About Sung
Dr. Sung Ho Kim helps people who feel overwhelmed by anxiety, stress, depression, grief, or relationship strain. He works with individuals who are seeking clearer thinking, steadier emotions, and better ways to cope with life changes.
Dr. Kim brings calm presence and steady guidance to each session. He has practiced in New York for 30 years as a NY Psychoanalyst.
Over that time he developed an integrative style that draws from several therapeutic approaches.
Background and approach
Sessions focus on what is happening now and how past patterns influence current choices. In the room he listens for repeating relationship patterns, attachment concerns, and the ways worry or sadness show up in daily life. He helps clients notice unhelpful thoughts, test small behavior changes, and build skills to manage stress and strong emotions.
Practical tools are paired with deeper reflection when needed. Many people seek him out for grief, trauma and abuse recovery, or ongoing mood concerns. He also supports those facing chronic illness, caregiver burden, body image issues, and identity questions related to adoption and attachment history.
Work is paced to each person’s needs and tolerance. Sessions are offered in English and Korean. He aims to respect cultural differences and personal history while helping clients find clearer direction.
For people wanting steady, experienced guidance through difficult times, his approach blends active skill work with thoughtful, long-term exploration.
Therapeutic approaches and online care
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy focuses on noticing thoughts and feelings without getting stuck in them, then taking values-based action; it can help with anxiety, depression, and avoidance. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy targets the links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, using practical exercises to test new ways of thinking and behaving for mood and stress problems. Attachment-Based Therapy looks at how early relationship patterns shape current connections and helps people build more supported ways of relating.Choosing the right approach is part of the work. The therapist will collaborate with each person to identify which methods fit their needs, goals, and preferences. Sessions can shift over time as goals change and progress is made.
Online therapy options include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging to suit different schedules and needs. Video calls are useful for deeper conversations when visual cues matter. Phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited or when someone prefers not to be on camera. Live chat and text messaging work well for brief check-ins, skill practice, or when fitting support into a busy day.
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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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