Featured Speakers

Kelly Curtis-Hughes is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, who works as an early childhood mental health therapist in San Diego, working with infants and children ages 0-5 as well as their families. She holds a Master’s of Science degree in Counseling with an Emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy, from San Diego State University, as well as the designation of a Registered Play Therapist. Kelly works at KidSTART, an award winning transdisciplinary Infant Family Early Child Mental Health Treatment Program, at Rady Children’s Hospital. The KidSTART program works with the most complex children aged 0-5, and their families. These children have a multitude of diagnostic possibilities, which include not only mental health concerns, but also, developmental, medical, and/or familial complexity. Kelly’s specialties include infant and early childhood mental health, trauma, parenting, and perinatal mental health. Kelly provides dyadic and family therapy utilizing therapy modalities of Child-Parent Psychotherapy, Trauma Assessment Pathway model, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, with play therapy and attachment-based techniques.