Helen H. Park
LCSW, MFA
LCSW, MFA
I have been working with children, adolescents, and their families in various capacities since 2004. My work started as a teaching artist in film/video and digital media in New York City public schools and as a community-based video installation artist, then grew to working with parents and daughters in social-emotional learning and creating arts-based curricula for children with learning differences and special needs. My desire to work more deeply and directly with the trauma that often arose in the work and to understand how to support another's healing process led to my current path as a clinical social worker specializing in integrative therapeutic approaches for children, youth, adult individuals, couples, and families.
In addition to providing therapeutic services, I teach meditation, provide clinical supervision, and lead workshops in Indo-Tibetan meditation in therapy, therapist self-care, and healing racialized trauma in community. I offer consulting and coaching for organizations in restorative anti-racist practices.
I received my Master of Social Work from New York University and Master of Fine Arts from University of California Santa Cruz. I completed advanced training in the Clinical Externship Program in Family Therapy at the Ackerman Institute for the Family and am certified in Contemplative Psychotherapy through the Nalanda Institute for Contemplative Science. I have also trained in Somatic Abolitionism for Therapists & Coaches with Resmaa Menakem & Education for Racial Equity and in Indigenous Focusing Oriented Therapy (IFOT) for complex trauma.
The Mindful Families Project is the living culmination of my love and commitment to integrate contemplative mind-body wisdom, creativity, liberatory practice, and family systems therapy. There is great joy in being able to bring these infinitely wise and deeply healing practices to others, especially within the contexts of family, all our relations, and within our sociocultural climate.
I work from an anti-oppressive, healing-centered approach that honors and celebrates the lived experiences of Bodies of Culture (people of color) and LGBTQ+ communities. I am deeply committed to working with clients of all backgrounds and lived experiences. I invite you to experience the liberating benefits of contemplative practice, creative resource, and to access your own internal well of healing.
I look forward to hearing from you!