Hi there,

I am glad our paths have crossed.

I am Jooyoung Kim, a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor in the state of Ohio and a Certified Financial Therapy™️ Practitioner.

Why Mental Health and Financial Therapy?

I started off with computer science major in my college career thinking that I will be making BANK and retiring my parents in my 20’s. I realized, though, I was obliviously cruising through life with little awareness of my neurodivergency and emotional needs, which led to so many unanswered relational difficulties, unsuccessful attempts to achieve goals, and a sense of confusion about life. When I picked up a book about human psychology for the first time, I started understanding why I felt so blindsided when the waves of stressors were overpowering my life; a lack of education on mental health. Then I chose psychology and counseling education as my new professional goals, with the hope that I can walk alongside and empower those in need of support for mental health.

As my sense of identity in the mental health field grew bigger and bigger, this one aspect started catching my attention — MONEY. The journey of my personal finances enabled me to reflect on this question, “why can’t so many professionals and online financial gurus appease my anxiety and complex thoughts about my money, investment decisions, and conflicts in marital finances? They are the experts and they know the best information!” So many memories and feelings continued coming up and hindering the sense of thriving even after squeezing so much information into my knowledge box. For this personal reason, I started looking into a way to bridge the gap between mental health/human psychology and money. I got lucky and felt rewarded for this mission-driven search: I encountered the information on Financial Therapy Association, and it has been history ever since.

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About Current Mind Counseling

Current Mind Counseling (CMC) will be your next stop for emotional safety, a sense of inclusivity, and source of learning about your own life — Jooyoung is here to help you with the current of your life. Let’s honor your wanting to understand your past, to connect dots with your present self, and to build the life you would like moving forward. We can process life challenges and work as a team for you to develop coping skills and create a safe place within you.

I received my master of education in counselor education with mental health clinical mental health counseling. I have been a licensed professional clinical counselor in Ohio since 2020. I am also a Certified Financial Therapy Practitioner by the Financial Therapy Association.
No experiences are the same and will be healed by cookie-cutter approaches and that's why I use holistic and eclectic approaches in my counseling practice depending on the clients' needs. However, I do incorporate Solution-Focused Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy based techniques to guide questions for you to explore your own thoughts, feelings, and behaviors; I may use inner child work, psycho-education, problem solving approaches, building new perspectives and coping skills, hands-on activities, and/or homework assignments as needed.
I am here to help you with the current of your life. Let’s honor your wanting to understand your past, to connect dots with your present self, and to build the life you would like moving forward. We can process life challenges and work as a team for you to develop coping skills and create a safe place within you.
The word ‘current’ signifies various meanings to me; however, the first image popping into my head when I hear the word is the streaming body of water in a river and a school of fish swimming along or against the energy from the movement of the water. This is the best analogy to describe how we all, as human beings, live through life smoothly and at times run into struggles that interrupt the paths to our goals in life. The approach I take in my clinical/coaching work is aligned with this image and that is why I named my company ‘current mind’ counseling.