Episode notes
In this episode of Faith and Feels, I sit down with Dr. Esther Park, a board-certified child, adolescent, and adult psychiatrist with over 20 years of outpatient clinical experience. Dr. Park shares her powerful journey from medical school to discovering her true calling in psychiatry, and how that shift led to the birth of something much bigger than herself.
Together, we talk about her work as co-founder of Oak Health Center, a for-profit mental health clinic that accepts insurance, and the heart behind its nonprofit counterpart, Oak Health Foundation. Dr. Park unpacks how this Christian-based foundation is working to reduce mental health stigma, prevent suicide, and provide donor-funded care through its out-of-pocket clinic, Fully Health.
I loved hearing how she integrates faith, mental health, and community outreach with a ...
Keywords
Asian American Mental Healthfaith based counselingsexual brokennessshame and forgivenessChristian counselingtraumahealingChristian communityfather woundsmental healthpsychotherapysingle parentingdomestic violencespiritual disciplinemother wounds