Kim - Therapy & Reclaiming You

Kim - Therapy & Reclaiming You This CAN’T be your life. Let’s get you out of this mess.

💛🐝Join the Facebook Thrive Hive community ⬇️ I earned my B.S. in Counseling Psychology.

There is no perfect recipe to healing, and each of us needs a unique combination of ingredients. However, compassion, empathy, non-judgment, and loving-kindness are necessary to the process, and I commit to bring those qualities into our interactions. My role is to be present to your explorations, and help you identify steps you can comfortably and safely explore. Regardless of the reason for your

desire to start therapy, consent throughout is of primordial importance, and my approach is client-centered: that means I pull from an eclectic set of tools to provide a space, pace, and environment that works for you. In addition to more traditional talk therapy, I often draw from cognitive behavioral models, mindfulness, guided imagery, creative expression and art therapy, and some body-oriented techniques. A Little Background:

As a multilingual, transnational, and multicultural person who embodies social justice ideals, an appreciation for diversity is a key motivator to my understanding the unique strengths of individuals, couples, and families. I therefore seek to use my clinical skills, cultural humility, passion, and love for humanity to help effect positive social change in whichever way I can, and deeply believe that working from within leads to positive outward change. from the University of Toronto, where I pursued a double major in Biology and Forensic Science, with a minor in Psychology. I have several years of experience in the food and wine industry, in organizational development of a government agency, as an independent marketing consultant and translator, and as a private tutor and nanny, working with children and adolescents. After considering several avenues to pursue my counseling career, I proudly chose the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology (currently Sofia University), which focuses on mind, body, and soul integration, to earn an M.A. What To Expect:

As a therapist, I have had the privilege of working as a bereavement counselor at Pathways, where I assisted adult individuals through the painful, yet indiscriminately transformative journey of intense grief. I also worked at an elementary school within the Santa Clara Unified School District, where I support children ages 5 to 11. I have a particular affinity to working with grief and identity issues (specifically, cultural and multicultural identity, gender and/or sexual identity, religious/spiritual identity). In addition, I have worked with a variety of clients facing depression, anxiety, chemical and substance dependence and abuse, relationships and codependency, domestic violence, major life transitions, and various forms of acute and developmental trauma. I am happy to provide a 20-minute consultation over the phone at no cost to answer any questions you may have, and to help you book your initial appointment.

08/31/2026

1. Tell ONE safe person. Secrecy protects the abuser. Pick someone who can keep their mouth shut and help you act.

2. Start quietly documenting. Save threatening texts, photos, voicemails, dates and incidents somewhere they can’t access.

3. Get your documents together. ID, passports, birth certificates, health cards, banking info, prescriptions, custody/legal documents.

4. Create access to money. Even small amounts matter. If safe, open an account they don’t control and build an emergency stash. Buy gift cards when you so groceries and stash them.

5. Pack a “GTFO” bag. Clothes, medication, chargers, keys, cash, copies of documents and essentials for your kids. Store it somewhere safe.

6. Lock down your digital life. Change passwords, turn off location sharing, check shared accounts/devices and use a device they can’t monitor when planning.

7. Know exactly where you’re going. Friend, family, hotel, shelter—have a Plan A and Plan B.

8. Plan the actual exit. When are they least likely to be there? How are you leaving? Who is driving? Where are the kids? Don’t wing the highest-risk part.

9. Talk to professionals BEFORE you leave. A DV advocate, shelter, lawyer or police can help you safety-plan around your specific circumstances—especially when children are involved.

10. Don’t announce your departure. You do not owe someone who frightens or controls you a dramatic breakup conversation. Safety over closure.

08/30/2026

There’s a huge difference between understanding domestic violence in theory and understanding what it does to your brain, your nervous system, your decision-making, your sense of reality, and your ability to leave.

So no, I’m no longer interested in taking advice from people standing safely outside the fire telling survivors how they should’ve handled the flames.

Some things you can study. Some things you can empathize with. But lived experience gives you a perspective you simply cannot manufacture.

Survivors don’t need judgment from the sidelines. They need support from people willing to understand the complexity of what they survived.

