About Sung
Dr. Sung Ho Kim helps people who feel overwhelmed by stress and anxiety find steadier ground. He speaks English and Korean and brings 30 years of clinical experience in New York to conversations about depression, grief, trauma, and relationship strain.
He creates a calm setting where people can talk through hard feelings and confusing situations. Sessions focus on practical steps that reduce day-to-day distress and on clearer ways to communicate with others.
Background and approach
His work blends several approaches so therapy fits the person. Techniques come from cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy among others. This mix supports skills for managing thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.
Dr. Kim pays attention to attachment patterns and life history to make sense of repeating problems. That helps when facing abandonment, adoption and foster care concerns, or attachment issues that affect relationships and self-image.
He also helps people dealing with chronic illness, caregiving stress, body image, and major life transitions. The aim is to build coping tools and a clearer sense of purpose over time. People can use video, phone, or text-based formats for sessions.
International clients can work with him, and he offers an approach that adapts to each person’s needs and schedule.
Therapeutic approaches and how they work online
Dr. Kim uses approaches that mix practical skills with attention to relationship patterns. Cognitive behavioral therapy, or CBT, focuses on identifying unhelpful thoughts and testing them against everyday experience to reduce anxiety and depressive symptoms. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, or ACT, helps people notice difficult feelings without getting stuck and commit to actions that reflect their values. Attachment-Based Therapy explores how early relationships shape current patterns, which can clarify repeating problems in adult relationships and self-image.Finding the right approach is part of the work. Dr. Kim discusses goals and preferences with each person and adjusts methods as needed. He aims to collaborate so the chosen strategies feel useful and realistic for everyday life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video is helpful for deeper therapeutic conversation and visual cues, while phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or a quieter check-in is needed. Live chat or text messaging can suit shorter updates, skill practice, or times when typing feels more comfortable. These options make it easier to fit therapy into busy schedules and to continue work during life transitions.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
Also listed
- Abandonment
- Adoption and foster care
- Aging and geriatric issues
- Antisocial personality
- Attachment issues
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Avoidant personality
- Blended family issues
- Body image
- Cancer
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Chronic pain, illness, and disability
- Co-morbidity
- Codependency
- Commitment issues
- Communication problems
- Control issues
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Dependent personality
- Depression
- Divorce and separation
- Domestic violence
- Drug and alcohol addiction
- Eating and food-related issues
- Emptiness
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Fatherhood issues
- Fertility issues
- Forgiveness
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Guilt and shame
- Hoarding
- Hospice and end-of-life counseling
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- Infidelity
- Intellectual disability
- Isolation / loneliness
- Jealousy
- Life purpose
- Men's issues
- Midlife crisis
- Money and financial issues
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Narcissism
- Obsessions, compulsions, and OCD
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Paranoia
- Personality disorders
- Phobias
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Postpartum depression
- Pregnancy and childbirth
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Process addiction (porn, exercise, gambling)
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self-harm
- Self-love
- Sex addiction
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Smoking / vaping cessation
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Somatization
- Traumatic brain injury
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
- Women's issues
- Workplace issues
- Young adult issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)
- Attachment-Based Therapy
- Client-Centered Therapy
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
- Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT)
- Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT)
- Existential Therapy
- Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
- Gottman Method
- Imago Relationship Therapy
- Jungian Therapy
- Mindfulness Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Narrative Therapy
- Psychodynamic Therapy
- Solution-Focused Therapy
- Somatic Therapy
- Trauma-Focused Therapy
- Internal Family Systems
- Systemic Therapy
- Experience
- 30 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Korean
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