Elizabeth Kim
MA, ATR-BC, LPC, CGP
EMBRACE THE ART OF BEING YOU
Hi, I’m Beth!
I’m so glad you’re here.
I am a Registered Board Certified Art Therapist and Licensed Professional Counselor (ATR-BC, LPC, CGP) and Certified Grief Counselor with AIHCP. I have experience providing art therapy and counseling services in community, school, home, and office settings with families, children, adolescents, and adults.
As an independent POC woman run company, I create spaces to support individuals to feel embraced, celebrated, and seen. I have a practice that meets with a wide population, and I specialize in work with children, adolescents, young adults, and families with a focus on self-expression, emotional and self-awareness, coping skills, adjustment to life changes, strengths based approach of identifying ways in becoming self empowered and develop calming techniques to use in daily life.
I love working with children of all ages and adolescents experiencing symptoms related to trauma, depression, grief and loss and anxiety.
My work also includes mindfulness, yoga, workshops, public speaking, wellness, and more! As an individual I am joyful, colorful, and compassionate, emphasizing the importance of love, family, connection, and discovery.
If you would like to see if we would be a good fit, please contact me for a complimentary
15 minute consultation.
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What People Are Saying
Beth has a profound way of connecting with complex and at times emotionally disconnected or unavailable clients. With her expertise in trauma, attachment, and sensory based art therapy framework, theory and interventions, she can support many different kinds of clients in a variety of ways.
— Amy Babish ATR-BC, LPC
Ms. Kim worked to connect with the people we served and focused on people’s strengths—on what they can do rather than what they can no longer do due to their illness. For example, one older woman in the program and her daughter told me that the mother didn’t want to come into the studio to work on art because “she doesn’t do art”. When Ms. Kim asked her what she does do, the mother replied that she likes to write, so Ms. Kim invited her into the studio to write. The woman wrote a beautiful poem about what it felt like to be in the studio and watch all the art being created around her.
— Sally White, Executive Director Iona Senior Services
Certifications
Certificate in Grief and Trauma Therapy (2021)
Wendt Center on Grief and Loss
Breathe for Change 200-Hour Yoga Teacher Certification (2021)
Breathe for Change
Presentations
Microsoft: Managing Secondary Trauma (June 2022)
Urban Teachers: Self Care and Stress Management (January 2022)
Microsoft: AAPI Safe Space Groups Series (October 2021)
DBH: How to successfully engage and integrate into the school by SBHE Supervisors (August 2021)
APAHM Celebration Series: Asian American Panel on Health, Wellness and Social Distancing (May 2020)
GMU: INTS 315 Spirituality and Conflict Transformation (November 2020)
GWU-DBH School Behavioral Health Community of Practice (December 2020)
Trinity College: Mental Health Panel (May 2019)
Virginia Commonwealth University: Art Therapy Case Presentation: Master’s/PhD Counseling (February 2015)
Center for Discovery: Art Therapy and Eating Disorders Presentation (August 2014)
Children’s National Medical Center: Art Therapy Workshop (May 2014)
Awards I’ve Won
Distinguished Service Award
2020
Potomac Art Therapy Association
Feature Spotlight
President’s Volunteer Service Award
2013, 2014
Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are.
-Lady Gaga