About Me
Kim Konopka, LCSW
(pronouns: they/them)
I’m passionate about supporting people along their healing journeys and paths of self-discovery. I don’t believe we seek out therapy because we are “flawed” or because we need to be “fixed.” Instead, I view therapy as an act of empowerment and resilience when navigating challenging systems, -isms, circumstances and relationships. I understand the therapy space to be a place for learning and unlearning together- because we aren’t meant to do the work of navigating these systems alone in isolation.
My own lived experience in relation to race, gender, sexuality, neurodivergence, and my identity as an adoptee all drive my commitment to practicing from a place that holds space for - and celebrates- each person’s multiple and intersecting identities.
In my work, I don’t operate from the role of “expert.” I see myself as a skilled and compassionate collaborator who shows up with curiosity and care as you navigate the cusps of your growing edges. Shedding light on our hidden spots and stretching beyond our current edges - in all of its excitement, vulnerability and discomfort- leads us to new places, new practices, and new ways of being with ourselves and others. This is some of the tender work that cultivates our sense of clarity and builds our capacity for holding multiple truths about ourselves and the world.
I understand growth to be a lifelong, daily and gradual practice. I believe we are all deserving of opportunities for deep reflection and compassion throughout our unique journeys.
“We do this work because we live with the shadows of our collective pasts, but also because we know that a truly just future needs all of us in all of our magnificent complexities, in our human vulnerability and weaknesses, in our cultural work, in our very existence as exactly what and who we are.”
— Lydia X.Z Brown
Kimberly Konopka, LCSW
New York License # : 090498
New Jersey License # : 44SC05969800
California License # : 94870