Chip Kimura, MFA
LP Intern
Each person perceives and engages with the world in their own particular way, at the time and place from which they speak. As we work together we will look at the world through your particular lens from material of the day, relationships, personal and intergenerational histories, dreams, reveries, judgements, frustrations, and desires.
My method of working uses a psychoanalytic frame that centers free association and transferential dynamics that allows each treatment to find its own structure. Listening for how the symbolic functions in the formation of symptoms and behavioral patterns can facilitate psychic movement.
As a cultural worker I am interested in the distinct forms of support that each creative expression requires to flourish. My dance training brings awareness to how the body stores and responds to internal and external data. I am attuned to how systemic forms of violence and oppression affect experiences of gender, race, class, ability, and sense of self in the social field. I invite patients to disentangle what feels unbearable, to open up space for a life they want.
Chip Kimura is a candidate in psychoanalytic training at Pulsion Institute, and a psychodynamic psychotherapy intern at Rose Hill Clinic. With an MA in Performance Studies from NYU, MFA from Hunter College, and BA in Sculpture from Bard College.