Mi Seon Kang, LCAT, ATR-BC
Creative Arts Psychotherapist
New York City NY
I offer a compassionate, reflective, and collaborative therapeutic space where clients feel safe to explore their deepest emotions, thoughts, beliefs, and unmet needs. As they move from trauma, grief, and disconnection toward greater authenticity and wholeness, I strive to be emotionally attuned so they can experience the healing of feeling truly seen, heard, understood, and no longer alone in their pain.
I view therapy as a collaborative journey of discovery. Together, we explore unconscious patterns, unresolved traumatic experiences, and dissociated parts as they emerge within the therapeutic relationship. By bringing awareness to the beliefs, protective strategies, and relational patterns that may have once served them but now keep them feeling stuck, clients can make more conscious, authentic choices that support healing and lasting change.
Over nearly three decades as a psychotherapist, I have come to deeply trust each client's unique healing process. I believe meaningful transformation arises when clients reconnect with their innate wisdom, resilience, and inner healing intelligence. My role is to accompany them with curiosity, compassion, and presence as they discover the path that is uniquely their own.
I am a NY licensed Creative Arts Psychotherapist in private practice in New York. Before establishing my practice, I worked as a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, and program director in community based programs in NYC social services that provided therapeutic support for children and families from diverse cultural backgrounds. In my twenty years on the job, I have regularly encountered clients with a history of trauma and loss, childhood neglect/abuse, family conflicts, addictions, and mental illness. This experience has shown me the devastating consequences of untreated trauma and led to my special interest in working with clients who are ready to take the courageous steps toward processing their trauma that have impacted their lives.
My personal immigration experience as an Asian-American has given me a keen understanding of the challenges of being the “other” and navigating the complexities of integrating the various identities we hold. As a first generation Asian-American I have a wide perspective on how life challenges are compounded by intergenerational and intercultural conflicts. I am also deeply committed to helping BIPOC clients explore and process traumatic experiences of racism and other forms of oppression that have negatively impacted their identity, mental, and spiritual well-being.
Since my own psilocybin and MDMA healing journeys in 2020, I have been deeply inspired by the transformative potential of psychedelic medicines and have come to appreciate the essential role of integration in creating lasting healing and meaningful change.
In my private practice, I provide guidance and support for clients preparing for psychedelic experiences through intention setting, resourcing, and emotional and spiritual grounding. Following their journeys, I offer in-depth integration work to help clients process, embody, and integrate the insights, messages, and images they have received into their daily lives in meaningful and sustainable ways.
Through years of supporting clients in psychedelic integration, I have found that healing modalities such as Attachment-Focused EMDR, Internal Family Systems (IFS), Somatic Psychotherapy, Art Therapy, and Breathwork are especially effective in helping clients integrate the emotional, psychological, somatic, and mystical experiences that often emerge during psychedelic journeys.