Dr. Hutchinson is an experienced professional speaker and lecturer. Please see below for her most recent presentation in Athens, Greece on Self Compassion Techniques in Counseling (2018). She has presented at State, National, and International conferences in the field of counseling and psychotherapy. She has led workshops and trainings for over 25 years both within academia and business organizations. She combines both her previous business experience with her academic training to provide workshops and seminars to professional organizations, businesses, and community agencies.
She has served as an Assistant Professor at several universities in the field of counseling and her areas of expertise include mental health topics. These include trauma-informed care, post-traumatic growth and resilience, and narcissistic abuse and recovery in relationships and families. For example, as an invited speaker at universities presentations have included topics such as wellness-related techniques for stress and anxiety, meditation, mindfulness, trauma/PTSD, emotional trauma, yoga, and positive psychology. Please see below for examples of professional presentations:
Mental Health/Positive Psychology Presentations and Workshops
- Cultivating positive emotions through loving-kindness meditation: New Orleans, Louisiana.
- Gratitude: Research and techniques for overall well-being. Orlando, Florida.
- Gratitude as a transformative practice: Benefits for clients and counselors. San Diego, California.
- Group dynamics: Team building in your business. Rochester, New York.
- Positive psychology, gratitude, and the counseling profession. New Orleans, Louisiana.
- The power of positive emotions. Heidelberg, Germany
- Positive psychology and gratitude: Implications to mental health counseling. Charlotte, North Carolina.
- Post-traumatic stress: ABC Interview, Fort Myers Morning Show Interview.
Professional Trainings University/Community Agencies
- Anger Management: Respond versus react. Rochester, New York.
- Benefits of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT): Mindfulness. Rochester, New York.
- Gratitude: Implications to mental health counseling. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- The art and science of loving-kindness meditation: New Orleans, Louisiana.
- Positive psychology and the counseling profession. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
- Treatments for post-traumatic stress: Arlington, Virginia.
- Treating bereavement with spiritually-based interventions: Helping clients achieve spiritual growth. San Diego, California.
- Working with challenging clinical populations: Strategies for wellness. San Francisco, California.