English-speaking therapy in South Korea is hard to find outside of Seoul, and even in Seoul the options for sustained, depth-oriented work in English are limited. Mental health stigma in professional circles here remains significant, and many people specifically want to work with someone outside their local context.
I work with anyone who needs support in English and is living in South Korea. Relationship difficulties, burnout, identity questions, something that's been there for years, a restlessness you can't account for.
The work
The work I do is relational and pattern-focused. I don't run through intake checklists or assign exercises between sessions. I pay attention to what happens in the room: what you're saying, what you're not saying, the moments when something shifts or goes flat or speeds up. That's the material we work with.
Most people arrive already knowing the story of their situation. They've told it to themselves a hundred times and always land in the same place. What's missing is a different angle, someone watching in real time who can name what's invisible from inside it. That's what I offer. Not interpretation from a distance, but attention in the room, offered as it happens.
I work with individuals and couples. Individual work is usually about finding the pattern underneath the presenting problem, the thing that keeps recurring in different forms across different circumstances. Couples work is about finding what the argument is really about, which is rarely what it appears to be about. Both come down to the same thing: seeing what you haven't been able to see, and from there, actually being able to do something different.
Being in South Korea
South Korea has a specific professional and social culture: high performance, high pressure, and a social world that's warm within networks and quite hard to enter from outside them. For English speakers without Korean, the professional world is accessible and the personal world is often not.
If the specific texture of life here is part of what you're dealing with: the performance expectation, the isolation outside work, the question of whether this is actually sustainable. We can work with it. If what brings you is something else, that's fine.
What people bring to online therapy
The people I work with in English come for a wide range of reasons: anxiety, depression, stress and burnout, anger management, grief and loss, relationship difficulties, loneliness, self-esteem issues, procrastination, sleep problems, attachment patterns, self-sabotage, perfectionism, identity questions, and existential concerns. Online counseling makes this work possible from wherever you are, whether you need an English-speaking therapist, a virtual counselor, or simply someone who can work in your language at a depth that matters.
How it works
Sessions are online via secure video call. I work with individuals and couples (60 minutes). Before your first session, we have a brief 15-minute call to see if this feels like the right fit for you.