Psychotherapist
Psychoanalyst
Consultant
Kimberly Chu, PsyaD, LCSW is a highly-trained and experienced psychotherapist, psychoanalyst and consultant, who has been in clinical practice for over twenty-five years. She works with children, adolescents and adults in individual, couples and family therapy, as well as parent guidance and psychoeducation. Her approach is collaborative with a focus on respect for the individual and the challenges. She assists people who are seeking change and relief from the psychological, emotional and behavioral difficulties that can appear throughout life, whether an acute problem or long-standing patterns that have come to interfere with relationships and the demands and joys of life.
Psychotherapist, Psychoanalyst, Consultant
Kimberly Chu, PsyaD, LCSW is a highly-trained and experienced psychotherapist, psychoanalyst and consultant, who has been in clinical practice for over twenty-five years. She works with children, adolescents and adults in individual, couples and family therapy, as well as parent guidance and psychoeducation. Her approach is collaborative with a focus on respect for the individual and the challenges. She assists people who are seeking change and relief from the psychological, emotional and behavioral difficulties that can appear throughout life, whether an acute problem or long-standing patterns that have come to interfere with relationships and the demands and joys of life.
Curiosity
Experience and Approach
Kimberly’s clinical experience is broad, yet finely-tuned in a way that has allowed her to practice in a number of specialties. Her tenure of nearly ten years in hospital-based psychiatry, in all areas of clinical services, combined with extensive post- graduate training have given her a breadth of knowledge and practice base from which she can address a wide-range of complex problems. Although many people try to tackle the most obvious challenges on their own, she understands that what alludes us is what leads us to seek help. She practices an approach of curiosity in all things. Curiosity leads to exploration and deeper understanding. New insights can then emerge that allow change to develop in ways that were previously unknown-- previously unseen.
Exploration
Children and Adolescents
In her work with children and adolescents, Kimberly collaborates with parents, guardians, schools and other professionals, as appropriate and as necessary, in order to comprehend the concerns and possible ways to approach a difficulty in the life of a developing young person. She works with children who struggle with behavioral problems, anxiety, depression, chronic medical illnesses, gender identity, abuse and trauma, to name a few. She specializes in work with children and adults who have been adopted, as well as support of their families.
Race, Culture, Identity
Kimberly has written, lectured and provided clinical services to adults, children and families whose struggles relate to issues of race, ethnicity, culture and identity. She specializes in various areas related to identity and their manifestations in child and adulthood. Intergenerational cultural, language and communication difficulties often exist in families who live within mixed cultures, stages of immigration, races and evolving identities. She practices from an approach that begins where you are, your experiences, your story and believes that a successful working alliance starts with being seen and heard.
Understanding
Partnerships and Outcomes
Kimberly partners with patients and families to assess optimal treatment approaches and ways to discover new choices and better outcomes. Over the course of twenty-five-plus years of clinical work, it has been her privilege to collaborate, support, and witness patients’ efforts to work towards meaningful and lasting change, leave behind painful and dysfunctional ways of living and emerge as stronger, healthier people.