Karen Choi (She/Her)

LMFT
Accepting Clients

I offer a safe, therapeutic space to facilitate healing and help adults find their path to make positive changes.

Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist in Newark, CA

Services
  • Individual

About My Clients

The fast paced life in the bay area is certainly a challenge to many people. On top of school/work stress, relationship problems, and trying to juggle with multiple things at the same time, it's no wonder that young adults and millennials are faced with anxiety, depression, adjustment problems, feelings of being stuck, or feeling lost all together. My role is to collaborate with you to find inner strength to overcome obstacles as you enter different phases of your life.

My Background and Approach

I grew up in the bay area and am pleased to be living and working here to serve the diverse population that I am part of. I have a decade of experience treating a wide variety of issues and mood disorders in different community and medical settings. I use different evidence based interventions tailor to clients' needs and use a warm, empathetic, and collaborative approach to support clients to develop skills to enhance symptom reduction as well as their well being.

My Personal Beliefs and Interests

We wake up everyday to make decisions and we have a choice to choose how we live our lives. We may feel stuck sometimes, but that doesn't necessarily mean that we cannot choose otherwise. Everyone has the capacity to make changes. I believe that therapy offers the space and opportunity for you to explore a new avenue to heal, grow, and gain self acceptance. The outcome you receive from therapy is a direct result of how much you invest in the process outside of the sessions. I will work with you at your own pace until you are ready to graduate from therapy.

Techniques I Use

Specialties
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT)
Other Techniques
  • Exposure Therapy
  • Culturally Sensitive Therapy
  • Eclectic Therapy
  • Harm Reduction Therapy
  • Humanistic Therapy
  • Motivational Interviewing
  • Psychodynamic Therapy
  • Solution Focused Brief Therapy
  • Person-Centered (Rogerian)

Issues I Treat

Specialties
Anxiety Depression
Other Issues
  • Abuse
  • Bipolar
  • Burnout
  • Career Counseling
  • Domestic Violence or Intimate Partner Violence
  • Family Conflict
  • Grief or Loss
  • Historical/ Intergenerational Trauma
  • Immigration/Acculturation
  • Insomnia
  • Psychosis and Schizophrenia
  • Racial Identity
  • Self-Esteem
  • Self-Harm
  • Systemic Oppression Therapy
Insurance Plans Accepted
  • Out of Network
  • Lyra Health
  • Modern Health insurance
I offer online counseling in the following states:

At A Glance

  • Experience: 16 years of practice
  • Rate: $220/session

Info

Email Karen
3900 Newpark Mall Rd, Ste 315
Newark, CA 94560

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