David Park, M.A.

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Supervised Psychology Doctoral Training Therapist

About Me

I am a trainee at the Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology at Adelphi University, working towards my doctorate in Clinical Psychology. I work psychoanalytically with clients who seek to be unraveled from the conflicts, contradictions, and catastrophes of life to build an empathetic relationship with an emerging selfhood. The fears and anxieties, the heavy feeling of depression, the hypervigilance of trauma; these are all complex events in ourselves that are informed by our pasts, existing in the present moment in which we find our suffering. I want to work closely with you to bring the both of us to an understanding of the vibrating undercurrent of your words so that you may integrate the parts of you that are begging to be heard.

As a Korean-American, queer, Non-Binary therapist, I have an interest in approaching the therapeutic work from a decolonial lens, deconstructing the ways in which we are conscripted into a society that actively places human beings on the margins. This work includes working with BIPOC individuals, queer individuals, genderqueer and trans individuals, migrants and immigrants, and people who find themselves at the intersections of all of these identities. How do the ways in which our world impacts us find their way into our psyche and interact with what is being developed? How do we resist the messages that we are being told through therapeutic work so that our inner selves may flourish and come to be? How do we change?

​Specializations:

​LGBTQ+ populations
BIPOC and people of color
Immigrant/children of immigrants populations
Anxiety Disorders
​Depression

Academic Background

Gordon F. Derner School of Psychology, Adelphi University

  • Clinical Psychology Doctoral Program PhD Candidate

  • Doctoral Candidate, Clinical Psychology

  • Advisor: Dr. Michael O’Loughlin, In progress


Teachers College of Columbia University, May 2024

  • Counseling & Clinical Psychology Graduate Program

  • ​Master of Arts (MA), Clinical Psychology

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​Tufts University, School of Arts and Sciences, May 2020

  • Bachelor of Science (BS) in Psychology

  • Bachelor of Arts (BA) in English