About Dawoon
Dawoon Ko is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) practicing in New York with four years of clinical experience. She greets people with a calm, nonjudgmental manner and focuses on practical next steps. Her approach aims to make the first conversations feel easier and more manageable.
She helps people facing stress, anxiety, and depression by listening closely and building a clear plan together. Relationship strains, parenting challenges, and family conflict are common topics she addresses in sessions.
How Dawoon works
Dawoon also supports people dealing with trauma, grief, mood shifts, addiction concerns, and compassion fatigue. Her work draws on client-centered methods that keep the person's own goals at the center of care. She also uses cognitive behavioral techniques to spot unhelpful thinking patterns and test new behaviors.
Motivational interviewing helps when someone feels stuck and wants to move toward change. Dawoon pays attention to cultural and immigration issues and to identities such as LGBT and gender dysphoria when they matter to a person's concerns. She also has experience with ADHD, autism and Asperger syndrome, and communication problems that complicate daily life.
Sessions are offered in English and Korean, and she meets people through online formats including video, phone, live chat, and text-based messaging. The first step is a brief matching process and then scheduling a time that fits the client's needs.
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What Dawoon works with
The areas below are the ones Dawoon selected when setting up a profile. The first few are listed as the main focus; the rest are also named.
- Stress, Anxiety
- Relationship issues
- Family conflicts
Also listed
- Addictions
- ADHD
- Anger management
- Autism and Asperger Syndrome
- Bipolar disorder
- Caregiver issues and stress
- Coaching
- Communication problems
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Depression
- Disruptive Mood Dysregulation Disorder (DMDD)
- Dissociation
- Eating disorders
- Family of origin issues
- Family problems
- Gender dysphoria
- Grief
- Immigration issues
- Impulsivity
- LGBT
- Mood disorders
- Multicultural concerns
- Panic disorder and panic attacks
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Prejudice and discrimination
- Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
- Self esteem
- Self-harm
- Sexual assault and abuse
- Sexuality
- Sleeping disorders
- Social anxiety and phobia
- Trauma and abuse
- Women's issues
- Young adult issues
Training and background
| Register | LMHC |
|---|---|
| Years in practice | 4 |
| Languages | English, Korean |
| Session format | Online: video, phone, live chat or messaging |
| Country | New York |
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Online support options
Approaches that guide online sessions
Client-centered therapy focuses on the person's own goals and values. The therapist listens with curiosity and reflects what she hears so clients feel understood and decide what to change. This approach is helpful for people who need support naming their priorities and building confidence to act.Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, or CBT, looks at links between thoughts, feelings, and behaviors. In sessions people learn to spot patterns that keep problems going and try small experiments to test different ways of thinking and behaving. CBT can be useful for anxiety, depression, panic, and sleep or eating concerns.
Finding the right approach is part of the work together. The therapist will ask about your needs, goals, and preferences and suggest methods that fit. Clients and the therapist check in over time and adjust strategies as progress or challenges appear.
Online therapy offers practical flexibility. Video calls let people work face-to-face when that suits the conversation. Phone sessions can be a simpler option when bandwidth is limited or a call is easier to fit into a break. Live chat and text-based messaging make shorter check-ins or ongoing support possible between longer sessions. These formats make therapy more accessible for people with busy schedules or mobility limits.
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