Kimber R. Olson is a member of the CMBM Supervision Team.
With over 30 years of experience working with and for Tribal Nations and communities, including 15 years providing training and technical assistance, Kimber brings a strengths-based perspective to her interactions with others. She has previous experience as a Head Start Family Advocate, Mental Health Consultant and Director, a Tribal CCDF Administrator, a Tribal Child Protection Case Worker, and faculty for the Northwest Indian College. Kimber works to ensure that collaboration efforts include equity, culture, and a population-specific focus that recognizes the knowledge and experience base of the participants involved.
Kimber holds a master’s degree in Social Work, a PhD in Psychology, and certificates in Inclusive Leadership, Change Management, Trauma-Informed Care and Counseling, Somatic Archaeology ©, Indigenous Cultural Competency and Trauma-Informed Training, Wholistic Healing Practices and Decolonizing Trauma, and Alaska Indigenous Research. She is an Embodied Resiliency Educator, a Certified Mindfulness Meditation Teacher, and a Trauma-Conscious Yoga Teacher (RYT-200, MYT-100, TCYM), and is trained in Advanced Trauma-Informed Mindfulness. Kimber’s PhD Dissertation is titled, “Inviting the Sacred Wound into Circle: Re-Storying An Indigenous Mind-Body Medicine Framework for Healing.” She collaborated with 14 co-researchers at CMBM, who had significant lived experience, to complete her research. You can find her at Juniper & Pine Consulting, where she serves as a Master Facilitator, supporting Indigenous communities.
Kimber grew up living a subsistence lifestyle in her homeland and waters of Homer, Alaska, in the 1970s and ‘80s.