Practitioners

Aki Hughes-Polk, Chief Practitioner and COO

Aki Hughes Polk is a Minnesota Licensed Clinical Counselor and the Chief Practitioner at Clear Horizons, LLC. She comes to Clear Horizons with a wealth of highly relevant experience. Aki has provided services and has lead other therapists and practitioners in several progressive behavioral health settings, to include Laureate Hospital in Tulsa, OK, and three Minnesota based organizations to include Catholic Charities where she participated on the Diversity Committee and developed and facilitated workshops on diversity training. Aki has worked to implement Adult Rehabilitative Mental Health Services into community seetings.  For this and other purposes, she was a liaison between community organizations and state agencies in Minnesota.  She has also developed workshops in Anger Management as well as provided leadership and strategies on issues designed to close achievement gaps related to emotional health and well-being in communities of color. Aki continues to serve her community through providing high quality behavioral health services to Minneapolis, St. Paul, and the surrounding areas. Among Aki’s accomplishment in this area are her development of a Verbal and De-escalation workshop to assist those working in highly volatile, reactive situations; an Ethics and Professional Boundaries workshop for those working in the behavioral health profession; Chemical Dependency Education for behavioral health professional; and other trainings for those in the Behavioral Health profession. She has attended enrichment training at the University of Minnesota, and is a Doctoral Candidtate in Clinical Psychology. Aki has been previously licensed in the state of Texas as a Social Worker and has licenses and certifications in the state of Minnesota as a Licensed Professional Counselor, a License Professional Clinical Counselor, and as a Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner.  Aki is a member of the American Psychological Association and the American Counseling Association.  She has also been accepted as a member of the Psi Chi International Honor Society.