Kim earned her Master of Social Work from Simmons College in 2005 and her B.A. from the University of Vermont in 1998. She completed a Certificate in Maternal and Child Health at the Boston University School of Public Health in 2002.

The majority of her training was at Children’s Hospital Boston.  She worked in three different departments there.

Her family-centered approach to therapy comes from five years of work at the Brazelton Touchpoints Center.  Her work was focused on optimizing family development by fostering deeper forms of listening and support by professionals within child care programs and various American Indian Early Head Start programs.

Kim also worked at the Family Connections Program, doing depression prevention with parents and caregivers of young children in a Head Start program in Roxbury, Ma.

Following that Kim worked as a group and individual therapist at the Adolescent Substance Abuse Program, an outpatient treatment program for youth ages 11 to 25.

For more information on Kim’s professional experience, please see her resume.