Dr. Connie Kim-Gervey, PhD
Oregon Registered LPC Associate, Supervised by Tony Lai
(she/her/hers)
Dr. Connie Kim-Gervey provides therapy that centers the client. She believes that creating and maintaining safe spaces for her clients is the most important part of her work as a therapist. She has found that doing so enables her to support clients to truly question, learn, and grow because they feel comfortable sharing all of the good, bad, ugly, beautiful, and in-between parts of themselves.
As a therapist, Dr. Connie promises to hold her clients – who they are, what they want, and how they are most comfortable working – most important.
Dr. Connie invites adults and adolescents to work together with her in identifying their goals and wishes for their lives, as well as the best ways to work in collaboration to achieve those goals. A second-generation Korean-American, Dr. Connie has been working with issues surrounding mental health; ethnic identity development; multiple identity development; racial trauma and the influence of systemic, institutional, and cultural “ism’s;” intersectionality; adolescence; adult development; parenting; and, attachment theory for many decades. She specializes in racial trauma, anxiety, depression, shame, loss, isolation, alienation, stigma, identity, trauma, relationship difficulties, and school and work issues. She also has experience and enjoys working with clients who identify as BIPOC, People of Color and LGBTQAI2+.