Jookyoung Kim
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About me
Hi, I’m a highly qualified and professionally experienced psychotherapist/counsellor and psychologist. I have abundant experience working with clients from varying backgrounds and cultures in the NHS and the private settings, for both the short-term and long-term periods.
I understand that it can be very stressful for people to talk about their own issues or distress. I strive to create warm, safe, comfortable and therapeutic space for all clients, providing them with non-judgmental acceptance and empathic support. I listen to clients closely and explore their inner world attentively, whilst sharing my insightful understanding to assist the clients to make sense of what’s happening to them internally or externally, or to make new meanings of their thought and behaviour.
I do not try to offer clients so-called expert’s version of solution or advice. Rather, I offer therapeutic work tailored to suit the individual needs of each client, whilst acting as a facilitator to the clients’ process to find their own ways to deal with their issues. This will not only lead them to experience self-discovery and self-acceptance, but will also help them to strengthen or recover their innate natural self-healing process.
I value every client as a person of worth unconditionally. You can expect to feel listened to, understood and supported by me throughout your therapeutic journey with me that will lead you to therapeutic change.
I'm located in Walthamstow, London E17. If you need further information about myself or my therapeutic work, please feel free to explore my Jooky Therapy website (https://jookytherapy.com/) or email me (jookytherapy@gmail.com). I try to reply to all emails on the day of receipt :)
HOW TO GET STARTED
For all clients who contact me for psychotherapy/counselling, I suggest a 30-minute initial assessment session which incurs a fee of £40. This is to explore together what brought you to therapy and what you hope to gain through therapy, as well as how I as a psychotherapist can help and support you.
After the initial assessment, if you and I both agree on working together, we will discuss on whether we will have short-term or long-term sessions or open-ended sessions, and proceed to have regular sessions. Weekly sessions are generally considered to be ideal, but you can request more often (e.g. twice a week) or less frequent (e.g. biweekly or monthly) sessions.
If you want to book an initial assessment session, please feel free to contact me! (When I’m in the session with clients, I will not be able to answer your call. In this case, please email me.)
Training, qualifications & experience
My Degrees/Qualifications:
- MSc in Contemporary Person Centred Psychotherapy and Applications [with a Distinction] – Middlesex University
- MSc in Social and Cultural Psychology [with a Distinction] – London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE)
- Diploma in Contemporary Person-centred Psychotherapy – Metanoia Institute
- Diploma in Person-centred Counselling – Metanoia Institute
Psychotherapy/Counselling Experience:
- As a psychological therapist, I worked at the IAPT service in the NHS for three and half years. I also worked for two different community counselling centres in London for three years, as well as for a counselling research centre for one year.
- I am currently running a private practice - Jooky Therapy - in Walthamstow, London E17.
Member organisations
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UKCP standards cover the range of different psychotherapies. Registration is obtained by training or accrediting with one of its member organisations, or by holding a European Certificate in Psychotherapy. Accredited by the Professional Standards Authority.
Accredited register membership
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Areas of counselling I deal with
Other areas of counselling I deal with
- Guilt / shame
- Immigration / refugee
- Experience of racism
- Identity (e.g. social, cultural, racial, gender, sexual, etc.)
- Culture related issues such as cultural adjustment
Therapies offered
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Fees
£70.00 - £75.00
Health Insurance/EAP
Additional information
* Individual therapy
For an initial assessment session: £40 for 30 minutes (both in person and online)
For a regular psychotherapy/counselling session:
- £75 per 50-minute session (both in person and online)
- If you book and prepay for more than 4 sessions in advance, I offer a discounted fee [i.e. 4 sessions for £280 (instead of £300)].
- I charge £80-85 for the session covered by private health insurance, because of the cost for administrative work.
* Couple therapy
You can choose either a 50-minute session (£95) or a 75-minute session (£135).
When I work
I’m available from Monday to Friday (mornings, afternoons and evenings). This may be subject to change from time to time, though.
Further information
I have had research articles published in prestigious international psychotherapy and counselling journals. You may find this research article helpful in gaining further insight into how I as a person-centred therapist work with clients.
Kim (2018), ‘Consideration of the applicability of person-centred therapy to culturally varying clients, focusing on the actualising tendency and self-actualisation – from East Asian perspective’, Person-Centred & Experiential Psychotherapies.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/14779757.2018.1506817
