Helen Park

Helen HyunKyung Park, LCSW, MFA is a therapist and meditation teacher in private practice based in New York City, focusing in healing-centered, anti-oppressive, integrative therapy for individuals, couples, and families.

Helen is known for her compassionate, curious, and direct approach. As a trained family and contemplative psychotherapist, she works collaboratively with her clients to uncover internal resilience and resource, and to identify the patterns, relational histories, and the inner and outer conditions that may be creating one's current challenges and dilemmas. Helen deeply values and fosters her clients' agency in creating their own healing narratives, and believes that every person possesses the wisdom and creativity needed to heal no matter how dire the circumstances. Helen is passionate about supporting clients in identifying what is needed to break recurring cycles of unwanted relational dynamics and personal struggles, and to find abiding happiness and fulfillment in accordance with their deepest values and hopes. She utilizes an integrative, collaborative, and relational framework to facilitate change and a new path toward healing and transformation.

Helen received a Master of Social Work from New York University. She completed the Clinical Externship in Family Therapy at the Ackerman Institute for the Family and 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 individuals, couples, and families who reside in New York State. Please inquire about the possibility for in-person sessions. Additional services for meditation coaching and guidance are available to all regardless of geographic location.