Aaron Mitchum

11508 Hadley St Overland Park KS 66210

Phone: 913-488-0082 | Email: aaronmitchum@gmail.com

EDUCATION

Master of Arts Counseling

Mid-America Nazarene University, Olathe, KS, CACREP accredited

Bachelor of Arts in Biblical Studies

Mid-America Nazarene University, Olathe, KS

Certificate of Psychoanalysis

Brookhaven Institute for Psychoanalysis And Christian Theology, Allentown, PA

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS

Licensed Clinical Professional Counselor, Private Practice, Overland Park, KS

Maintain an ongoing psychoanalytic psychotherapy group practice for individuals, couples and families.

Provide mentorship and supervision for post-graduate licensed clinicians

Guest Lecturer, Mid-America Nazarene University, Olathe, KS

Occasionally being called on to lecture on faith integration and counseling to the Spiritual Formation Track students in the graduate school of counseling.

Guest Counselor, Mid-America Nazarene University, Olathe, KS

Conducted a six-week interpersonal group in the summer of 2015 and 2016. The group consists of counseling graduate students who are concurrently learning how to conduct group counseling themselves.

Adjunct Professor, Mid-America Nazarene University, Olathe, KS

Spring Semester, 2016, teaching the undergraduate course of History and Systems of Psychology

PREVIOUS PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Group Counselor, Lutheran High School, Kansas City, MO

Co-Leading a small group of high schoolers in processing emotions and thoughts around body image

Worship Leader, Trinity Lutheran Church, Shawnee, KS

Curating, orchestrating and leading weekly and feast day congregational music

Worship Leader, Hillcrest Covenant Church, Prairie Village KS

Curating, orchestrating and leading weekly and feast day congregational music

Editorial Director, Barefoot Publishing, Kansas City, MO

Editing and posting online material as well as project managing print ma- terial for Immerse: A Journal of Faith, Life and Youth Ministry

Teen Staff Director/Worship Leader/Curriculum Developer and Editor, Youth- front, Kansas City, KS

Mentoring and lay-counseling adolescence, developing and editing middle school and high school camp curriculum and experiences.

EDUCATIONAL TRAINING EXPERIENCE

M.A. Counseling Internship, Resonate Relationship Clinic (May 2013 - May 2014) M.A. Counseling Internship, Serenity Life Resource Center (May 2013 – May 2014)

PUBLICATIONS

Mitchum, A. (2010). Bleed Out: Stories of Christ Like Compassion. Kansas City, MO: Nazarene Publishing House.

Folmsbee, C., Mitchum, A. (2011). Prayer. Bloom Books: Everyday Practices For A Flourishing Faith. Kansas City, MO: Barefoot Publishing.

Folmsbee, C., Mitchum, A. (2011). Fasting. Bloom Books: Everyday Practices For A Flourishing Faith. Kansas City, MO: Barefoot Publishing.

Folmsbee, C., Mitchum, A. (2011). Study. Bloom Books: Everyday Practices For A Flourishing Faith. Kansas City, MO: Barefoot Publishing.

Folmsbee, C., Mitchum, A. (2011). Solitude. Bloom Books: Everyday Practices For A Flourishing Faith. Kansas City, MO: Barefoot Publishing.

Folmsbee, C., Mitchum, A. (2011). Journaling. Bloom Books: Everyday Practices For A Flourishing Faith. Kansas City, MO: Barefoot Publishing.

Mitchum, A. (2011). Pleasures of the Imagination. Immerse: A Journal of Faith, Life

and

Youth Ministry, 1, 20-30.

INVITED PROFESSIONAL & ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS

Mitchum, A. Losing My Religion: Understanding and Recovering from Religious Trauma. Christ Community Church. 2022. Kansas City, MO

Mitchum, A. What’s Right With Me? A Psychobiological Understanding of Emotional Problems and Health. Christ Church Anglican. 2021. Overland Park KS

Mitchum, A. The Forward Edge: working with emergent expressions of health in an inter-subjective therapeutic context to cultivate change. The Greater Kansas City and Topeka Psychoanalytic Center. 2020. Overland Park, KS.

Mitchum, A., Zang, C. Bottoms Up: A Somatically Informed Self Psychological/ Relational Approach. The Christian Association for Psychological Studies conference 2020. Atlanta, GA.

Bland, E., Mitchum, A. Tilting At Windmills: Faith and Mistrust in the Process of Trans formation. The Christian Association for Psychological Studies conference 2019. Dallas, TX.

Kuhnhausen, B., Mitchum, A. Sacrament of Story, Song and Laughter: A Dynamic and Relational Exploration of Comedy, Film and Music in Therapeutic Encounter.

The Christian Association for Psychological Studies conference 2018. Virginia Beach, VA.

Vogel, M., Mitchum, A. Rethinking the SelfObject: Holy Spirit, Boundaries & Virtues. The Christian Association for Psychological Studies conference 2017. Chica- go, IL.

Mitchum, A., Bland, E. Getting Closer: Playing, Boundaries & Connection in Psychotherapy. The Christian Association for Psychological Studies confer- ence 2016. Pasadena, CA.

Mitchum, A., Wood, G. 2016. Empathy in the Workplace. Employee 3

Education at A.B.May Heating & Cooling. Kansas City, MO.

Mitchum, A., Russell, B. 2015, April. Use of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology &

Attachment

Theory in the Treatment of Sexual Addiction & Other Harmful Behaviors. Con- tinuing Education Unit Seminar. Mental Health America of the Heartland. Kansas City, KS.

Mitchum, A. 2015, February, March. Good Enough Parenting: Love and the Shaping Power of Relationships. Presented to parents at Church of the Resurrection, Leawood, KS.

Mitchum, A. Almond, J. Shanks, J. Soukuup, J. Burford, D. Pappas, R. Jones, R. Hartke, J. Miles, R. 2014. Forgiveness. Mid-America Nazarene Masters in Arts Counseling Capstone Project presentation, Kansas City, KS.

CREDENTIALS

Licensed Professional Counselor,

State of Kansas: 2560

MEMBERSHIPS

American Counseling Association: Inactive

Christian Association for Psychological Studies: Member

Society for the Exploration of Psychoanalytic Therapies & Theology: Member

American Psychological Association: Division 39: Inactive

Chi Sigma Iota: Inactive