Who.
Dr. Kimby Shult Hughes
EdD, LMFT, CCISM
Dr. Kimby Shult Hughes (she/her) is a highly-sensitive empath with a heart for wholistic care, proactive collaboration, and social justice. In all she does, she aims to connect meaningfully with others to promote resiliency through a trauma-aware lens. Currently, Kimby works professionally as a mental health clinician, educator, presenter/trainer, and collegiate volleyball coach.
Kimby is the wife of a first responder and proud mom of two thoughtful and insightful kids who teach and grow her daily. She loves to travel, be physically active, learn from others, soak up the sun, create art, make music, dance, meditate, and laugh. Kimby feels deeply, loves fully, and grounds herself in gratitude.
Mental Health Clinician.
Kimby is a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who has worked with individuals, couples, and families across the lifespan who have been impacted by various challenges such as: Traumatic stress, depression, anxiety related disorders, severe and persistent mental illness, grief/loss, neurodivergence, schizophrenia, personality disorders, interpersonal conflict, substance use/addiction, housing insecurity, and abuse/neglect. She has worked in outpatient, school, community recovery, and jail settings.
Educator/Teacher.
Kimby has worked in various capacities both facilitating her own classroom and supporting the work of other educators. She has worked in elementary, middle school, high school, and college settings. Most recently, she has taught the following undergraduate courses at a small liberal arts college: PSY 380 (Introduction to Psychotherapies), PSY 360 (Substance Use Assessment and Treatment), and PSY 386 (Psychological Assessment).
Presenter/Trainer.
Kimby has worked with a wide range of groups, schools, and agencies to facilitate trainings on various topics such as: Supporting Families Through the Pandemic, Trauma-Informed Teaching, Culturally Responsive Education, Ethical Decision Making Models, Mindfulness and Meditation, Neurodiversity and Sensory Processing Sensitivity, Crisis Response, Compassion Fatigue, Burnout, and Secondary Traumatic Stress, Cognitive Behavioral Intervention for Trauma in Schools, Race Based Traumatic Stress, Grief and Loss, and Promoting Resiliency for Helping Professionals.
Coach.
Kimby has coached youth volleyball, soccer, and basketball but has spent the bulk of her coaching career working with college students. She is passionate about seeing student athletes as “whole” people as she works to support them in mind, body, and spirit.