Who is Trina

Trina Rhea Petrash

Speaker | Author | Business Leader | Pastor

Trina Petrash is a Biblical Counselor, ordained pastor, and Combat Veteran who knows firsthand the transforming power of God’s grace and mercy. With a Bachelor of Science in Behavioral Science (University of New Hampshire) and a Master’s in Professional Counseling (Liberty University), she brings over two decades of ministry, counseling, and leadership experience to her speaking and teaching.

Trina served for 15 years as a co-pastor alongside her husband Dave, where she preached, led women’s groups, and walked alongside those experiencing grief, anxiety, trauma, and relational struggles. She has extensive training, including certification in the Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), DiSC Personality Profile, Critical Incident Stress Management, and the Gottman Method of couples’ therapy. Before entering ministry, she spent 20 years serving in the U.S. Army and New Hampshire National Guard, working in leadership training, conflict resolution and family readiness support. She also deployed to Iraq as a Chemical Officer in 2004 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

A spiritual mother at heart, Trina has a unique gift of encouragement and a passion for helping women find healing, courage, and identity in Christ. Whether at a women’s conference, church retreat, or leadership event, she creates a safe and inspiring space where women feel seen, known, and equipped to live boldly in their God-given calling.

Her favorite role, however, is being “Grammie”  - delighting in the next generation while investing deeply in the one before her.

Topics Trina highlights in her Keynote Addresses:

Title:  Bearing One Another’s Burdens Without Owning Each Other’s Junk 

How to love people well without fixing, rescuing, or taking ownership of what was never ours to carry

Keynote Overview‍ ‍

We all want to help the people we love. But sometimes what looks like compassion is actually control, anxiety, pride, or discomfort in disguise.

In this keynote, Trina Petrash explores the tension between truly bearing one another’s burdens and wrongly taking ownership of someone else’s struggle. Drawing from Galatians 6:1–5, she offers a practical and deeply honest framework for recognizing when support becomes overreach, when care becomes control, and when our desire to “help” is really about easing our own discomfort.

With warmth, humor, biblical insight, and real-life application, Trina invites audiences to examine their motives, listen more deeply, and learn how to come alongside others with gentleness rather than pressure. This message is especially powerful for leaders, caregivers, parents, ministry teams, counselors, and anyone who regularly finds themselves carrying more than God asked them to carry.

Title: Surrender Brings Peace: A Mother’s Day Message for Everyone‍ ‍

Keynote Overview‍ ‍

Mother’s Day carries a wide range of emotions—joy, grief, longing, gratitude, and everything in between. In this deeply personal and relatable message, Trina Petrash explores the story of Hannah in 1 Samuel and invites listeners to reflect on their own “ache”—the thing they long for most.

Through honest storytelling and biblical insight, this message challenges the cultural mindset of “I deserve” and replaces it with a transformative truth: everything in our lives is a gift to be stewarded, not possessed.

Listeners will discover:

  • How unmet desires reveal deeper spiritual longings

  • The difference between control and surrender

  • Why striving leads to exhaustion—and surrender leads to peace

  • How to reframe relationships, roles, and identity through stewardship

  • The connection between surrender and the heart of the Gospel

This message is not just for mothers—it’s for anyone navigating longing, identity, control, or trust.

Key takeaway: When we release what we were never meant to control, we step into the peace we were always meant to experience. 

Title:  Time to Change Your Filter

Keynote Overview‍ ‍

Time to Change Your Filter explores how our past experiences shape the way we interpret people, situations, and even God Himself. Using the powerful analogy of a car air filter, Trina reveals how emotional and spiritual “filters” can become clogged with pain, assumptions, and false beliefs—leading to anxiety, offense, and disconnection.

This message invites listeners to examine the lens through which they see the world and challenges them to replace faulty filters with the truth of God’s Word. Through Scripture and practical application, participants will learn how to:

  • Identify distorted thinking patterns

  • Break cycles of offense and mistrust

  • Align their thoughts with Philippians 4:8

  • Experience greater peace through reliance on the Holy Spirit

Ultimately, this keynote offers a hopeful and actionable path toward living with clarity, trust, and Christ-centered peace.

LYMI (Love You Mean It)

Oh, and for my contact information you can use  trina.lymi@gmail.com 

Personal Life

Trina lives in Southern Arizona with her husband, Dave - her partner in both business and ministry. Together, they share a passion for leadership, faith, and investing in people, while enjoying time with their children, grandchildren, and community.