Transformative Keynotes
Comedic Storytelling
Nervous System Leadership
Where Laughter Becomes a Gateway
Victoria integrates sharp, self aware comedy into select keynote experiences, using humor as a doorway into nervous system regulation, resilience, and post traumatic growth.
When people laugh, they soften. And when they soften, they can learn, reflect, and change.
Available formats include
• 60 minute Comedy and Keynote Experience
• 45 minute Keynote
• Custom curated experiences for conferences, leadership events, and organizations
Victoria’s Keynote Speaking Video
When Presence Changes the Room
When you invite Victoria to speak, you bring in a Registered Psychotherapist, award-winning keynote speaker, and author with over 25 years of experience guiding individuals and organizations through growth, crisis, and meaningful change.
Her work extends well beyond the stage through widely engaged digital platforms and educational content viewed more than 800,000 times across audiences seeking practical tools for nervous system regulation, resilience, and relational intelligence.
Blending neuroscience, lived experience, and disarming storytelling, Victoria helps audiences move from reactivity into clarity, steadiness, and courageous leadership. Her talks are insightful, practical, and deeply human leaving participants not only inspired, but equipped.
Have a look at what folks are saying about Victoria here!
Here Are Some of Topics
I guide adult individuals, couples, and companies as they heroically commit to the overhaul of their lineage and legacy.
The Nervous System Reset
A keynote and experiential talk exploring how prolonged stress, trauma, and high-pressure environments keep individuals and organizations locked in survival mode. Drawing from neuroscience, somatic psychology, and lived experience, Victoria guides audiences through how nervous system regulation—not willpower or positive thinking—creates clarity, resilience, and sustainable performance. This talk offers practical, accessible tools that help people move out of reactivity and into steadiness, presence, and choice—especially in times of rapid change and uncertainty.
This perspective also informs a new 6-week guided online experience I’m currently offering for those navigating life after illness, loss, or prolonged stress.
The Nervous System Reset
Unlock Your Brain: Wire Your Mind for Relaxation and Positivity
Your mind can be a dangerous neighbourhood. Left unattended, the brain naturally scans for threat. This negativity bias is not a flaw — it is a survival adaptation. But survival mode is not the same as living well.
In this interactive and experiential keynote, I guide audiences through the neuroscience of why the brain defaults to fear, rumination, and worst-case thinking — and more importantly, how to gently retrain it. Drawing on brain science, somatic practices, and practical daily tools, participants learn how to consciously wire their minds for calm, clarity, and sustainable positivity.
Because the brain that learned fear can also learn safety. And that changes everything.
Stop Dimming Your Light
We are wired for connection. But when we grow up in trauma, we become wired for protection.
We shrink. We over-accommodate. We silence our truth. We dim our light in order to belong or survive.
This powerful and heart-centered talk explores how early experiences shape self-expression, confidence, and boundaries. Through reflection and practical tools, I guide audiences in reclaiming their voice, their vitality, and their authentic presence.
When one person stops dimming their light, it changes families. It changes workplaces. It changes the world.
Pain Is the Currency You Pay for Growth
Are you a comfort junkie? Most of us are.
We love the familiar — even when it keeps us small. But growth requires friction. Change asks something of us. And the small, conscious discomfort of intentional growth prevents the devastating pain of staying stuck.
In this energizing and insight-driven keynote, I challenge audiences to rethink their relationship with discomfort. Through humor, neuroscience, and lived experience, I show how leaning into manageable challenge builds resilience, confidence, and lasting transformation.
A little intentional discomfort now can save you from a lifetime of regret later.
The Codependent and the Narcissist: A Match Made in Hell
Do you recognize this pairing?
This dynamic is powerful, magnetic — and often deeply enmeshed. One partner over-functions. The other demands and consumes. The dance can feel intoxicating, yet profoundly destabilizing.
In this illuminating talk, I unpack the psychological roots of codependency and narcissistic dynamics with clarity and compassion. Audiences learn how these patterns form, why they are so difficult to leave, and how to interrupt the cycle — whether in romantic relationships, families, or workplaces.
Awareness is liberation. Once you see the pattern, you no longer have to live inside it.
Workshops, Retreats, and Conferences
Invite Victoria to speak at your next event.
With over 25 years of clinical and leadership experience, Victoria brings depth, clarity, and grounded authority to every room she enters. Her work blends neuroscience, relational intelligence, and lived experience to create conversations that move people from reactivity into steadiness and meaningful action.
Corporate and Organizational Engagements
Victoria partners with leadership teams and organizations to strengthen workplace culture through emotional regulation, communication awareness, and relational accountability. When individuals understand their nervous systems and patterns of interaction, leadership becomes more effective, morale stabilizes, and collaboration improves.
These sessions are practical, insightful, and immediately applicable whether delivered as keynotes, workshops, or multi-day retreats.
Contact me for more information.
Here are some keynotes, workshops and seminars that Victoria has delivered!
A Toolbox to Increase Resiliency, Self-Acceptance & Optimism
July 21, 2018
A Toolbox to Increase Resiliency, Self-Acceptance & Optimism for the Canadian Areata Alopecia Foundation (CANAAF).
- So why is it, that our brains have a such a negativity bias?
- We are actually wired to pay more attention to negative experiences.
- You can train the brain to exit negativity!
