Mee-Hyea Kim
Skilled counselor guiding practical change
- Credentials
- LPC
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed in
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
- Format
- Online sessions
About Mee-Hyea
Mee-Hyea Kim is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 10 years of experience working in New Jersey. She holds a Master's Degree in Psychoanalytic Counseling from Centenary College, affiliated with the Academy of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis. Mee-Hyea draws on both modern psychoanalytic ideas and practical therapies to help people manage distress and navigate change.
She takes a straightforward, down-to-earth approach in sessions. Mee-Hyea listens first and asks practical questions to understand what is getting in the way.
Background and approach
She then helps clients learn tools like mindfulness and coping strategies to reduce stress, anxiety, panic, and depressive symptoms. Her background includes work in many clinical settings such as in-home therapy, residential treatment centers, group homes, partial care programs, and psychiatric hospitals. She has also provided crisis intervention through the Bergen County Psychiatric Screening Program.
Mee-Hyea has experience with a broad range of concerns, including mood disorders, trauma, substance use, relationship and intimacy issues, parenting, and eating or body image difficulties. She adapts methods to fit each person's situation rather than using a single formula. In sessions she aims to create a supportive, nonjudgmental space where clients can explore past experiences and interrupt unhelpful patterns.
She offers phone and telehealth options and works collaboratively to build skills that make daily life more manageable.
Therapeutic approaches for online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) helps people notice thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them and then choose actions that match what matters to them. It can be useful for stress, anxiety, and coping with life changes. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and changing behaviors to reduce symptoms like anxiety and depression. It is practical and skill-based for day-to-day difficulties.Mee-Hyea approaches this work collaboratively. She helps clients explore which methods feel most useful and tailors sessions based on goals and preferences. Finding the right mix of techniques is treated as a shared process rather than a one-size-fits-all prescription.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules, continue work while traveling, or use shorter check-ins when needed. Licensed professionals can use these formats to teach skills, practice new ways of communicating, and support progress between sessions.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
Less about arguing with difficult thoughts, more about loosening their grip and acting on what matters to you anyway. Values and committed action carry the work, which suits conversation at a distance.
Attachment-Based Therapy
Looks at how early bonds shaped what you expect from closeness, and how that plays out now with a partner, a parent, or your own children.
Client-Centered Therapy
The direction comes from you rather than from a set programme. The therapist offers a warm, non-judgemental space to think out loud and work at your own pace. Online, this rests on the relationship rather than on being in the same room.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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