I am a licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in Pennsylvania. I have been providing counseling over 20 years in various setting. Although I work mostly with high functioning individuals on individual and couple issues in my private practice, I have worked with populations with chronic illness, care-giving issues, grief, trauma, treatment foster-care, severe mental illness through different agency settings. I have earned my Masters and PhD in Marital and Family Therapy as well as Master degree in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary in CA.
As for understanding me as a therapist, I think it would be important for me to share how I see counseling. I believe we all struggle with one thing or another in life. Some of us were lucky to know what a wonderful thing it is to have a loving and patient friend that comes to our side and listen and offer help when we need it. Counseling is a lot like that, but with the understanding that we form a relationship of respect and care with a specific goal that will end when it is achieved. I believe my clients are made after the image of God that is destined to live in love and peace. We are given the strength and inner wisdom that will guide us as we navigate our life journey. I work with my clients to understand what my client wants to achieve and work together to find what is stopping the client from achieving the goal so we can find ways to achieve it. We share many moments of laughter and tears during the therapeutic journey and I am a firm believer that nothing in life is wasted. We will find meanings are strength that comes from all of life's struggle.
Perhaps, the initial call/text/email is the most unnerving thing in the healing journey. You are reaching out to someone you have no reason to trust to assist you with very personal matters. However, I would like to share with you that I am also taking a risk trying to convince you to give me a chance to gain your trust (and counselors do get rejected at times).
If you are looking for someone to walk the stormy junction of your journey and assist you to find serenity, serendipity, and joy, I might be someone you can work with.
Additional areas of focus: Stress, Anxiety, Addictions, Family conflicts, Grief, Intimacy-related issues, Anger management, Depression, Coping with life changes, Compassion fatigue, Abandonment, Attachment issues, Cancer, Caregiver issues and stress, Codependency, Commitment Issues, Communication problems
Clinical approaches: Attachment-Based Therapy, Emotionally-Focused Therapy (EFT), Gottman Method, Mindfulness Therapy, Narrative Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy, Solution-Focused Therapy
PA LMFT MF000535
These quotes represent just a few of the many positive reviews that we have received for Dr. Heeyoung Koresko. We don't pay anyone to provide their review and they are all made voluntarily. Some people's experience receiving therapy with BetterHelp might be different.
I've been seeing Dr Koresko (Heeyoung) for over a year now. Throughout this time Heeyoung has been a guiding force in my life, and I am very grateful for the positive impact she has had on my psychological wellbeing. I am grateful for her warm nature, deep listening and sharp intellect.
Over the course of the last year I have grown in many ways. To highlight three of those:
Self-love
When Heeyoung and I started working together, my inner self-talk was very negative and filled with hate. Heeyoung was the first therapist I truly felt comfortable enough with to share the full extend of my self-directed hate. I learned to be much kinder to myself and am grateful to be experiencing a sense of ease and calm on a consistent basis within myself.
Anger management
When we started out I still had severe lingering anger from unresolved pain. Heeyoung gently walked through that pain with me and extended patience and faith in my ability to heal. I used to easily burst out screaming when I was overwhelmed/insecure in a conflict with loved ones. I now have learned to decompress my anger i healthier ways. I don't scream anymore and I am mindful in moments when I get too overwhelmed.
Marriage.
Heeyoung has been both a therapist for me as well as for myself and my wife. I am grateful. She has helped my wife and I talk through hard conversations again and again. And with her help we are learning to more and more see one another's perspective. I love my wife, and I see my commitment to working with her and Heeyoung as a wonderful investment in a flourishing future of ours. I am particularly grateful for the cultural bridge Heeyoung has been for us at times. I am born in Germany and my wife grew up in Singapore - Heeyoung having Korean heritage and living in the US has a unique ability to relate with our diverse cultures.
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Heeyoung has a heart of gold and I feel I can safely trust her. I can only recommend her therapy.
Written on Jun 03, 2022 after therapy with Heeyoung for 1 year on issues concerning trauma and abuse
Thank you dr Jane for your time and knowledge. I enjoy our sessions and I find them super helpful.
Written on Jul 28, 2021 after therapy with Heeyoung for 5 months on issues concerning addictions, relationship issues, intimacy-related issues, and parenting issues
Dr. Koresko is highly knowledgeable, a geeat listener and help me a lot. Her experiences also help to relate mybcase and have a hope. Thank you so much Dr. Koresko
Written on May 27, 2021 after therapy with Heeyoung for 1 month on issues concerning depression, stress, anxiety, relationship issues, family conflicts, trauma and abuse, sleeping disorders, self esteem, and coaching
I've been in therapy for 13 years, since I was 15. Dr. Koresko is the best therapist that I have ever had. From the start, I reached out to her because of a practical problem with work. She is incredibly skilled and adept at coaching me on navigating my industry and my career—and she went out of her way to learn about the industry I was working in so that she could navigate it with me.
I chose Dr. Koresko because I live in Asia and come from an Asian background and I wanted someone who could relate to the same cultural values that are so predominant here. In the end I found that Dr. Koresko is a dynamic therapist and can help me navigate my world in an Asian country, my job in the U.S., as well as my relationship with my partner who is European and living in Africa. She's so culturally competent, plural and worldly and I imagine she would be of help to anyone regardless of their background — she navigated the complexities of living and working and loving in Asia, the U.S., Europe and Africa with me with a firm hand and I am so lucky she was guiding me through all of this.
Dr. Koresko has incredible memory and is very incisive with her thoughts. She shocks me when she pulls out something I told her about the past, about my life at home with my family, and gets me to see the parallels to a situation at present with my partner.
Dr. Koresko cares more than just your mental health. She is there to care for your physical health, your financial health, your career, your independence, and the wellbeing of those you love and keep in your heart. With her, I feel like she looks out for all parts of me. She is the therapist I was looking for for years, and I am looking forward to growing and learning and laughing with her.
Written on May 15, 2021 after therapy with Heeyoung for 3 weeks on issues concerning self esteem, career difficulties, coping with life changes, coaching, and adhd
Working with Dr Koresko has really help me identify my biggest and main concern and help me navigate and map the problem better, giving me option into a deliverable action plan.
Written on Apr 16, 2021 after therapy with Heeyoung for 4 weeks on issues concerning self esteem, and career difficulties
I’ve been loving my time and feel like my issues are looked at deeper then superficial listening and that I am being heard Individually and have the ability to take issues with her on a deeper level
Written on Mar 22, 2021 after therapy with Heeyoung for 1 month on issues concerning stress, anxiety, relationship issues, intimacy-related issues, and self esteem