About Mee-Hyea
Mee-Hyea Kim is a Licensed Professional Counselor who brings ten years of practice in New Jersey to people facing stress and anxiety. She has a Master’s Degree in Psychoanalytic Counseling and has spent many years helping people manage depression, bipolar mood challenges, trauma, and substance concerns. Mee-Hyea writes plainly and listens closely to each person’s story.
She began her career working in community mental health settings across Bergen and Morris Counties.
Background and approach
That work included in-home therapy, residential treatment centers, group homes, partial care programs, and psychiatric hospital settings. She also has experience with crisis intervention through a county psychiatric screening program. Mee-Hyea uses several therapeutic approaches to match what feels useful to the person in front of her.
She draws on cognitive behavioral ideas to address unhelpful thinking and behavior. She also weaves in attachment-focused and client-centered methods to strengthen relationships and self-understanding. Sessions aim to be practical and down-to-earth.
Clients learn mindfulness, coping skills, and ways to notice and change repeated patterns that cause stress, panic, or low mood. Conversations focus on what matters now and what steps will make a real difference. She offers remote sessions by video, phone, live chat, or messaging to fit different schedules.
Sessions are provided in English and Mee-Hyea accepts international clients. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a time that works for them.
Therapeutic approaches you can use remotely
Mee-Hyea often blends cognitive behavioral techniques with attachment-focused and client-centered work. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy helps people identify unhelpful thoughts and try new behaviors to reduce anxiety and low mood. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns affect current connections and emotional responses, which can be useful for relationship or intimacy-related concerns.Choosing the right approach is a collaborative process. Mee-Hyea will talk with the person about their goals, past experiences, and daily life to decide which methods to use. She adapts the work over time based on what is helping most and what the person prefers.
Online therapy is offered by video calls, phone sessions, live chat, or text-based messaging to make care more flexible. Video sessions are best when visual cues and face-to-face conversation help the work. Phone sessions need less bandwidth and can fit into a short break at work. Live chat or messaging can be used for brief check-ins, step-by-step coaching, or ongoing written reflection. These options let people keep continuity of care even with busy schedules or travel.
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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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