My journey with counseling began in 2006 when I received my Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from the University of Maryland. My goal was to become a high school guidance counselor, but God immediately redirected my path into pastoral ministry. Over the past two decades, I have walked alongside teens, adults, married couples, and families in various contexts. In 2017, God moved our family to plant a church within a residential recovery center. Walking alongside these men gave me a deep, personal, and practical understanding of addiction.

My approach to counseling is biblically grounded, relationally attuned, and culturally fluent. As a child of South Korean immigrants, I am especially passionate about how our unique cultural stories intersect with our relationship with God. Having experienced different socioeconomic situations, church denominations, political leanings, and ethnic backgrounds, God has give me a heart to see wholeness in a divided and broken world. I believe that by asking the right questions and seeing our stories more clearly, we can trust that Jesus is able to bring rest to our souls in every chapter of our lives—even the parts we are afraid to bring to the surface.