LMSW TherapistTaemin Ahn
Taemin specialize in sexual and gender identity exploration, racialized trauma, and life transitions. I am a queer Korean therapist and work with both individuals and couples.
A message from Taemin
Living in a world that feels violent and marginalizing is exhausting. Often, it can sap our ability to look beyond survival and toward our values and sources of meaning. As a queer Asian child of immigrants, I understand how building resilience feels even harder when our social environment doesn’t support us to live authentically.
I might be a good fit for you if you’re looking for a space to explore your identities and your relationships with your community, or to manage feelings of depression or anxiety within a larger ecosystem of limited choices.
I often work with clients who are experiencing the dissonance between what feels right and what feels realistic. While not every choice is actionable, I believe it’s important to sit with where these tensions come from and to center ourselves and our resilience throughout this work.
This meaning-making work can help you emerge from our sessions feeling empowered, supported, and clearer on your relationship to self and and your space within your familial and found communities.
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I originally came into therapy as a profession because I felt that the standardized, short-term therapy tools that were available to me as a client did not sufficiently explore my social position as a queer person of color. As a result, I ground my therapeutic practice in a commitment to honoring the fullness of your identities. I use existential and narrative approaches to help my clients find and nurture sources of meaning in their lives, even through periods of uncertainty and transition.
I am trained in anti-racist and liberatory therapy modalities that are evidence-based and grounded in a cross-cultural lens, and have been invited by organizations such as the National Association of Social Workers, the UCLA Asian American Studies Center, and the Mount Sinai School of Medicine to provide training on multilingual/multicultural therapeutic practice.
I work with clients who often feel unseen in their communities and workplaces, and who are seeking more clarity around the relationship between their identities and their flourishing. I take a warm and curious approach to help you explore and identify patterns in your experiences of race, sexual and gender identity, and their intersections. By nurturing deep self-love and self-understanding, I assist both individuals and couples to untangle how those patterns shape our relationships with others.
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Antiracist Mindful Facilitation (Donna J. Harris, Stirfry Seminars), 2022
Gottman Method Couples Therapy (Levels 1 and 2), 2022
Liberation Psychology for Racial Trauma (Clinicians of Color), 2023
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Master of Social Work, UCLA, 2022
Licensed Master Social Worker, New York (#119776-01)
Pronouns: HE/HIM/HISSpecialties:
Race and Cultural Identity
Trauma
LGBTQIA, Gender, & Sexuality
Life Transitions
MODALITIES:
Liberation Psychology
Existential Therapy
Multicultural Therapy
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
RATE:
$200 / 45 Minute Session
$100-200 Sliding Scale
