Diana Ketterman is a mental health educator, speaker, and author.  Her memoir, A Child of Royalty, details her struggle to get help for her mother, who suffered with an undiagnosed mental illness and her father incapacitated with a brain tumor.  Her book is a Red City Book Review five-star, first place winner, and her story has been promoted by the National Institute for Civil Discourse. 

Diana has co-presented for United Way and the National Alliance on Mentally Illness (NAMI) with CNN writer and senior producer Wayne Drash and Virginia Senator Creigh Deeds.  She also is a co-author of a Virginia regional United Way community mental health report.

Diana is a certified Virginia award-winning teacher, a Mental Health First Aid Certified Instructor, and a Certified Grief Recovery Method Specialist.  She is the author of two children’s workbooks, Making Sense of Me and Behind the Mask:  Dealing with Anger, Grief, and Rejection.  The results of the implementation of her mental health curriculum in West Virginia shows that 40% more second graders participating in the Mental Health Curriculum, Making Sense of Me, know how to get hope back when they feel hopeless over those students who did not participate.

Diana’s services include: speaking engagements (i.e., keynote speaker, inservice, or presenter); Grief Recovery Sessions (Group and One-on-One), Transforming Loss Workshops, mastering mental health framework consulting for schools; mental health educational curriculum, mental health first aid certification, and mental health resiliency assessments. 

Diana also offers spiritual retreats as part of the mental health process at her retreat center, The Cabin Retreat, A Sanctuary for the Soul, in beautiful West Virginia.

Diana is available for speaking and training on a national level.  Information can be found on her website at www.masteringmentalhealth.com or www.thecabinretreat.com.  She can be contacted at [email protected] or 540-247-5036