Dr. Kim Lampson Awarded the Holsinger-Hartje Faculty Award for Excellence
Dr. J. Calvin Holsinger and his wife, Adena, both now deceased, endowed a cash prize for the Holsinger-Hartje Faculty Award for Excellence. The Northwest University faculty choose the recipient based on nominations from students, staff, and other faculty members. This year’s award for excellence in service goes to Kim Lampson.
From the time she was an undergraduate student at the University of New Hampshire, Dr. Lampson has felt drawn to the academic world and had a passion for working with college students. After receiving a Bachelor of Science in Higher Education Administration from UNH, she attended the University of Georgia where she completed a MEd in Student Personnel in Higher Administration, and then ultimately received her PhD in Counseling Psychology from the University of Washington.
Dr. Lampson grew up in Verona, New Jersey, a small town whose claim to fame is being next door to Montclair, the home of the Sopranos. Allured to the Pacific Northwest by a position at a university in Seattle, Dr. Lampson moved West and has never left. After graduating from UW, she left academia, married her husband, Dan, and worked as a psychologist with a full-time private practice. She and Dan have three children, three grandchildren, a cat, and a dog.
Dr. Lampson believes God brought her full circle in 2010 when she joined the PsyD faculty at NU as associate professor and director of clinical training. She had the honor of being promoted to full professor in 2014 and loves teaching her students about therapy and the world of psychology.
In 2011, Dr. Lampson and a group of PsyD students proposed the idea of a training clinic for graduate students at Northwest University and planted the seeds for what would later become NUhope Community Counseling Center. In 2016, Dr. Lampson became the director of NUhope, now the counseling center for NU students as well as a resource for the community that embodies the NU mission of empowered engagement with human need.
As a psychologist, she has also loved teaching and sharing what she has learned with students and colleagues, so has presented at many conferences, given webinars, been interviewed by the media, taught many classes, and written numerous articles and books including a textbook about nutrition therapy for eating disorders coauthored with her husband. She currently writes an online blog for Psychology Today magazine called “A Life of Nourishment.” Her most recent book, Therapy for Relationships with Eating Disorders, was published by Norton Professional Books in January and is the culmination of many years of work with people with eating disorders and with couples. Her latest projects include writing a chapter for the Gottman Marriage Clinic Casebook and working with the Gottman Institute to develop an online training for professionals in her field.
We express our congratulations to Dr. Lampson as she receives this honor.