Kim COLEMAN, Divan Blu

Membership number: NA-7899

Profile

Professional Background

Kim holds two master’s degrees –in Art Therapy and Social Work – both from the University of Illinois at Chicago and she is a PhD candidate at McGill University in Montreal. With over twelve years of clinical counselling experience, she has worked with a range of individuals, families, and groups across a variety of settings. For example, she has worked in child and family clinics, in-patient psychiatry, and addiction treatment facilities. She has also worked with survivors of sexual assault and as a supervisor of a family violence prevention program. Most recently she has been an Employee Assistance Program (EAP) coordinator and in private practice as an Art Therapist. Across all her experience, trauma has been the common denominator and complex trauma has become an area of special focus.

Kim has taught at the University level for fifteen years in a variety of places spanning the United States, Canada, and the Middle East. She is currently an Associate Professor of Social Work at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh. Her current research explores the capacity of awe to improve wellbeing, with a special interest in how awe contributes to healing.

Kim's therapeutic approach blends compassion and curiosity with creativity and is rooted in Relational-cultural Theory, Internal Family Systems, and Narrative Therapy – three perspectives which blend well with holistic wellbeing, deep healing, and transformation. She works in a trauma-informed, healing-centered way and is especially sensitive to one’s intersectional identity.

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