Corey Hudson

MSW Intern

 

After nearly twenty years in the culinary industry, Corey entered the human services field through the door of peer support. Harnessing his lived experiences to build therapeutic partnerships with those he worked with, Corey’s work has included many vulnerable populations ranging from veterans, individuals experiencing homelessness, developmental and physical disabilities, substance use disorders, co-occurring disorders or diagnoses, and individuals in crisis. He has worked in a variety of settings ranging from alternatives to psychiatric hospitalization, transitional supportive housing, in-home substance use treatment, and community-based programs, while also using hybrid approaches to delivering services throughout Connecticut. He has worked as a peer support specialist, a recovery advisor, a wellness coordinator, a training coordinator and manager, a program manager, and a program director over the last ten years.

 

His decision to gain his undergraduate degree and graduate degree from the University Of Louisville’s Kent School of Social Work was inspired by his desire to have more tools, resources, education, and capacity to work with individuals in ways that helped improve outcomes on not only an individual level but also within their families, communities and the structural systems that they operate within.

 

Corey is due to graduate with his MSW degree in the spring of 2025 and chose to fulfill his graduate internship with Circle Care Center because it aligns with his desires to serve his community by working with fellow individuals who identify within the LGBTQIA+ spectrum and to be a partner in reducing stigma, improving access to quality, gender-affirming, sex-positive and trauma-informed care, that helps to promote social justice, wellbeing, equity, equality and opportunity for all to participate in their development and growth. He has been a Connecticut resident for over twenty-five years, residing in the New Haven area, and more recently Hartford. In both his personal and professional life, holistic, wellness and alternative-based approaches to treatment, healing, and recovery have been at the core of his practices, while also integrating a clinical understanding, evidence-based practices, and interventional approaches that are rooted in human-centered, trauma-informed, and strengths-based models of care, that build upon a therapeutic partnership, collaboration, autonomy and self-efficacy.

 

Regardless of what your therapeutic goals or interests might be, Corey will meet you where you are, engage you as the expert of your own experiences, and partner with you to explore where you have been, where you are, where you’d like to be and help to facilitate a strategy and plan to get there, offering compassionate support and guidance along the way.