Min Jung Yoon

About Min

Hello,

Some follow their bliss yet my path has been to follow the sorrows and atrocities, and to find ourselves and each other amidst and through. I’ve learned to embrace how we become who we are, with and through the challenges. I find beauty, meaning, and mental / emotional muscles, the deep kinds, in how we move with what life and the world throw our way. It gives me hope to be a witness, support, and collaborator with the people who want to process and grow.

People come to me when they would like to understand the root of their challenges and trauma, and find new ways to be and move in the world. The way I hold space can be dreamy and analytical; compassionate and questioning; academic and punk; structured and sensing.

After years of seeking for existential answers in philosophy, I searched to connect my mind and body, and make sense of what’s happening within myself and how we relate to the world-level challenges and relationship constellations. This led me to looking at and beyond — socially-constructed and inherited paradigms — and into feelings, memories, and other kinds of knowledge in the body / the soma, relationships, and how to sense the subconscious — with the lenses of Process Work and Somatic Expressive Arts.

Process Work or Process-Oriented Psychology was created by Dr. Arnold Mindell applying Jungian transpersonal, depth psychology to work with innerwork, body symptoms, altered states of consciousness, and organizations and groups. Where many psychological and medical paths may be looking at one area of the person and the world, Process Work opens and connects different aspects of individuals, relationships, groups and systems toward deeper meaning and a sense of connected and moving flow in life and existence.

Somatic movement therapy combines how we sense the physical, emotional, and mental states. At times, the body can speak what is unspeakable with the mind, beyond social constructs. Somatic movement can uncover new expressions of the self and integrate what is internal to how we show up in life. I hold a creative and safe space for exploring imaginations, dreams, and symbols in connection with the body with its sensations, symptoms and illnesses - to identify patterns, new possibilities, and resources.

My work is informed by extensive years of movement practice; and training in the Tamalpa Life/Art Process (TLAP), an intermodal expressive arts approach that supports embodied presence, creative resources, and meaningful communication. This background is integrated in a therapeutic context, supporting people to access inner knowledge and relational awareness through embodied experience.

With couples and groups, I hold space for deep listening and communication. Conflicts can be the starting place for getting to know one another again and again, and what you create together more deeply. We may unravel situational and past challenges, rank, power, privilege, new ways to express and communicate, and how to work and move together.

With compassion for all voices, I am committed to understanding and affirming intersectional aspects of social and political, including different kinds of marginalized identities and collectively growing from the challenges of discrimination, injustice, privilege, and power.

I have supported clients with finding meaning in their lives, depression, trauma, chronic physical symptoms, altered and extreme states, embodied leadership, expression, creativity, communication, inner critics, living your values, as well as relationship / systemic challenges.

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Toward depth and integration, we meet weekly or twice a month. After some time, we can choose a different rhythm. With one issue, theme, or dream, we may work with a few intensive sessions. Look forward to supporting the new movements and patterns.

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