About Maria
Dr. Maria Kim uses practical, evidence-based approaches to help people manage stress, anxiety, depression, and relationship strain.
Background and approach
She is a licensed marriage and family therapist and a licensed mental health counselor with 15 years of experience. Dr.
Kim speaks English and Korean and provides care to people located in Washington. She focuses on clear, usable strategies rather than labels.
Sessions often include conversations that help people name feelings, try new ways of coping, and practice small behavior changes between meetings. She adapts her work to each person’s needs and goals.
Her background includes long experience as a psychotherapist and work in expressive therapies. That history informs how she uses creative tools alongside talk-based techniques when people want them.
The goal is to find approaches that fit each person’s life and preferences. Dr.
Kim brings warmth and a respectful, nonjudgmental stance to sessions. She avoids stigmatizing language and centers each person’s strengths while addressing difficult topics such as trauma, grief, anger, and parenting stress.
Conversations are collaborative and paced to what feels manageable. To begin, people complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule appointments based on availability.
Sessions are offered through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging so people can choose what works best for them.
How evidence-based techniques work online
Many of her sessions draw on straightforward, evidence-based techniques that focus on thoughts and behavior. Cognitive-behavioral style work helps people identify unhelpful thinking patterns and try small behavior changes to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms. This approach is practical and often includes short exercises to use between sessions.She also brings humanistic and psychodynamic-informed conversation techniques that focus on values, relationships, and understanding patterns from past experience. These approaches help people make sense of recurring difficulties and build self-awareness over time. Creative methods from her expressive therapies background are available when someone wants to use art or other expressive tools alongside talk therapy.
Finding the best approach is collaborative. The therapist will talk with each person about their goals, preferences, and how they respond to different methods. Together they choose techniques and adjust them over time so the work fits real life.
Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, giving flexible options for different needs. Video is useful for full conversations and visual cues. Phone sessions can be a simpler, low-bandwidth check-in. Live chat and text messaging work well for shorter updates or when written reflection helps. These options make it easier to fit sessions into busy schedules and keep continuity between appointments.
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Specialties and expertise
Top specialties
- Stress, Anxiety
- Parenting issues
- Self esteem
Also works with
- Anger management
- Depression
- Grief
- Relationship issues
- Trauma and abuse
- Experience
- 15 years
- Licensed
- California, Washington
- Languages
- English, Korean