Anxiety & Depression

In the initial sessions, Dr. Kim conducts a thorough assessment to understand the nature, history, and severity of your symptoms. She explores how anxiety or depression manifests in your daily life, relationships, work, and overall well-being. This comprehensive picture allows her to design a treatment plan tailored specifically to you rather than relying on a generic protocol.

Drawing primarily from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Dr. Kim helps you identify the thought patterns, beliefs, and behaviors that maintain your distress. CBT focuses on recognizing and restructuring unhelpful cognitions, while DBT introduces mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness skills. Together, these approaches provide both insight and practical tools you can use between sessions.

As therapy progresses, Dr. Kim integrates person-centered and psychodynamic elements to address deeper relational patterns and unresolved experiences that may be fueling your symptoms. She believes that lasting change comes not just from symptom management but from a genuine understanding of yourself and your emotional landscape.

Throughout the process, Dr. Kim monitors your progress collaboratively, adjusting the treatment plan as your needs evolve. She also coordinates with psychiatrists, primary care physicians, and other providers when medication management or additional support would benefit your recovery.