My work with individuals who have been through trauma, abuse, and/or neglect (familial abuse or toxic relationships) has led me to conceptualize concerns related to eating disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depressive episodes, OCD, and substance use as closely intertwine with unresolved complex trauma, genetic pre-disposition, relationship break-downs, and ineffectual coping strategies.

 

It is important to me that our therapeutic relationship fosters a safe, accepting, and collaborative space by exploring resilience, strengths, and informed curiosity. I strive to facilitate self-empowerment and self-efficacy through adaptive coping/behavioral skills, strengthening cognitive insight, while honoring that change is hard when life gets rough.

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I utilize familiarity with immigration, acculturation, and oppression in my professional work with culturally informed practices that have an emphasis on social justice.

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I believe that in order to be a helpful therapist, one needs to practice humility and love of learning. Currently, I serve as an adjunct faculty at Arcadia University and Villanova University for graduate students in counseling. I completed part of my residency at an eating disorder facility and worked as a staff psychologist in college counseling center for a number years. 

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"I used to believe 

  all anger was wrong,

  so I was the captain of the tone police --

 

  until I discovered politeness is not rightness,

  that anger is not always hate, but hurt,

  and to be loving 

  is to be fiercely angry at injustice."

 

- J.S. Park-