Willa A. Young is a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist with over twenty years of clinical experience. She is president of the Santa Barbara Council for Self-Esteem and has published numerous articles on self-esteem and happiness. Her popular class, “Happiness Is an Inside Job,” has brought Willa much prominence in her field.

As a motivational and inspirational speaker, she faithfully calls attention to the idea that people who look at what’s working in their lives, rather than at what’s not working, experience more happiness. Her main goal as a facilitator in the field of self-esteem is to get people to feel at least one percent better about themselves. As Willa says, “Even a small gain such as this gives people hope that they can transform themselves into the person they truly want to be.”
As an author and motivational speaker, Willa speaks to a number of other themes including:

	Improving communication with yourself and others
	Finding time for yourself in the midst of everyday chaos
	Attracting compatible people who are right for you, and improving current relationships
	Establishing positive teamwork skills in the workplace
	How to unlock inner resources and transform negative thinking into positive action steps
	How to heal emotionally from loss of many kinds, such as death, divorce, and job loss

Willa’s guidance for personal change is one of compassion and caring coupled with a wonderful sense of humor.