I'm Kim. I love metaphor, the magic of words, and seeking out beautiful things.
I also love getting the opportunity to walk beside my clients as they work through this journey of healing and restoration. I am honored to hold both the beauty and pain of life with someone until they are ready and able to hold it all on their own. Getting to encourage them as they move towards their feelings, work through their pain, and emerge into life that is full and embodied and reawakened. Walking through the practice of embracing rather than avoiding their anxieties, and the process of unlearning body hate and body shame in order to learn embodiment and oneness with their full being. The recovery from relationships with food that are full of guilt, secrets, and pain. Learning how to assert their own needs and have confidence in their own boundaries rather than striving endlessly to please the people around them at the cost of their Self.
The journey of therapy is not always easy; it may hurt more before it gets better. The process of releasing feelings which may have been packed down for years can be brutal. This is why it’s important to have someone who can meet you where you are and offer a safe space to unload. I always aim to be what the best therapists are to me: open, nonjudgmental, curious, and kind. I hope you'll find that therapy is that safe space where you can feel seen and heard- even if that idea feels a bit too vulnerable to start.
The clients I work with have a wide array of life experience, and generally the reason they sought out therapy opens up new paths of self-discovery. I have the honor of working with clients through their eating disorders and anxiety, body image, grief, stress, people pleasing, life transitions, self worth, religious trauma, family or relationship conflicts, depression, and finding a sense of self.
My clients, regardless of their reason for seeking a counselor, all joined me when they reached a point in their journey where they realized they did not want to continue on the path they had been following. They spent long enough feeling like they were too much and yet never enough. They recognized it was time for a change even if they didn’t know how, or if it was even possible, for that change to begin. They began to ask the bold question: what if it didn’t have to be this way? They are intelligent, funny, kind, creative, courageous, and determined. And when they are willing to sit with the discomfort of the challenging work, they find the strength, skills, and support they need to move forward on a new road.
Entirely remote, online services hosted on a HIPAA compliant platform to fit counseling in to your schedule and your own safe and sacred spaces.
No matter your size, shape, preference, identity, or quirky personality, you are all welcome here. I advocate for Health At Every Size (HAES), the queer community, and the right to be who you are.
Pre Licensed Counseling: Kim Houghton, MA (she/her)
Anxiety, Eating Disorder, and Trauma Therapy in Philadelphia Pennsylvania.
Serving the towns of Horsham, Upper Gwynedd, Lower Gwynedd, North Wales, Lansdale, Hatfield, Blue Bell, Doylestown, Chestnut Hill, Manayunk, Roxborough, Whissahickon, King of Prussia, West Chester, Pittsburgh, and nearby towns with eating disorder and anxiety therapy.
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