Advanced Interviewing Skills for the Professional Writers Association of Canada (PWAC)
January 29, 2018
When you engage in the art of interviewing, the key is creating a connection with your interviewee. In this seminar the participants learn the subtle art of tuning into the edges of what a person is saying. Some aspects of the seminar include learning the difference between empathy versus sympathy. Match, Pace, Lead and asking questions from the art of Being Curious.
Art of Connecting in a Conscious way! Transform the Inner Bully!
June 1, 2016
(A recording of the talk!)
The art of connection. Tools to network in a positive way. Transforming the inner bully into a coach – give yourself positive self talk as you befriend that part of you to accept all of you and find the reasons why the bully shows up.
International Women’s Day and Victoria was asked to to a talk on Relationship Rescue 911: Fighting Fairly
March 6, 2016
My talk at the International Women’s Day 2016 event Held at the Hard Rock Cafe in Toronto: A Woman World in an Inside Job. Fighting without a game plan is like riding a freight train at full speed toward a brick wall. Here I talk about tools to fight fairly, stop defensiveness, stop blaming and getting out of the hurt child in your adult relationships. And how to get into the Balanced Adult during a conflict.
The Ultimate Life/Balance Bootcamp: Stop Worrying! And Kick Anxiety in the Butt Naturally!
November 2nd, 2014 in Toronto
With so many complications on the planet at the moment, not to mention our obsession with leading very busy lives, it is no surprise that many people are suffering from increased anxiety. Whether it is simple cabin fever or a complex anxiety disorder, anxiety can be a debilitating nightmare for many. The good news is there are ways to treat anxiety holistically, without drugs.
Toronto holistic psychotherapist Victoria Lorient-Faibish has been helping people fight anxiety and depression naturally for more than 20 years. On Sunday, November 2nd, 2014, she’ll host day long workshop focused on giving people tools and strategies to fight this important battle head on.
“This transformational and experiential day of learning is focused on helping participants break through anxiety and reclaim their real selves!” says Victoria. “We’ll cover everything from the biology of anxiety to supplements and strategies to transform perfectionism and your inner bully into a supportive inner coach.”
The Ultimate Holistic Anti-Anxiety Workshop
This workshop was fantastically attended in March of 2014!
Anxiety is at an all time high today and many are mystified as to how to treat and overcome this Goliath of our time without drugs. Learn about the biology of anxiety, change and brain plasticity. Experience proven tools and techniques that Victoria uses in her office daily, to rewire the brain so that a new normal can be achieved. Learn Ways to challenge the old concretized thoughts that keep you anxious and overcome the big “3”; guilt, anger and shame! Understand how to anchor in new beliefs so that when anxiety is there, you can easily tackle it and lessen its impact on you. This seminar can be utilized in multiple settings including in the corporate setting, since Anxiety is also compromising productivity as well as professional relationships and the bottom lines in companies. Mitigating anxiety in the work place in order to maintain and improve employee success and company profits is essential!
Client Non-Compliance – Working with the “Saboteur”
This workshop was very successful and well attended at the 2008 Holistic Nutrition Conference Feeding Minds: Mental Health & Nutrition.
This experiential workshop will explore how to work with your client’s internal saboteur. One of the most challenging issues confronting practitioners is clients’ non-compliance such as refusing to take appropriate supplements or continuing self-destructive habits. Explore parts work, somatic focusing, and the hurt child as techniques to neutralize these kinds of self-harming patterns within your client. Uncover ways to better assist your client so that they can truly begin to embrace your program.
Change requires three main elements: Willingness to do whatever it takes to move into a shift. Awareness to see with clarity that which is truly going on. And Courage to face this sometimes immensely challenging process toward authenticity. Here are some techniques to facilitate client awareness that could truly shift the self sabotaging behaviors.
Boundaries: The Essence of Good Relationships!
Understanding the anatomy of a good boundary is paramount to having healthy relationships both in personal and professional realms. Knowing the anatomy of a good boundary versus a bad one in key interactions amoung human beings is essential to improving the core of a company’s relational dynamic as well as mitigating the destruction of families and partnerships. When good boundaries are in place, morale is improved in companies, bottom lines are positively impacted, trust among co-workers and families is fostered and interpersonal dynamics are healed.
Healing Codependency in Leadership and At Home
Whether in the workplace on in personal relationships, the reality is that whatever is at the top trickles down to inform and impact the bottom. If the leadership at work or at home is dysfunctional and in this case codependent, chances are the success and efficiency of the leader will be compromised because so much of a codependent leader’s time is taken up by overly coddling, enabling and controlling those they are in charge of or in relationship with. Poor boundaries, inability to delegate, approval seeking, insecurity, micromanaging, as well as unfair assessing are all the domain of the codependent leader. This seminar will provide profound awareness, understanding and teach key tools to bring about key shifts in behaviour that reverse codependency. Once reversed, family and company dynamics can be restored. This seminar can also be applied to improve dynamics in schools where there are relational and communication challenges between teachers and management.
Heal the Hurt Child: Master the Art of Healthy Relationships
People want to be loved and want to have healthy relationships. Yet if the “Family-Culture” of origin has normalized dysfunctional, critical, shaming, blaming communication and relating, chances are there will be a destruction of the “Self-Culture” (the authentic self) allowing the hurt child to run the show. Unhealthy patterns will plague a person’s adult relationships and erode at the fundamentals of marriages, friendships, professional partnerships and families. In this seminar participants will unearth their “Self-Culture” by healing the hurt child within and in the process they will be able to gain mastery over their destructive hurt child behaviors including the big “5”: jealousy, resentment, guilt, anger and shame.
