kathryn den houter, ph.d.

Kathryn Den Houter, Ph.D. has been a teacher and a psychologist for the past forty-five years. Currently, she is retired and enjoying reading and writing the books she has pondered. The last thirty years of her professional life were spent in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This is where she raised her four children with her late husband Len. They lived in Lowell, Michigan, a small town east of Grand Rapids. Her wonderful children Jon, Jenna, Jess and Ben are embarking on their careers. Her early years were spent on the plains of southwest Minnesota. She was the second child in a family of seven. Her father was a lawyer in Luverne, Minnesota, and Dr. Den Houter published a book about him in 2016: Van: A Memoir of My Father. She graduated from Southwest Christian High School located in Edgerton, Minnesota in 1965 and went to Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan, graduating from there in 1969. Her teaching career started at South Middle School in Grand Rapids, and then, Beloit and Superior school districts in Wisconsin. After her year in Superior, she trained in the Montessori Method of education with Dr. Urban Fleege in Chicago, Illinois. It was while she was a Montessori Directress in Grand Rapids that she met her first husband, Leonard. He pursued a law degree in Lansing, Michigan, and at the same time, she completed her doctoral training at Michigan State University in psychology. They raised their family on a small hobby farm near Lowell, Michigan. They enjoyed raising and learning about many different animals. During that time, she began her practice as a psychologist in Grand Rapids, Michigan at Human Resource Associates and Christian Counseling Center. Currently, she is remarried and lives with her husband Jim in Indian River County, Florida during the winter and Leelanau County, Michigan during the summer. She plans to write several more books using historical fiction as her preferred genre. Kathryn welcomes questions or comments. Her email is kathryndenhouter@gmail.com.