Kathy Bentley is a nationally recognized Parent Educator and the owner of Kathy's Parenting Solutions. She has her Bachelor's degree in Psychology and her Masters in Counseling Services. In 2004 Kathy was selected as one of the 12 Outstanding Parent Educators in North America by Parenting Press.

Kathy is a Gurian Institute Certified Trainer. She has completed the training to facilitate Parent Project as well as numerous other training.

Kathy is a member of the National Parenting Education Network and the National Association for the Education of Young Children, the National Council on Family Relations, and The Learning and Brain Society.

Kathy is a member of the Kaneohe Community Family Center Advisory Board, the Waianae Neighborhood Place Advisory Board and The Hawaii Coalition for Dads.

She is an annual presenter at the Hawaii Association for the Education of Young Children and the Hawaii Baptist Early Education Association Conferences. She has presented at the Native Hawaiian Education Association Conference, Hawaii State Child Abuse Conferences, HAEYC's Leadership symposiums, the Hawaii Statewide Family Summit, the Kamehameha Scholars Ho'ike, the Honolulu District PCNC staff development meeting, Pearl Harbor's Parent Academy and Schofield Barrack's Couples University. She presents workshops to preschools, elementary, middle and high schools, and other parent groups.

She has experience working with families with children of all ages, as well as incarcerated parents, military families, teen parents, grandparents, foster families and families involved with Child Protective Services. She has appeared as a parenting expert on numerous television and radio programs and has been interviewed for numerous newspaper and magazine articles and quoted in blog postings. She occasionally writes articles for Hawaii Parent Magazine.