Helen Park(She/Her/Hers)

Helen HyunKyung Park, LCSW, MFA is a therapist and meditation teacher in private practice based in New York City, specializing in relational, anti-oppressive, and holistic therapies for adolescents, adult individuals, couples, and families.

Helen is known for her compassionate, insightful, and direct approach. As a trained family and contemplative psychotherapist, she works collaboratively with clients to access internal resilience and resource. Her systems-based approach helps clients identify the contexts of lived experience and relational histories that have shaped their struggles. Helen deeply values and fosters her clients' agency in creating their healing narratives, and believes that every person possesses the wisdom, resilience, and creativity needed to heal no matter how dire the circumstances. She is deeply committed to supporting clients in identifying what is needed to heal from relational and intergenerational traumas, break recurring cycles of unwanted relational dynamics and personal struggles, and to find abiding happiness and fulfillment in accordance with their deepest hopes. She utilizes a holistic mind-body, collaborative, and relational framework to facilitate transformation and growth.

Helen received a Master of Social Work from New York University. She completed advanced training in the Clinical Externship in Family Therapy at the Ackerman Institute for the Family and holds certifications in Contemplative Psychotherapy from the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science. Helen has additional training in Indigenous Focusing Oriented Therapy and Somatic Abolitionism.

She is currently holding virtual therapy sessions for adolescents, individuals, couples, and families who reside in New York State. In-person availability in Manhattan will increase beginning in June 2024.