Dr. Wanyoung Kim-Murphy (first name pronounced 'Won young', and also published as "Wanyoung Kim") is an American clinical psychology professional and researcher, consultant psychoanalyst and psychotherapist, philosopher, creative artist, and applied researcher in law and product or UI/UX design, whose work explores consciousness, subjectivity, and human experience.

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-Murphy's work in private practice as a clinican, medical health researcher, and accredited life coach and spiritual director, 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-Murphy offers various professional consultations and services to clients, including spiritual direction, life coaching, and therapy, at this website, and she currently welcomes new clients in Europe, as well as in the Americas, and neighbouring time zones.

Dr. Kim-Murphy has edited books for Palgrave, Cambridge, and Bloomsbury publishing houses. She is also a multilingual certified translator, with 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 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.


As a confirmed Catholic, Dr. Kim traces her direct family recorded lineage to the noble Gyeongju Kim clan and Haman Lee clan of the two Koreas, with centuries of both Seon Buddhism practiced by the monks of Bodhidharma and Christian practice stemming from missionary conversion.