Edie Raether

Biography:

Edie Raether, MS, CSP is a youth empowerment leader and behavioral health strategist with over 50 years of experience as a psychotherapist, family counselor, college professor, and bestselling author of seven books, including Stop Bullying Now!. She is the founder of Wings for Wishes Academy, a nonprofit dedicated to building resilient, remarkable children through mindset mastery. With advanced studies in neuropsychology and degrees in Occupational Therapy and Counseling from the University of Wisconsin, Edie has been a pioneering voice in child development and social change. A former ABC talk show host, she was mentored by world renown thought leaders such as Dr. Jean Houston, human potential development pioneer, Dr. J.L. Moreno, the father of psychodrama and Dr. Lauretta Bender, the creator of the Bender Gestalt psychological assessment. She has inspired thousands of associations on five continents and her TEDx Talks include Brain Fitness for Kids: Cloning the DNA of Einstein and Is AI and Digital Dopamine Making Us Dumb, addressing the digital dopamine epidemic.