Fran Hutchinson Has Come Full Circle

In 1976, she received a Bachelors in Social Work and began working in the mental health field. Her experience was challenging because the work involved the first phase of a government program called 'deinstitutionalization'… closing state mental hospitals and moving patients into less restrictive environments. Fran's job was to work directly with the hospital staff, the patients and their families, group home facilities and rehabilitation programs to coordinate this major transition.


Fran moved to Florida in 1978. Her next twenty years were spent working in a variety of careers …among those were several sales and marketing jobs, promotional work for artists in the music industry and ownership of a catamaran sailing charter business. She also traveled extensively and lived outside of the United States for five years.

After returning to the United States, Fran wanted to recapture her original passion. She got her Masters in Social Work and began working in the mental health field where she has been for the past nine years. She works with those clients that long ago would have been placed in state mental hospitals but now are in less restrictive environments. She is a supervisor of two outpatient programs which are designed to help those with mental illness reclaim and live life to their full potential.

Fran has extensive experience helping individuals and their families struggling with and adapting to the challenges of mental illness such as schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, major depression and anxiety disorders. This has been accomplished through individual, group and family therapy. As a supervisor, she has also mentored and trained other professionals to achieve their aspirations.

After coming full circle, Fran now wants to use her diverse experiences to help people rediscover their strengths and find their passion.

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