
Kat Houghton PhD
Bringing Innovative Technology to Behavioral Research | Digital Therapeutics | TED Speaker
This is a story about digital tech disrupting the way mental health is accessed and delivered.
Kat founded ilumivu to help mental health clinicians and researchers support real-time behavioral interventions.
ilumivu has 10,000 current users.
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- Mental Health & Wellness
- 📍 Asheville, NC
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Kat is fascinated by the intersection of technology and psychology. She is actively engaged in designing and testing systems to facilitate positive behavior change in a variety of populations. She co-founded ilumivu in 2009 (ilumivu.com) to provide software systems to researchers and clinicians to capture human data and deliver just-in-time interventions.
She spent 15 years working with over 900 families with children with autism on four continents. She earned a PhD in Psychology designing, delivering and testing autism parent training programs for underserved communities including those in the Bronx, NY, Argentina and Poland. Ilumivu's first software service was for parents of children with autism to track symptom change and treatment use in an online HIPAA compliant, sharable platform.
Since then ilumivu has provided web, mobile and wearable systems to researchers and clinicians working with a wide range of populations including substance abuse, suicide, anxiety and depression. They are committed to finding innovative and effective ways to use everyday technology to improve the daily life experience of the millions of people who suffer with mental health issues.
Kat is also very engaged in local environmental activism bringing Community Rights and the Rights of Nature to the City of Asheville through a nonprofit she co-founded, Community Roots (cmroots.com). She also leads wilderness Rites of Passage ceremonies to help people through challenging times.
Links to media appearances (podcasts, TV, articles, etc.): TedX - The Rights of Nature: Revolutionizing our Relationship with the More-than-Human World.
https://www.ted.com/talks/kat_houghton_the_rights_of_nature

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Kat Houghton PhD
Bringing Innovative Technology to Behavioral Research | Digital Therapeutics | TED Speaker
- Podcast Pro
- Mental Health & Wellness
- SaaS
- 📍 Asheville, NC
This is a story about digital tech disrupting the way mental health is accessed and delivered.
Kat founded ilumivu to help mental health clinicians and researchers support real-time behavioral interventions.
ilumivu has 10,000 current users.
read more
Kat is fascinated by the intersection of technology and psychology. She is actively engaged in designing and testing systems to facilitate positive behavior change in a variety of populations. She co-founded ilumivu in 2009 (ilumivu.com) to provide software systems to researchers and clinicians to capture human data and deliver just-in-time interventions.
She spent 15 years working with over 900 families with children with autism on four continents. She earned a PhD in Psychology designing, delivering and testing autism parent training programs for underserved communities including those in the Bronx, NY, Argentina and Poland. Ilumivu's first software service was for parents of children with autism to track symptom change and treatment use in an online HIPAA compliant, sharable platform.
Since then ilumivu has provided web, mobile and wearable systems to researchers and clinicians working with a wide range of populations including substance abuse, suicide, anxiety and depression. They are committed to finding innovative and effective ways to use everyday technology to improve the daily life experience of the millions of people who suffer with mental health issues.
Kat is also very engaged in local environmental activism bringing Community Rights and the Rights of Nature to the City of Asheville through a nonprofit she co-founded, Community Roots (cmroots.com). She also leads wilderness Rites of Passage ceremonies to help people through challenging times.
Links to media appearances (podcasts, TV, articles, etc.): TedX - The Rights of Nature: Revolutionizing our Relationship with the More-than-Human World.
BOOK NOW FOR your podcast
Kat Houghton PhD
Bringing Innovative Technology to Behavioral Research | Digital Therapeutics | TED Speaker
- Influencer
- Podcast Pro
- 📍 Asheville, NC
This is a story about digital tech disrupting the way mental health is accessed and delivered.
Kat founded ilumivu to help mental health clinicians and researchers support real-time behavioral interventions.
ilumivu has 10,000 current users.
read more
Kat is fascinated by the intersection of technology and psychology. She is actively engaged in designing and testing systems to facilitate positive behavior change in a variety of populations. She co-founded ilumivu in 2009 (ilumivu.com) to provide software systems to researchers and clinicians to capture human data and deliver just-in-time interventions.
She spent 15 years working with over 900 families with children with autism on four continents. She earned a PhD in Psychology designing, delivering and testing autism parent training programs for underserved communities including those in the Bronx, NY, Argentina and Poland. Ilumivu's first software service was for parents of children with autism to track symptom change and treatment use in an online HIPAA compliant, sharable platform.
Since then ilumivu has provided web, mobile and wearable systems to researchers and clinicians working with a wide range of populations including substance abuse, suicide, anxiety and depression. They are committed to finding innovative and effective ways to use everyday technology to improve the daily life experience of the millions of people who suffer with mental health issues.
Kat is also very engaged in local environmental activism bringing Community Rights and the Rights of Nature to the City of Asheville through a nonprofit she co-founded, Community Roots (cmroots.com). She also leads wilderness Rites of Passage ceremonies to help people through challenging times.
Links to media appearances (podcasts, TV, articles, etc.): TedX - The Rights of Nature: Revolutionizing our Relationship with the More-than-Human World.
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ilumivu : What we do
Timeline
Mar 2009 - current
ilumivu – Co-founder and CEO
ilumivu is changing the way we do behavioral research and deliver interventions.
We offer mobile, web and wearable systems that engage participants in continuous behavioral monitoring and offer a channel for just-in-time adaptive interventions.
Mar 2017 - current
Community Roots – Executive Director
Leading a volunteer run nonprofit to establish Community Rights and the Rights of Nature in the just and equitable transition to 100% renewable energy. CMRoots.com
2000 - 2007
The Option Institute and Autism Treatment Center of America – Autism Consultant
Employed and trained to offer a relationship-based approach to children with autism. I worked directly with children, one-on-one and coached parents to change their interaction style. I also recruited professionals, coordinated the professional training program and ran a research program into their methods.
2000 - 2007
📚 PhD in Psychology – Lancaster University, UK
Bringing evidence-based, parent-mediated, child-centered intervention programs to families with autism is underserved communities – including The Bronx, NY, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Oman and Poland. Designed, implemented and tested training programs for parents of children with autism to enable them to play with their children in a manner that increases social-emotional development. Program design and testing informed by complex systems theory as an alternative to traditional reductionist research methods.
Ask me
What do you see as the mental health implications of the COVID-19 pandemic? And what can be done to mitigate them? |
In what ways is mobile technology being used to improve mental wellness? |
How have traditional research methods failed to dramatically improve our mental wellness? |
What’s happening at the intersection of technology and behavior change? |
How can my mobile phone help improve my mental health? |
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