About Mee-Hyea
Mee-Hyea Kim is a Licensed Professional Counselor with 10 years of clinical experience in New Jersey. She earned a master’s degree in psychoanalytic counseling and has worked across community and clinical settings. Mee-Hyea speaks English and offers remote sessions including video, phone, chat, and messaging.
She aims to meet people where they are and help them move forward. Her background includes roles in mental health agencies, residential treatment centers, and psychiatric screening programs.
Background and approach
That work gave her a lot of experience with crisis situations and complex needs. She has supported people facing depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, trauma, substance use concerns, and developmental disabilities. Mee-Hyea uses a mix of practical and insight-oriented approaches.
She draws from cognitive behavioral ideas to address unhelpful thoughts and behavior. She also incorporates attachment-informed perspectives to examine relational patterns and emotional bonds. In sessions she keeps a down-to-earth tone and focuses on collaboration.
She helps people learn mindfulness and coping skills they can use between sessions. Conversations aim to make sense of past experiences while building healthier habits for daily life. She also works with concerns such as relationship strain, parenting stress, self-esteem, eating issues, addiction, career transition, compassion fatigue, and ADHD.
For people juggling multiple problems, she addresses how issues interact rather than treating them in isolation. To begin, a prospective client completes a short matching questionnaire and schedules according to the therapist’s availability. Mee-Hyea emphasizes a steady, practical approach so people can notice gradual, meaningful change.
Approaches you can use in online sessions
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT helps people notice unhelpful thoughts without getting tangled in them and focus on values-based action. It is useful for anxiety, stress, and for people who want practical ways to move forward.)Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early and current relationships shape emotions and behavior. This approach can help with intimacy issues, communication problems, and patterns that repeat in close relationships.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will discuss your needs, goals, and preferences and try different ways of working until you find a good fit. This collaborative process helps shape session focus and homework between meetings.
Online sessions use video calls, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video is useful for in-depth conversations and emotion-focused work. Phone can be simpler when bandwidth is limited or for shorter check-ins. Live chat and messaging allow brief touchpoints, questions between sessions, or a way to keep momentum when a full session is not possible. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy lives and different routines.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Avoidant personality
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating disorders
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Forgiveness
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Personality disorders
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New Jersey
- Languages
- English
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