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Thomas Kersting
Psychotherapist, Best-Selling Author & Television Personality
Thomas Kersting
Psychotherapist, Best-Selling Author & Television Personality
Biography
As a child, Tom Kersting grew-up in a financially challenged household. He began working for his father at age five, cleaning gas station bathrooms in Little Ferry, NJ, Tom progressed as his dad’s helper, cleaning attics, basements and garages, and by his pre-teen years he and his three siblings were all involuntarily employed by their dad to work, for free, cleaning office buildings three nights a week. By age fourteen Tom had become a self-made, paid entrepreneur, working any job he could, including cutting lawns, cutting trees, security, fast food, dish washing, shoveling snow and loading trucks.
By May of his senior year in high school Tom was unsure of his future. Thankfully he was equipped with a strong work ethic and a strong right arm. By a stroke of luck, a local college baseball coach happened to be at a game that Tom was pitching and offered him to attend the college on a partial baseball grant. Tom accepted and chose to major in Criminal Justice, for reasons he still can’t explain. During his sophomore baseball season Tom had developed a serious problem—an inability to throw strikes. At the advice of a teammate, he reluctantly met with a sports psychologist, hoping to find the elusive strike zone again. He succeeded. Intrigued by the power of the mind, Tom changed his major to psychology and graduated in 1994 with a BS degree in psychology.
In 1995 Tom landed his first career job, as a school counselor. He enrolled in graduate school for counseling and worked part-time time at night loading trucks. By 2000 Tom had completed two Master’s degrees, 4500 hours of clinical counseling training, passed a grueling exam and earned his professional counseling license. He immediately found a small office, hung a shingle and began counseling people privately.
By 2007 Tom wrote his first book, Losing Weight When Diets Fail (Harbor Press), which led to his first national television interview. Tom quickly became a regular on-camera expert for Fox & Friends and NBC’s Today Show. He went on to host the A&E Network television series, Monster In-Laws, which aired on A&E in 2011. In 2012 Tom hosted the Food Network show, Can Dinner Save My Family, and the National Geographic Show, Hardcore Hobbies. In 2015 Tom hosted another A&E Network series, Surviving Marriage.
Presently, Tom is a main contributing expert for Fox News and NBC where he provides commentary and expert advice regarding mental health, screen addiction, parenting and personal performance. He travels the country lecturing.
Speaker Videos
EQ, IQ, and Neuroplasticity
Speech Topics
Disconnected: Parenting in the Age of Technology
There’s no denying the clear connection between overuse of devices—smartphones, computers and video games—and the growing mental health crisis, especially in our children. Too much screen time has a real, measurable effect on kids’ brains, self-esteem, emotional development and social skills.
This lecture presents a better way to move forward, offering indispensable advice for parents on setting boundaries and engaging in concentration and mindfulness exercises. If you want to reclaim your family and reconnect with your kids, this hard-hitting yet promising lecture is the place to start.
Raising Healthy Kids
Based on Tom’s best-selling book, Raising Healthy Teenagers, this lecture explores the lives of modern day children and the things parents need to do to ensure there mental, emotional and physical well-being. Practical and encouraging, this lecture helps parents understand the mental, physical and social toll the past few years have had on pre-teens and teens. Then it offers proven strategies to help your kids get back on a healthy path.
There’s No Such Thing as Luck
Luck is when persistence and opportunity meet. Based on Tom’s personal experience of childhood scarcity and hard-work, followed by vast success, this lecture will inspire anyone to go ahead and shoot for the stars. “Whether you think you can or think you can’t, either way you are right.”
Walking With a Lighter Step to Achieve Your Goals
Based on Tom’s breakthrough psychotherapy theory about mindful-presence, this lecture will give listeners the tools to start connecting thought to emotions and emotions to actions. Attendee’s will learn how “living in the now” can bring them anything they want later.
Walking With a Lighter Step to Reduce Stress
With our mind providing us with roughly 60,000 thoughts a day, most of which are rubbish, it’s no wonder that more and more people are overwhelmed and stressed. This talk will teach listeners the concept of mindful-presence to get in-tune with emotions and strike a powerful life balance.
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