Sumi Kirk, MA, LSW
Bio
Hello and welcome! I’m Sumi (she/hers) and I am a licensed social worker/psychotherapist, certified in Trauma-Informed Care (TIC). I received my Master’s in Clinical Social Work from the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice (previously known as School of Social Service Administration) and a Bachelor of Science in Human Development and Family Sciences at Texas State University.
My focus as a therapist is to center a creative and collaborative approach, while striving to create a welcoming and accepting environment to help clients overcome obstacles, strengthen relationships, and achieve their goals. I incorporate my clinical practice with a strengths-based and holistic approach, while utilizing trauma-informed approaches, mindfulness, motivational interviewing, relational theories, and mind-body techniques when needed. My therapeutic work background includes people with anxiety, depression, life transitions, trauma, family and relationship conflict.
As a first-generation Korean American woman, I serve clients with emotional difficulty surrounding the trauma of immigration, acculturation, and identity processes while engaging in cultural humility.
Practice Information
Types of Insurance Accepted: Private Pay, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Cigna, United Health
Location
Languages
English
Therapy Offered
In Person Therapy, Telehealth/Teletherapy
Types of Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Art Therapy, Attachment-based/Relational Therapy, Dance / Movement Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy, Family Systems, Humanistic, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Motivational Interviewing, Music Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Parent-Child Interaction (PCIT), Play Therapy, Psychodynamic, Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), Structural Family Therapy, Trauma-Focused
Issues
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Anger Management, Anxiety, Behavioral Issues, Burnout, Career Counseling, child-or-adolscenet, Codependency, Depression, Divorce, Domestic Abuse, Emotion Regulation, Family Conflict, Grief, Infidelity, Life Transitions, Marital Concerns, Personal Growth, Racial Identity, Relational Concerns, Relationship Issues, Self Esteem, Self-Harming, Stress, trauma-ptsd, Women's Issues
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