08/30/2026

The best part about finally breaking free? Your energy stops going toward chaos and starts going toward building a life you actually want. ✨

And from there? It’s up, up, up. 📈

Just a handful of colorful comments by men I got for simply highlighting that women need adequate postpartum mental heal...
08/29/2026

Just a handful of colorful comments by men I got for simply highlighting that women need adequate postpartum mental health support. But not all men, right?

08/28/2026

Because maybe the “broken home” isn’t the one where the parents separated.

Maybe it’s the one where kids grow up watching resentment, tension, disrespect, emotional disconnection, or constant conflict — and learn to call that love.

Staying together “for the kids” doesn’t automatically protect them. Sometimes leaving is exactly how you break the cycle.

I’d rather my child grow up in one peaceful, emotionally safe home than under one roof where two people are miserable just so they can say they stayed together.

A family can change shape without being broken. ❤️

08/28/2026

The Lindsay Clancy verdict will be about one woman and one horrific case — but culturally, it will say something much bigger.

It will tell us how much room America is willing to make for the reality that postpartum mental illness can become catastrophic. Whether we can hold two devastating truths at once: three innocent children lost their lives, AND a mother can become profoundly psychiatrically ill after childbirth.

This isn’t about pretending the children don’t matter. They matter enormously. It’s about asking whether we only believe women’s mental illness when it looks sympathetic, manageable and easy to understand — or whether we still believe it when it becomes terrifying.

Whatever that jury decides, America should be paying attention.

Because postpartum women deserve more than screenings and pamphlets. They deserve to be taken seriously before a psychiatric emergency becomes a tragedy.

08/27/2026

Five white men weighing in as “experts” on a woman’s postpartum mental health experience—and we’re supposed to pretend that context isn’t worth examining? Representation matters, especially when the subject is something these men can never experience firsthand. Expertise and credentials matter, but so do blind spots, lived experience, and whose perspectives dominate the room. When nearly every authoritative voice looks the same, it’s fair to question what perspectives are missing. And in my opinion, with the exception of one of them, their testimony only reinforced exactly why that question matters.

08/27/2026

The DSM didn’t fall from the sky as some perfectly objective manual of the human mind. Its earliest editions—and much of the psychiatric system surrounding them—were developed in a field overwhelmingly dominated by white men. And that context matters.

When the people defining what is “normal,” “disordered,” or “pathological” mostly come from one demographic, their assumptions and blind spots can become embedded in the system. Women have historically had their distress dismissed, medicalized, or misunderstood. Racialized communities have faced their own patterns of misdiagnosis, overdiagnosis, underdiagnosis, and cultural behaviors being interpreted through a predominantly Western lens.

Pointing that out is not racism against white men. It’s acknowledging that who gets a seat at the table influences what gets studied, whose experiences become the default, and whose experiences get overlooked. Saying “this system was largely built by white men, so we should examine it for gender and cultural bias” is not the same thing as saying “white men are bad.”

We can respect the value of the DSM while still questioning its limitations. Critiquing bias in a system isn’t prejudice. It’s how systems get better.

08/25/2026

My son gets to grow up watching his mom practice self-care, set boundaries, protect her peace, and walk away from situations that aren’t healthy. He gets a home where chaos isn’t normalized, disrespect isn’t called love, and staying miserable isn’t treated like some kind of accomplishment.

And listen… half the people I know who are in relationships are miserable anyway. 😂 Being partnered isn’t automatically better. Being married isn’t automatically healthier. A two-parent household isn’t a flex if the relationship inside it is toxic.

So no, I don’t look at my life and think, Poor me, I’m a single mom.

I think: I chose peace. I chose safety. I chose myself. And in doing that, I’m teaching my son that he gets to choose those things too.

I’ll take this over staying in the wrong relationship any damn day. 🐝

08/25/2026

A lot of women today are not staying in unhealthy relationships just to say we kept a family together. We’re not teaching our kids that love means tolerating disrespect, chaos, betrayal, or misery. We’re showing them boundaries. Independence. Self-respect. Emotional safety. And what it looks like to choose peace when staying would have been easier—or at least more socially acceptable.

Sometimes breaking a family pattern doesn’t look like keeping everyone under the same roof.

Sometimes it looks like one woman having the courage to build a healthier roof all by herself. 🖤

Single moms aren’t victims of a broken family. Sometimes we’re the women who finally stopped the breaking.

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