Lisa Kim

Lisa has worked tirelessly with the Queer and LGBTQIA+ communities, most frequently our children, teens and young adults, as well as collaborating with other gender affirming medical professionals, towards living a happy, authentic life. She also strongly aligns with a belief that therapists should embrace and exercise cultural competency while welcoming a diverse community of clients. Lisa has a down to earth approach, is both knowledgeable and relatable, that brings laughter as well as sometimes tears to the therapy room. Her approaches derive from a Cognitive Behavioral perspective, insight oriented, psycho-dynamic and humanistic therapy and can include experiential work utilizing narrative and creativity as part of the therapy process. A holistic, mindfulness approach informs all of her therapeutic work. She includes Internal Family Systems theory and other modalities as needed into all of her work with clients. Lisa’s professional career has focused on work with children, adolescents and families while also seeing individual adults since 1995. She has a passion working with teens and young adults, finding their mutual affinity for straightforward talk where we do our best work. Lisa believes the family is the healing unit and is sure to include them in her work with adolescents, so the entire family is supported. Lisa also has worked with post trauma survivors, educating and building trust with insight, connections and compassion, using EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) with great success since 2002. Her work addresses client concerns with depression, anxiety and other mood disorders along with trauma. Lisa very much welcomes ages 11 through adulthood.