Kim, a Licensed Clinical Social Worker, has extensive experience working with trauma survivors who struggle to regulate themselves and their relationships. She uses warmth, humor, authenticity and transparency to help clients feel seen and heard without judgment. Kim makes sure to get to know clients, listening to every part of their experience and recognizing their cultural, spiritual, and social communities. She utilizes psychodynamic, cognitive, EMDR, and family systems approaches to help clients give words and meaning to their lived experience. After understanding their current symptoms and struggles, 

Kim assists clients in finding where the issues first began and helping heal those previous wounds to empower clients in present day. She views therapy as a place for clients to gain insight, manage their emotional experience and improve their social interactions. Kim is queer affirming and passionate about supporting individuals struggling with their mental health, gender identity issues, religious trauma, and intersectionality. 

While growing up in Oak Park, IL, Kim developed a passion for diversity and inclusion for BIPOC and queer communities. Kim recognizes the social, political, and economic impact on these marginalized communities and how it plays a role within a client’s day to day experiences. Kim’s personal mission is to help each client feel heard, seen and feel they are not alone in this fight for social justice and equality.

Approach

• helping clients emotionally regulate through Dialectic Behavioral Therapy and Parts Work

• guiding clients in emotional awareness and insight through Family Systems Theory, EMDR, and Narrative Therapy

• assisting clients in behavioral modification through values work, strength based approaches, and assertiveness training

Education and Experience

Kim attended the University of Rochester for her bachelor’s degree in Psychology and returned to Chicago for her master’s degree in Social Work from Loyola University Chicago.