Profile

Pauline Kim, MSW, LSWAIC

Description of Counselor/Practice

I offer telehealth services through Wayfinder Counseling. In a world rife with oppressive systems, I invite you in to prioritize your wellness, to take a rest, to heal, and to find new ways to be and move. I utilize an anti-oppressive and social justice-oriented lens in an abolitionist framework where we center curiosity and the spirit of uncovering who you are and how you breathe. I am a strengths-based, trauma-informed, and relational therapist who sees you as the expert in our work together. I use decolonized non-violent communication, somatics, and draw from theories and approaches that understand who we are in context to our environments past and present. My work has been radically shaped by disability justice and liberatory social work and I believe fiercely in the wisdom that our bodies hold, both in the ancestral and now. Therapy is a way for me to tend to our communities and where healing is needed. I walk in this journey ready to collaborate with you, learn from each other, and to enjoy where we go on this wild and beautiful ride. What does it mean for us to heal? What do you need? What would it mean to be able to unmask? Where could we go? I come to this work with a deep love and connection with community building, particularly in identity-based groups and QTBIPOC community. I offer gender-affirming care and celebrate asexual identities in working with 2SLGBTQIA+ folks. I identify as an AuDHD queer & trans/non-binary 2nd generation Korean American. In each of these identities, my lived experience has brought me to places where I can witness, play, and treasure the intersections of who we are and how our light is refracted into the world around us. I operate out of Wayfinder Counseling and we take these insurances: Premera, Lifewise, Coordinated Care, AmBetter, Regence, HMA, Blue Cross/Blue Shield *(some providers may be out of network with this company. Please check with us for more information).

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Languages Counseling Provided In
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Insurance Accepted

Locations

Lynnwood WA 98036

Organization: Wayfinder Counseling

Offers online counseling

Cost: $150 per session

College: University of Washington School of Social Work

Degree: Master of Social Work

Year Graduated: 2022