B.A. Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, 1995 M.A. Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, 1997 Ph.D. Clinical Psychology, Developmental Psychology (minor), University of California, Los Angeles, 2001 Dr. Kim is a cognitive-behavioral therapist whose primary areas of interest are child/adolescent development and minority mental health. Her clinical training and experience have involved working in multiple therapeutic contexts, the use of multidisciplinary resources and efforts, and the management of a diversity of mental health concerns. She has worked with children/adolescents and their families in the contexts of schools, day-treatment programs, hospitals, probation programs, foster care, residential care, social and protective services, home-based services, outpatient clinics, and private practice.

Dr. Kim has been leading research projects at the Wright Institute with her doctoral students in a number of areas including: program evaluation for school-based interventions; recruitment and retention of ethnic minority students in graduate training; pipeline for advanced degrees in psychology for historically underrepresented students; legislative advocacy and public policy in professional psychology; and cross-disciplinary approaches to working with systems-involved youth and family.