Grace Kim (she/her)

Women’s reproductive health and unique pressures women face can greatly impact your emotions, ambitions, and confidence. You may be stressed by the demands of being a mom or struggle with emotions influenced by perinatal and postpartum hormones. Perhaps you're burdened by challenges you face as a professional, such as harassment and undermining. In therapy, you have a safe space to examine your needs, learn to assert your voice, and give yourself the emotional safety and acceptance you long for.

Traumatic experiences greatly impact your understanding of safety, trust, intimacy, control, and self-esteem. As a result, you may struggle to maintain healthy relationships and find yourself in a cycle of shame and emotional disconnect. Through therapy, you can understand your triggers and ineffective patterns with compassion and learn to relate with yourself and others in a more balanced manner. You will also develop skills to reduce anxiety, manage emotions, and attain peace.

Due to anxiety and fear, you may find yourself bogged down by the constant worry of the future, particularly, all that can go wrong, which leaves you feeling down, unable to enjoy the present, and stuck. Perhaps you feel discouraged by the critical voices that impact your ability to perform at your greatest capacity. By developing self-compassion and confidence in therapy, you can more effectively tackle your responsibilities and gain the peace you search for.

If you have found that your life has gotten smaller and smaller, while avoidance has gotten larger and larger, due to anxiety, fear, and trauma, exposure based therapies can provide great benefit and relief. By tackling the things you have been avoiding in a hierarchical, graduated manner, you can begin to live your life with meaning, forming relationships you long for, and feel more confident about yourself.

Negative thoughts not only leave you feeling defeated and exhausted, it also impacts the way you behave and relate with others. Through CBT, you can learn how to change your negative thinking patterns and integrate meaningful and confidence boosting activities into your life, so that you no longer are controlled by depression and anxiety.

Everything is related to everything! There may be negative cycles of behaving and relating that you have desperately tried to stop, or that you are currently unaware of, that have deep roots in your childhood relationships and experiences. Through psychodynamic therapy, you can gain self-awareness that allows you to identify why you do the things you don't want to do and learn how to change your life.