About Mi
Mi Jung You is a licensed mental health counselor (LMHC) based in New York with 10 years of experience. She helps people who are feeling overwhelmed by stress, anxiety, depression, or big life changes. She also supports those coping with relationship issues, trauma, grief, and struggles around self-esteem and parenting.
She prefers direct, conversational sessions that focus on clear steps and real-life skills. Sessions often include practical techniques to manage strong emotions and improve daily routines like sleep and work-life balance.
Background and approach
She draws on methods that emphasize thoughts, behaviors, and present relationships. Her background includes experience with addiction, bipolar concerns, and chronic illness, as well as issues such as abandonment, attachment patterns, and body image. She works with people who feel stuck by old family patterns or who are trying to rebuild after separation or loss.
Therapy can include short-term coaching goals as well as longer work on trauma and attachment. Mi Jung offers a mix of structured exercises and open conversation so clients can try skills and then talk about what did or didn’t help. Sessions are offered in Korean when helpful.
She aims to make therapy practical and approachable. New clients usually begin by identifying a few immediate goals, then move to tools to manage anxiety and stress while also addressing deeper patterns over time.
How therapy approaches translate to online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice unhelpful thoughts and choose actions that match their values. It often focuses on reducing avoidance and building a meaningful daily routine, which can help with anxiety, depression, and life transitions.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at how thoughts affect feelings and behavior. It uses clear, structured exercises to change thinking patterns and teach coping skills for problems like anxiety, sleep issues, and anger.
Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist will work collaboratively to match methods to a person’s goals and preferences, trying practical strategies first and adjusting over time. This helps clients see what works and what needs a different angle.
Online sessions are offered by video call, phone, live chat, or text-based messaging to fit different schedules and needs. Video lets people practice skills together in real time. Phone calls can be a good option when bandwidth is limited or for a focused check-in. Live chat and text messaging support shorter check-ins, homework questions, and ongoing coaching between sessions. These options make it easier to keep therapy consistent while managing work, caregiving, 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
- Attachment issues
- Bipolar disorder
- Body image
- Career difficulties
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Coaching
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Control issues
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Dissociation
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Forgiveness
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Intimacy-related issues
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Post-traumatic stress
- Self esteem
- Self-love
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 10 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- Korean
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