals with compassion and curiosity—before they explode into burnout. It’s not about “fixing” anxiety. It’s about learning to understand the part of you that’s trying to protect you.
Her passion for this work is rooted in her own 20-year battle with anxiety—and the freedom that came when she finally understood what was driving it. Stacey lives in Basking Ridge, NJ with her husband Matt, their two sons, Ben and Tae, and their dogs, Ella and Iris.
Signature Talks
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Rethinking Stress, Survival Patterns, and the Hidden Drivers of Human Behavior
This powerful and thought-provoking keynote challenges common misconceptions about trauma and explores how unresolved stress patterns can shape communication, burnout, perfectionism, emotional reactivity, and workplace dynamics—often without people realizing it.
Audiences leave with a deeper understanding of the nervous system, greater compassion for themselves and others, and practical insight into why people behave the way they do under pressure.
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Understanding Anxiety Through a Nervous-System-Informed Lens
In this engaging talk, Stacey reframes anxiety not as weakness or dysfunction, but as an adaptive response designed to protect us.
Blending neuroscience, storytelling, and practical insight, this talk helps audiences better understand overwhelm, overthinking, perfectionism, emotional exhaustion, and the hidden patterns driving stress in both life and work.
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Why stress management alone isn’t solving burnout—and what leaders, teams, and organizations may be missing.
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A neuroscience-informed look at why capable people become emotionally exhausted, reactive, disconnected, or stuck under pressure
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An engaging exploration of how unconscious beliefs, protective patterns, and chronic stress influence the way people lead, work, relate, and respond to challenges.
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Why insight alone doesn’t create change—and how understanding the nervous system can improve self-awareness, adaptability, and emotional resilience.
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A fresh perspective on perfectionism, over-functioning, emotional exhaustion, and the hidden survival patterns driving workplace stress.
Trusted By
Stacey doesn’t deliver surface-level stress management. She helps audiences understand the deeper patterns driving stress, anxiety, burnout, and emotional reactivity—without shame, jargon, or clinical overwhelm.
Her talks blend lived experience, trauma training, nervous system education, storytelling, and practical insight. Audiences leave with language for what they’ve been feeling, compassion for why it makes sense, and a clearer path forward.
Excellent choice for breakout sessions, workshops, fireside chats, and panel discussions.
