Dr. Nutt earned his PsyD from The Chicago School of Professional Psychology in Chicago, Illinois, an APA-accredited program. He has worked with clients across the lifespan, in diverse communities and settings.

His doctoral training included placements at a therapeutic (non-public) day school, an intensive outpatient program, and DePaul University’s community mental health center and Cities Mentor Program. Additionally, he completed a year-long supplemental practicum providing trauma-informed services to youth and families referred through Chicago’s Children’s Advocacy Center following allegations of abuse or neglect. He trained in and co-facilitated Hip Hop H.E.A.L.S. groups—an evidence-based, trauma-informed restorative intervention for youth based on best practices in addressing community violence exposure, developed through the University of Illinois at Chicago’s Urban Youth Trauma Center. His love for community, arts, and sports remained strong; he maintained connections by volunteering with local community partners and supported arts-based programming for youth around the city through The Simple Good.

Following his doctoral studies, he completed an APA-accredited internship and postdoctoral hours at Didi Hirsch Mental Health Services in Inglewood, California. In this setting, he provided weekly trauma-informed, culturally sensitive, and neurodiversity-affirming mental health services to children, adolescents, and families from racial and ethnic minorities, as well as communities impacted by social and economic marginalization. Alongside developing and co-facilitating several expressive arts-based groups, he provided psychological assessments, consulted with clinicians regarding assessment and IEPs, and engaged in outreach and advocacy in the community.

Upon relocating to Minnesota late in 2022, Dr. Nutt joined the team at a neurodiversity-affirming private practice part-time. Over the next two and a half years, he provided comprehensive assessments and mental health services to neurodivergent individuals in California and Minnesota, while also supporting the development of psychologists in training through supervision and consultation.

In late 2023, he accepted a position at the Midwest Children’s Resource Center, a Child Advocacy Center (CAC) housed within Children’s Minnesota. Here, he continued his passion for supporting individuals, families, and communities as they cope with and heal from trauma, as well as providing consultation and supervision to clinicians.

He is an adjunct faculty member at The Chicago School of Professional Psychology. Dr. Nutt has taught a variety of courses since 2021, both in person and virtually, to doctoral candidates in the Applied Clinical Psychology Program. These courses include Clinical Interviewing, Child and Adolescent Psychology, Trauma-Informed Care and Crisis Intervention, and Expressive Arts in Therapy.

With a commitment to providing quality mental health services, Dr. Nutt begins by understanding his clients’ lived experiences and values. He strives to collaborate with clients to integrate current best evidence, practice-based evidence, and clinical expertise in a way that is accessible and supports them toward their mental health goals. Therapy with uses two primary, often integrated, approaches to healing: top-down (cognitive, brain-based) and bottom-up (somatic, body-based).

Outside of work, you are most likely to find him listening to music or audiobooks, playing or watching soccer, stargazing, doodling, taking pictures, or wandering aimlessly while dreaming of snow. Dr. Nutt’s love for snow runs deep, and he remains committed to his yearly winter goal: to make one snow angel.