Programs that help girls grow into themselves, and talks that help the educators around them do the same. Designed for women and girls.
A glimpse into what a Love Is The Verb experience looks, sounds, and feels like.
Karlyn Benn is a Psychotherapist, Liberation Strategist, Transformational Speaker, and former educator who has spent more than fifteen years at the intersection of mental health, emotional intelligence, and human development.
Before she was a therapist, Karlyn was in the classroom. She understands the interior life of a school, what educators carry daily, and what it actually takes to reach a girl who has already learned to make herself smaller.
Her work is centered on women and girls because she believes that what a girl learns about herself in adolescence shapes the woman she becomes, and that the women surrounding her need the same permission to do that work. This is not self-help at arm's length. It is grounded, specific, and rooted in fifteen years of clinical practice and her own lived experience.
She is the creator of the F.R.E.E. Method™, a framework for moving through self-doubt, perfectionism, and over-giving toward something more sustainable and more honest.
Most girls arrive in middle and high school already carrying a story about who they are, and most of it came from somewhere outside themselves. This program creates a structured, emotionally safe space for girls to slow down, look inward, and begin building something more honest.
Each session is designed to meet students where they are, honoring their lived experience while building tools that transfer beyond the room.
Girls learn to notice and name what is happening inside them before being asked to evaluate or change anything. Emotional vocabulary, body signals, and the difference between feelings and reactions.
Girls examine how they talk to themselves, including patterns of self-doubt, comparison, and self-criticism, and begin practicing a kinder way of relating to themselves.
Girls deepen emotional awareness and build practical strategies for pausing, understanding triggers, body acceptance, and responding rather than reacting. Regulation is introduced only after safety is established.
Confidence is reframed as self-trust, not performance. Girls practice honoring their own thoughts and feelings and making choices that align with self-respect rather than approval.
Girls explore what boundaries are and why they matter, how to recognize when they are needed, and how to communicate needs with clarity, courage, and self-respect.
Girls reflect on growth, identify personal strengths, and leave with practices they can carry forward. Gratitude as awareness, not pressure. Celebration without comparison.
During the school day or advisory period. 45 or 90-minute sessions.
Weekly sessions on campus across a quarter or semester.
A focused 60 to 90-minute session on one specific theme.
Shaped around your school's calendar, capacity, student population, and goals.
This work is designed for and centered on women. If men attend, they are welcome. They will also know exactly who the room was built for.
Karlyn speaks from clinical training, lived experience, and time spent in classrooms. She knows what it is to be responsible for other people's growth while privately managing your own.
For educators, counselors, school leaders, and the organizations that support them.
An honest look at what chronic over-giving costs, why educators are often socialized to not ask for help, and what sustainable presence actually looks like. Not a self-care checklist. A real conversation about burnout, identity, and what it takes to keep showing up without disappearing in the process.
Most educators in this country are women carrying layered roles, at work and at home, with very little space to ask what they actually need. This talk names what gets lost when worth is tied to how much you produce and how little you ask for. It is an invitation back to yourself, not a performance of okayness.
Many educators are exceptional at performing okayness while quietly falling apart inside. This talk examines what it costs to lead from behind a mask of competence, and how a shaky relationship with self-worth shapes the environment girls are learning in, whether we intend it to or not. When educators do their own interior work, the room changes. This talk connects directly to the work we do with girls, and makes the case for both.
Karlyn doesn't lecture. She holds something open in the room and the girls walk into it. By the end of the session, students who hadn't spoken all year were sharing things they had never said out loud.
Wow!! Is all I can say about my experience working with Karlyn Benn. I needed a keynote speaker for a large school police force to focus on building relationships and self-care to start the school year off. I say run don't walk to book her.
Working with Karlyn Benn is an empowering and transformative experience. Karlyn embodies a belief that is both refreshing and liberating: 'You don't have to conform to societal pressures or surrender to negative thoughts.'
An immersive five-day experience for girls ages 12–15. Limited spots.
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