A Little Bit About Me

Dr. Wanyoung Emmanuel Jeremiah von Lee Kim-Murphey (also published under the name "Wanyoung Kim-Murphy") is a clinical psychoanalytic psychotherapist, philosopher, designer, creative artist, and applied researcher whose work explores consciousness, subjectivity, and human experience.

An American of South Korean noble descent, she is trained in both philosophy and psychology, and holds a PhD in Philosophy, Art, and Critical Thought from the European Graduate School, an MA in Philosophy from The New School for Social Research, and an MSc in Psychology from Capella University, all earned with high honours or distinction.

Dr. Kim's work in private practice as a clinican, medical health researcher, accredited life director, and spiritual coaching therapist combines Freudo-Lacanian analysis and clinical thought with informational dynamic field theory, phenomenological, existential, and contemplative therapy drawing from Early Buddhism and Mahayana (including Tibetan and Zen Buddhism), as well as Catholic theology, offering a space of transformative healing and self-understanding for every patient.
Dr. Kim-Murphey offers various professional consultations and services to clients, including spiritual direction, life coaching, and therapy, at this website.

Dr. Emmanuel von Lee Kim-Murphey has edited books for Palgrave, Cambridge, and Bloomsbury publishing houses. She is also a multilingual certified translator, with a forthcoming publication of Jean Baruzi's 'St. John of the Cross and the Problem of Mystical Experience', translated to English, as well as published English translations, from French, of Alain Badiou's Nietzsche Seminar I, 1992-1993 (which has been cited widely and also been translated to Serbian), and philosophical essays by Gilles Deleuze and Maurice Blanchot. Her translation of 'St. John of the Cross and the Problem of Mystical Experience' will be released in early 2026, completed as a post-doctoral research project over two years. Her PhD dissertation monograph, 'Cosmophenomenology: The Alterity and Harmony of Consciousness' (2019), proposed an early framework for a physicalist yet post-materialist understanding of consciousness, anticipating directions now explored in theoretical physics and cognitive science.


Dr. Kim is of full noble heritage and birth. Along with South Korean and North Korean ancestry, she happens to be also of Dutch-German and Japanese cultural descent, and also has a direct living link to the ancient Mona druids of Wales (Angelsey), as well as the ancient Chan Buddhist monks of Bodhidharma through Seon. Dr. Kim traces her ancestral family lineage to the royal Gyeongju Kim clan and Haman Lee clan, respectively, of the two Koreas.