what the path is like:

Individual Counseling with Kim

I work from what we call a narrative, person centered, and trauma informed approach. Essentially this means I’m excited to hear about your story, the relationships and systems in which you live, and how you fit in amongst them. In that process it’s important to me to incorporate embodiment and mindfulness work in order to help you access the present moment with depth and fullness. There is no one path or one right way of doing the work we do in therapy. While my work is inspired by certain perspectives and evidence-based practices, I always allow therapy to be what you need it to be and take the shape of the interpersonal therapeutic relationship that we develop together.

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therapist's philosophy defined

Counseling for stress, anxiety, and life transitions in Philadelphia

Holistic

Therapy is most helpful and sustainable when it considers who you are as a whole person, not just in reference to one feeling, one experience, or one event. Your physical health and abilities play a role in your mental health. Who you are as a member of your community, your workplace, your family and family of origin, and how you move through the world are all important parts of your mental well being.

Therapy for binge eating, anorexia, body image, self esteem, trauma, grief, life transitions

Embodied

We live much of our lives in our heads. For many of us, it becomes a safe place when our bodies feel unsafe, uncomfortable, or unworthy. However, it is in and through our bodies that we experience life. Our physical sensations, our guts, our whole being is just as much part of our mind and life as our metaphysical souls are. Not only will we dive in to the depth of work from your past, but we'll practice experiencing how emotions, trauma, and history still show up and affect you through your body in each day.

Counseling for eating disorders, trauma, stress, life transitions, anxiety, college aged

Mindfulness

Often when we are in our heads, where we really are is in the past or in the future. We dwell in the depths of emotion and refuse to accept things that have already come and gone, or we agonize in worry over what is still to come. In reality, all we have access to is the very moment we are in. It is through mindful observation, awareness, and participation in that present moment that we can find peace and love and joy. Mindfulness is not all about meditation and yoga (although those are also great!), it is about the way we engage in the world around us, rather than retreating always to the world inside of us.

Therapy in Chestnut Hill, Manayunk, Roxborough, King of Prussia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Dialectic

Dialectics, in this context, are the apparent contradictions and paradoxes we come across in our emotional experiences of life, like such moments when we can feel both joy and sadness about the same thing. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is all about the practice of being able to hold two distinct and apparently opposite things as true at once. A moment can be beautiful and painful. You can accept the way things are and strive to make changes. Life can be dreadfully hard and still worth living.