About Sung
Sung Jae Shin is a licensed clinical social worker who focuses on helping people with stress and anxiety. He speaks English and Korean and practices from New York. He keeps things straightforward and practical so worried parents can read and understand what to expect.
Sung Jae aims to build an open space where someone can say what they really feel. He listens without judgment and helps people notice patterns that get in the way of everyday life.
Background and approach
Sessions are conversational and goal-oriented, with simple steps to try between meetings. He uses tools from Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to identify unhelpful thoughts and test new ways of reacting. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy helps people notice difficult feelings and choose actions that match their values.
Motivational Interviewing supports people who need a bit more help finding reasons to change. Across five years of practice he has worked with people dealing with relationships, low mood, self-esteem, and life changes. He also addresses specific concerns like panic attacks, social anxiety, guilt, and loneliness.
The focus is on improving daily coping and making small, sustainable changes. Sung Jae describes therapy as a team effort. He works with each person to set clear, realistic goals and to track progress.
The approach is adaptable and paced to match each client's needs and comfort level.
Approaches that work well online
Sung Jae often draws on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and test new behaviors. CBT gives clear exercises and short, practical experiments that translate well to video or messaging sessions.He also uses Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to teach skills for noticing difficult feelings and choosing actions that match personal values. ACT is useful for people who want to reduce avoidance and live more in line with what matters to them. Motivational Interviewing can help when motivation feels stuck by exploring ambivalence and identifying personally meaningful reasons to change.
Finding the right approach is part of the work. He will collaborate with each person to choose methods that fit their goals and preferences. That might mean trying one approach for a few sessions and adjusting based on how things are going.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video allows face-to-face conversation and guided exercises, phone works well when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports brief check-ins, and messaging lets people reflect in writing between sessions. These options make therapy more flexible and easier to fit into busy days.
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What this therapist works with
Most often
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Self esteem
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Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 5 years
- Licensed
- New York
- Languages
- English, Korean
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