Mee-Hyea Kim, LPC

Mee-Hyea Kim is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) based in New Jersey with ten years of experience as an LPC and extensive work across community mental health settings. She holds a Master’s Degree in Psychoanalytic Counseling from Centenary College affiliated with the Academy of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis, and she is trained in Modern Psychoanalysis and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).

Her professional background includes long-term roles in Bergen and Morris Counties where she has supported children, adults, and couples from diverse religious, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds. She has worked with people facing depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, trauma, developmental disabilities, and substance use challenges, and has substantial crisis-intervention experience through the Bergen County Psychiatric Screening Program. Clinical settings in which she has practiced include in-home therapy, residential treatment centers, group homes, partial care programs, and psychiatric hospitals.

Mee-Hyea approaches therapy as a collaborative partnership, offering a supportive, nonjudgmental, down-to-earth, and thought-provoking style that helps clients build mindfulness, healthy coping skills, and deeper insight into emotional patterns. She works with issues such as stress, relationships, family dynamics, self-esteem, addictions, trauma and abuse, intimacy concerns, eating and body image struggles, parenting challenges, anger, career issues, ADHD, and other co-occurring difficulties. She is available for phone and telehealth sessions and accepts international clients, guiding each person toward practical change and greater emotional well-being.

Therapeutic Approaches and Online Support

Mee-Hyea integrates evidence-informed approaches to help clients address emotional and relational concerns. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) focuses on accepting difficult feelings while clarifying personal values and taking committed action - it can be helpful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) examines the links between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors and teaches practical strategies to reduce symptoms of depression, anxiety, and related patterns. Attachment-Based Therapy explores early relationship patterns and current attachment needs to improve intimacy, communication, and secure connection in relationships.

Finding the right approach is part of the therapeutic process, and Mee-Hyea collaborates with each client to identify methods that best fit their goals, preferences, and needs. She tailors interventions and adjusts strategies over time so therapy remains relevant and helpful.

Online therapy offers practical flexibility - sessions can take place by video call or phone, and clients can also use live chat or text-based messaging when appropriate. These options make it easier to fit therapy into a busy life, connect from different locations including internationally, and maintain continuity of care when schedules or circumstances change.