Psychiatry. License # 32822 Iowa
221 E College Street, STE 211,
Iowa City, IA 52240
(866) 425-8066
https://eastwindhealingcenter.com/practitioners/kerri-husman-2/vitality-psychiatry/
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Dr. Husman has been practicing psychiatry independently since 1999, completing board certification in psychiatry in 2001 and child and adolescent psychiatry in 2002. She then spent 4 years working in East Central Iowa completing her assignment with the National Health Service Corps, followed by serving 15 years as a partner at Cedar Centre Psychiatric Group, providing both inpatient and outpatient care. She joined Eastwind Healing Center in 2020, drawing upon a wide range of experiences over the past decades, and she knows what services work well in her hands and what populations she feels best equipped to serve. Her focus is working with women and children and LGBTQIA+ individuals ages 6-64 with anxiety, trauma, and pain conditions. 

Dr. Husman is certified in Comprehensive Energy Psychology, Holographic Memory Resolution, Acceptance and Integration Training, clinical hypnosis with ASCH, and Pain Reprocessing Therapy. She is a certified Neurodynamic breathwork facilitator, Certified International Health Coach and Certified Trauma-Informed Coach. She also is a certified psychedelic assisted therapy provider and provides ketamine for treatment resistant conditions in the office. These tools promote relaxation in various ways, can assist in providing proof of safety, and allow for changes to occur at the unconscious level. Self-compassion training, self-guided imaginal exposure, cognitive reframing, empty chair Gestalt technique, many Ericksonian techniques, and resetting or clearing the mind-body though tapping and other means are all components in use, and these tools can be used together as is called upon to provide a unique experience for the patient. These tools, taken as a whole, are best used for the treatment of all types of anxiety and trauma, in addition to Tourette’s, stuttering, ADHD, and depression and chronic pain.

Sometimes, our best cognitive intentions are thwarted by our unconscious mind frozen in all those moments of shame, regret, anger, humiliation, fear, and the like. Sometimes our judge and critic will step in to stop us from forward progress. This is being human! Homework is often involved, and unwillingness to do personal homework will typically result in slower recovery, so she will work with the patient on blocks to this as well. It is a team effort! In hypnotherapy, she agrees with the sentiment that all hypnosis is self-hypnosis, and she will create recordings to support the patient in mastering this capacity. In essence, moving away from the hypnosis of dissociation and fight/flight/freeze/fawn, to a new capacity of empowered self-regulation. Dr. Husman facilitates processing gently, and most often indirectly, so the patient is comfortably in control of the process.

Please be aware that because of working with the unconscious, memories of traumatic events may fade, meaning not only the emotional charge. If you are involved in a legal proceeding related to a past traumatic event, you may wish to discuss working with the unconscious with your attorney before proceeding.