Mee-Hyea Kim , LPC

Mee-Hyea Kim is a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) practicing in New Jersey with a decade of experience as a licensed clinician and a deep background in community mental health work. She holds a Master’s Degree in Psychoanalytic Counseling from Centenary College, affiliated with the Academy of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis, and is trained in Modern Psychoanalysis as well as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).

Mee-Hyea has also spent 15 years working with mental health agencies in Bergen and Morris Counties, providing care across a wide range of settings including in-home therapy, residential treatment centers, group homes, partial care programs, and psychiatric hospitals. Her experience includes extensive crisis intervention as part of the Bergen County Psychiatric Screening Program.

She has worked with children, adults, and couples from diverse religious, cultural, and socioeconomic backgrounds who face challenges such as depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, trauma, developmental disabilities, and substance use concerns. Her clinical interests also include relationship and family issues, self-esteem, eating concerns, ADHD, caregiving stress, and intimacy-related difficulties.

Mee-Hyea’s therapeutic style is collaborative, supportive, and non-judgmental with a down-to-earth, thought-provoking approach. She helps clients build mindfulness, healthy coping skills, and insight to navigate past traumas and interrupt unhelpful patterns that contribute to anxiety, panic, stress, and low mood. Mee-Hyea conducts sessions via phone and telehealth and looks forward to partnering with people as they work toward meaningful change.

Evidence-Informed Approaches for Online Therapeutic Care

Mee-Hyea Kim uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help clients clarify their values and take practical steps toward a meaningful life. ACT emphasizes acceptance of difficult thoughts and feelings while committing to behavior change, which can be helpful for anxiety, stress, and life transitions.

She also incorporates Attachment-Based Therapy to explore patterns formed in early relationships and how those patterns affect current connections. This approach supports work on intimacy, relationship difficulties, and issues tied to abandonment or attachment wounds.

In addition, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) is used to identify and change unhelpful thought and behavior patterns. CBT is practical and solution-focused, often useful for depression, panic, and mood management.

Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Mee-Hyea will partner with each person to assess needs, goals, and preferences and adapt interventions over time so the treatment fits the individual.

Online therapy offers flexible ways to connect - video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging - making it easier to fit support into a busy life or reach people outside the therapist's immediate area. These formats allow licensed professionals to deliver consistent, focused care while accommodating different communication styles and scheduling needs.