Dr. Sung Ho Kim, NY Psychoanalyst 000245
Seasoned clinician blending body and talk approaches
About Sung
Dr. Sung Ho Kim helps people who are overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, grief, depression, or trauma. He creates a calm space where clients can speak honestly about hard moments.
He works in English and Korean and practices from New York as NY Psychoanalyst 000245. He draws on a mix of body-focused and talk-based methods to help people feel steadier in daily life. Sessions often include noticing bodily sensations, practicing small skills, and talking through relationships and painful memories.
Background and approach
The goal is clearer thinking and more manageable feelings. With 30 years of experience, he has supported people through job strain, loss, and changes in close relationships. He also addresses concerns like attachment and abandonment, caregiver stress, chronic illness, body image, and identity questions linked to adoption and foster care.
His style is practical and person-focused. He pays attention to how emotions show up in the body and in patterns of relating to others. Work in sessions aims to build coping skills and stronger self-understanding.
People can expect a steady, respectful approach that balances emotional processing with concrete strategies. Dr. Kim helps clients find ways to act on values, repair communication, and carry forward after difficult events.
How Somatic and Acceptance-Based Approaches Work Online
Somatic work pays attention to where emotions show up in the body. It uses gentle awareness of breath, posture, and sensation to help reduce physical tension that keeps stress cycling. This can be helpful for trauma, chronic pain, and anxiety that shows up as tightness or restlessness.Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, focuses on values and taking small steps toward a meaningful life. It teaches simple exercises to notice thoughts without getting stuck and to act in ways that match what matters most. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at patterns in close relationships and helps people change how they connect with others. It is useful for relationship difficulties and for people who struggle with trust or abandonment issues.
Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will talk with the client about goals, preferences, and how symptoms show up. Together they decide which methods to try and adjust the plan as progress is made.
Online sessions offer practical flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. These options let people meet from home or while traveling, continue work between sessions, and try different formats that fit their day-to-day life.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also works with
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Korean