Maria C. Crouch, PhD

Maria Christina Crouch (Deg Hit'an and Coahuiltecan), PhD, is a clinical-community psychologist and an Assistant Professor Adjunct at Yale School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry. Her program of research is at the intersection of trauma-informed care, evidence-based practice, and practice-based evidence (Indigenous approaches) to address alcohol and drug misuse and social determinants of health among American Indian and Alaska Native communities from a cultural, strengths-based approach. 

 

 

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Tina Woods, PhD

Tina Woods is Unungax (Aleut) originally from Saint Paul Island, Alaska, and Chamorro from the Island of Guam. She is a licensed Clinical-Community psychologist with a Rural Indigenous Emphasis from the Universities of Alaska Anchorage, and Fairbanks and currently the Senior Director of Community & Behavioral Services for Central Council Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. She respectfully blends both Western science and Indigenous practices based on teachings from Elders. Dr. Woods brings ‘lived experience’ and leverages such experience in combination with science for teaching others about trauma informed care. Dr. Woods is passionate about holding space for helping people heal themselves through culturally responsive treatment. In her spare time, she loves to stay active, travel, eat good food and spending time with her husband, children, and grandbaby.

 

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Jacy Hutchinson, PhD

Dzaanh nezoonh (hello)! My name is Jacy Hutchinson. I was born and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska and spent summers with my family at fish camp on the Yukon River in the village of Rampart. I am of mixed heritage, which includes Koyukon Dené (Athabascan) on my mother’s side and Central European on my father’s. I now live and work in the homelands of the Dena’ina Athabascan in Anchorage. I completed my doctorate in Clinical-Community psychology from UAA in 2022 and am working as a psychologist at Aleutian Pribilof Island’s Association. My research has focused on exploring Alaska Native cultural identity and internalized oppression and resistance among the Alaska Native population.

 

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Rebecca Ipiaqruk Young, PhD

Haluuġivsi (Iñupiatun/hello), my name is Rebecca Ipiaqruk Young; I am Iñupiaq and a second- generation Cuban American raised on the land of the Dena’ina (Anchorage, AK). I live on the land of the Coastal Salish, Duwamish People. I am a clinical-community psychologist and a rehabilitation psychology postdoctoral fellow at the University of Washington. I identify as a lifespan clinician-scientist interested in providing neuro-rehabilitative care for people who have experienced life-changing physical trauma. As an Indigenous community psychologist, I walk alongside Relatives living in urban and rural communities and shine on the everlasting strength of ancestors and traditional practices (ceremony, stories, songs, and dance) as restorative, healing, and liberating ways of being for our People.

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