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Dr. Kait迫降 joined Mount Mercy大学 as a full-time professor in 2023. She is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in Iowa City, Iowa.

Dr. Hutson owns two psychotherapy practices— Elevated Psychotherapy, PLC) and the 爱荷华州LGBTQ关系中心. She specializes in psychotherapeutic work with LGBTQ individuals and relational systems. The focus of her clinical practice and research is 宗教的创伤.

Dr. Hutson holds a Doctor of Philosophy degree from Mount Mercy in Marriage and Family Therapy with a concentration in neuroscience and psychophysiology and was awarded Mount Mercy’s Marriage and Family Therapy Program’s Most Outstanding Doctoral Student Award.

She graduated with a Bachelor of Science (Human 服务s, 心理学)2011年毕业于米利金大学, where she was awarded the Human Relations Award, 行为科学奖, and the university’s highest honor—The Scovill Prize.

Along with studying in the United States, she studied internationally as well. She studied in Ireland, focusing on international social work and education policy. She also studied abroad in Chile, focusing on social justice and the poetry of Pablo Neruda.

Dr. Hutson completed coursework in social policy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2011. She earned a Down Syndrome Specialist Certification in 2014 from the University of Missouri- St. Louis, concentrating on advocacy, inclusion, curriculum modifications, and behavioral strategies.

She has had extensive training in nonviolent crisis intervention and has advanced training specializing in nonviolent crisis intervention with individuals on the autism spectrum. She completed additional coursework in special education through Eastern Illinois University in 2014.

In 2018, she graduated from Mount Mercy with a Master of 艺术 degree in Marriage and Family Therapy. 她被命名为博士. Ashley Merritts Inaugural Doctoral Fellowship Recipient in 2018.

In 2020, she studied Nora Bateson’s transformative work on Warm Data at the International Bateson Institute.

Dr. Hutson is a Clinical Fellow of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT), a member of its Queer and Trans Advocacy Network, 和AAMFT批准的主管候选人. She is also an Associate Member of the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) and the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy.

Dr. Hutson is skilled in working with survivors of conversion therapy, 制度变革的努力, 宗教的创伤, 存在的问题, 复杂的心理创伤, 和创伤后应激障碍. She has presented at national conferences on LGBTQ concerns in psychotherapy, 包括宗教创伤和耻辱.

She is a qualitative researcher with academic interests in studying queer and trans-lived experiences, 精神暴力和依恋过程, 宗教的创伤, 系统理论, 和sociocybernetics.

Her professional experiences include nonprofit work, 社区精神健康设置, 私人执业. She has years of experience working with individuals with disabilities and their families. She also has experience in substance abuse counseling, 与性暴力幸存者一起工作, 危机的工作, 预防教育.

Dr. Hutson believes that healing happens in the context of a relationship. The therapeutic relationship is this extraordinary, transformative vessel for healing. She’s often in awe of how beautiful therapists' work truly is. There’s nothing like it in the world— and she wouldn’t trade it for anything.

Dr. 赫特森重视课堂的透明度. She’s open with her students about being a professor with ADHD. Being someone who has always learned differently, she knows it can be affirming for neurodivergent students to see the person teaching them can relate to what it means to move through the world with all the gifts and challenges of neurodivergence— navigating systems that aren’t designed for their minds to thrive. One of the most edifying experiences she has had as a teacher is when students who are neurodivergent tell her that they felt valued and understood by her.

许多其他的事情也使Dr. Hutson joy outside of connecting with students and being a professor and therapist. 她喜欢大山, 海洋, 天文台, massive libraries—anything that reminds her of how vast the universe is and how small she is in relationship to/with it. Adventures and trying new things also bring Kait fulfillment. Cooking for others is a love language passed down for generations in her family. She also adores great blues and jazz music, hosting, and discussing ideas. 她热衷于创造意义, asking big questions without attachment to specific answers, 和听力. Her love of listening reassures her that she picked the right field.