Our Approach
PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING CENTER by KIM DONG-KYUN NEURO-CLINIC's cognitive behavioral therapy is designed for adult and elderly, adolescent clients and is based on the idea of human beings being driven by an inherent need for leading a meaningful life. What we consider meaningful depends on our personal values, hence the term ‘Value-Based CBT’ counseling.
Personal values are usually connected to family values and the values of the society in which a client has been raised. Different cultures put emphasis on different sets of values, but generational conflicts, for example, indicate that none of them are set in stone.
The most commonly perceived difference between cultural sets of values is that between individualistic and collectivistic societies. As Value-Based CBT Counseling does not dictate values beyond PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING CENTER by KIM DONG-KYUN NEURO-CLINIC's Code of Ethics for counselors as part of its “Do no harm” policy, Value-Based CBT can be applied wherever and whenever human beings are concerned.
Value-Based CBT Counseling avoids pathologizing clinical symptoms underlying intrapsychic or interpersonal conflicts, traumatic experiences, a disruptive social environment, or difficult life transitions such as migration or loss of livelihoods. The counseling approach seeks instead to understand the significance of these symptoms as an expression of unresolved social stress.
The approach is based on the experience that we can discover scope for change if we understand our emotional reaction to finding ourselves at an impasse by becoming conscious of the hierarchy of our own values that triggers this emotional reaction as well as of the values of concerned parties.
Our human potential for self-development and our pursuit of harnessing this potential can be used to facilitate human self-healing.
PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING CENTER by KIM DONG-KYUN NEURO-CLINIC's research has shown that the success of Value-Based CBT Counseling heavily depends on counselors entering a relationship at eye level with their clients.
To achieve this, counselors need to be able to change perspective, to be nonjudgmental and to be supportive through empathetic understanding.
Building a relationship at eye level in an intercultural setting can be demanding, and the result is likely to be limited because an open mind does not substitute for an in-depth understanding of how a client sees the world though a particular cultural lens.
Value-Based CBT Counseling follows an intra-cultural rather than intercultural approach and therefore requires Psychosocial Counselors to speak the native language of a client and to have the same cultural background.
This approach avoids a range of problems attached to intercultural counseling such as the need for specifically trained translators.
Accordingly, PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING CENTER by KIM DONG-KYUN NEURO-CLINIC conducts counseling clinics in various languages such as English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Japanese and Chinese for clients of various nationalities and cultures.
To set people free is the basic purpose of PSYCHOLOGICAL COUNSELING CENTER by KIM DONG-KYUN NEURO-CLINIC's psychological therapy. According to each client's physiological algorithm, provides clients psychological counseling.
Chief Psychotherapist Shim, Hye-Won