Wellful Therapy

07/11/2025

A sticky metaphor is one of my favorite tools in therapy. Here I share the metaphor of The Hungry Tiger from ACT Therapy, and what it can teach us about emotional intelligence and mental wellbeing.

https://www.wellfultherapy.com/blog/emotional-avoidance-and-the-hungry-tiger

Do you struggle with workaholism, perfectionism, procrastination, or other compulsive behaviors? Perhaps you can't break a habit of binge eating, doomscrolling, or codependency. See how the metaphor of The Hungry Tiger from ACT Therapy can help us understand how numbing and avoiding our underlying e

06/19/2025

As both a therapist and a trained yoga teacher, I love exploring the intersection between the two. This month I'm writing about just one of the amazing reasons yoga can be so beneficial therapeutically. Enjoy!

This morning I stumbled on a page from one of my old yoga teacher notebooks. It was a list of prompts I often used in class to guide my students—specifically in my yin yoga classes, where patience, stillness, and discomfort are often some of the most challenging parts of the practice...

01/13/2025

01/17/2024

✔ New year ✔ New practice ✔ New office

Excited to share that I will now be seeing clients as an LMFT both virtually and out of my office in Old Town Pasadena. Since the new year, I have also completed training to expand my ability to offer EMDR therapy to clients as well.

At this time I do have a waitlist for new clients, but you can continue to find more information at kimbielak.com.

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10/17/2022

Talking work-life balance on Shoutout LA today, and how my own understanding of what balance looks like has changed over time.

https://shoutoutla.com/meet-kim-bielak-associate-marriage-family-therapist/

We had the good fortune of connecting with Kim Bielak and we've shared our conversation below. Hi Kim, how has your work-life balance changed over time? Over time I've come to learn that work-life balance is not something that's static. It doesn't always look like strict boundaries around email

09/25/2022

“Maybe you didn’t ask for this chapter of your story, the one that feels like a winding road with no end in sight. Yet, here you are with fortitude. Showing up for every turn in the path. Like a river curving and carving along the edges of the banks, you are a force to be reckoned with, here to become who you were always meant to be.”

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09/09/2022

So...how does therapy actually work? Why there's more than meets the eye in that hour a week.

Marriage & family therapist Kim Bielak explores how neuroplasticity and the healing power of relationship are core reasons why therapy - from traditional talk therapy and CBT, to somatic therapy and EMDR - work.

09/09/2022

Are you too "needy"? Today on UpJourney I break down what it can mean to need constant reassurance in your relationship.

https://lnkd.in/enh2maiF

Your partner doesn’t express their love the same way you would, you have a weak sense of self, your partner is doing shady behaviors, etc.

09/09/2022

What should you make of false accusations in your relationship? I add a few things you might want to consider on PsychCentral.com.

https://lnkd.in/gHfQG7iQ

Here are the most common causes and psychological effects of false accusations in a relationship and how to handle being accused when innocent.