Andrew H. Kim

At Therapy Aligned, we believe that effective therapy requires more than a set of techniques — it requires a relationship built on trust, attunement, and genuine collaboration. Andrew’s clinical approach reflects this conviction. He works from an integrative framework that draws on Psychodynamic therapy — including Internal Family Systems (IFS), Jungian principles, and object-relations theory — as well as Existential Psychotherapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Narrative Therapy, and trauma-informed practice.

What that means in plain terms: Andrew meets each client where they are. Some people benefit from structured, skills-based work. Others need space to sit with something they’ve never said out loud. Many need both — and the approach shifts as the work deepens. His training across multiple modalities allows him to move fluidly between these registers, always in service of what the client needs in a given moment.

Andrew specializes in co-occurring disorders — the complex intersection of mental health conditions such as anxiety, depression, and trauma with substance use and behavioral addictions. He also works with individuals navigating grief, major life transitions, identity, relationship difficulties, and serious mental illness. His clinical experience spans outpatient, intensive outpatient (IOP), partial hospitalization (PHP), and outpatient detox settings — meaning he understands what clients face when stepping down from higher levels of care and what it takes to sustain progress in an outpatient context.

He has worked with diverse adult populations — including professionals in high-stakes corporate environments such as quantitative finance, pharmaceuticals, and technology who often carry the psychological weight of organizational complexity, power dynamics, and sustained ambition; young adults to older adults; members of the LGBTQI+ community; and clients from a wide range of cultural backgrounds across different generations of immigration.

Andrew is a lecturer at Rutgers University School of Social Work, where he teaches clinical courses at the MSW level — including foundations Practice I and advanced Clinical Social Work II with Individuals, Families and Groups — and has served as a lab instructor for doctoral-level statistics. His teaching spans the full arc of clinical education: from foundational practice skills for incoming MSW students to the nuanced, relational demands of advanced clinical work.

Beyond the classroom, Andrew has been invited to guest lecture at peer institutions on topics ranging from AI and predictive analytics in social work practice to the policy forces that shape clinical care. He has also organized guest panels and special instructional events that bring practicing clinicians into conversation with students — creating spaces where clinical identity, modality selection, and professional development are explored in real time.

For clients, this means your therapist is someone who doesn’t just practice — he is actively invested in shaping how the next generation of clinicians is trained.

When we talk about Andrew’s research, we start with what it means for the people sitting across from a clinician. His work is driven by a straightforward question: how can we use data and technology to make sure the right care reaches the right people — especially those who have historically been overlooked?

Andrew’s research applies artificial intelligence, machine learning, and geospatial methods to behavioral health and global poverty, grounded in a data justice framework. In practical terms, this means studying how predictive analytics can improve treatment outcomes for people living with addiction, how spatial data can reveal where communities face the greatest unmet need, and how computational tools can be used responsibly — without reproducing the inequities they aim to address. His work has examined overdose prevention, opioid use disorder treatment patterns, and the ways that place shapes access to care and health outcomes.

His published research spans peer-reviewed journals including Sustainable Cities and Society, Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, Information Processing and Management, the ACM Journal on Computing and Sustainable Societies, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, and Frontiers in Psychology, among others.