About Kim

The Path That Brought Me Here

For more than 25 years, I worked at the intersection of mental health and education, supporting students, families, and staff through grief, trauma, crisis, and the full weight of what it means to be alive. As both an educator and a parent, I developed a deep understanding of adolescence, emotional resilience, and what people need to feel truly seen and supported.

Some of the most formative and demanding years of that work came as a leader at Palo Alto High School, where I guided the community through two suicide clusters. Navigating those crises required not only clinical skill and trauma-informed leadership but also the ability to hold an entire community in its most acute pain while keeping people safe, connected, and moving toward healing.

After experiencing career burnout and chronic PTSD myself, I stepped away from education in 2018 and began a profound personal healing journey. While completing my Doctorate in Leadership for Change, I discovered that intellectual insight alone wasn't enough. Through trauma-informed therapy, somatic healing, deep inner exploration, and ultimately psychedelic-assisted healing, I reconnected with a more authentic and embodied sense of self and found a new direction for my life and work. That experience was transformative in ways I could not have anticipated, and it is a large part of why I now offer this work to others.

That path led me to train at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), where I deepened my capacity to hold space for others through experiential, trauma-informed, and integrative approaches that ask the whole person to show up, not just the mind. My training and personal experience have shaped a particular passion for psychedelic-assisted therapy and ketamine-assisted psychotherapy as profound tools for healing, especially for those who feel stuck, have tried conventional approaches, or are ready to explore a deeper layer of themselves.