Seon W. Kim

Seon W. Kim (PhD, LMFT) is a Korean American marriage and family therapist, educator, and researcher working bilingually in Korean and English. He is core faculty in the Marriage and Family Therapy program at Southern Connecticut State University, part-time faculty at Capella University, and Chief Research Officer at Waypoint Cooperative. His clinical and scholarly work spans addiction and neurobiology, trauma, multicultural counseling, and social justice in MFT, with a particular commitment to the Korean American and broader AAPI community. He also serves in board-level roles in elder care and AAPI mental health advocacy.

In his clinical practice, Seon works with individuals, couples, and families navigating addiction, trauma, relational distress, identity, intergenerational dynamics, and the particular stressors that come with living between Korean and American cultural worlds. His approach is systemic, relationally grounded, and culturally responsive, integrating family systems theory, attachment, neurobiology, and postmodern perspectives. He understands that mental health struggles do not exist apart from family history, cultural context, and structural realities, and he creates space for clients to be understood whole, without having to translate themselves to be seen.