Helen H. Park
LCSW, MFA, SIFI
LCSW, MFA, SIFI
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 and family therapist.
The Mindful Families Project is the living culmination of my love and commitment to heal trauma through the integration of the Buddhist science of mind, creativity, liberatory praxis, and family systems therapy. I bring my own experiences of healing into this work, which I also consider a spiritual practice. There is deep joy in being able to bring these infinitely wise and healing practices to others, within the contexts of family, all our relations, and especially at this moment in our sociocultural climate.
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.
I look forward to hearing from you!
