Samuel Kim

Samuel Y. Kim, Ph.D.

Dr. Samuel Y. Kim is an Associate Professor at Texas Woman's University where he trains students in the field of School Psychology. He received his Bachelor’s degree from Emory University and his Ph.D. from Georgia State University. His research interests include positive psychology as well as fostering relationships among youth and their families. In addition to being a Licensed Psychologist in both Colorado and Texas, he has worked in a variety of settings such as schools, community mental health clinics, and university clinics in Georgia, Michigan, Kentucky, and Texas and provided a range of psychological services, including counseling, assessment, and consultation. As a child of immigrant parents from South Korea, Dr. Kim is keen on bringing awareness of mental health to the Korean American population. To this end, he works closely with Mustard Seed Generation on their programming and internal research work. In the spirit of sharing knowledge to empower, Dr. Kim and the former executive director of Mustard Seed Generation have started a podcast to translate current research on Korean and Asian Americans to practitioners and the general public called “Research Sense for Korean American Therapy”. The aim of the podcast is to cultivate greater mental health awareness and cultural empathy.