Collaboration

Where I Collaborate

My work has always crossed boundaries - between body and mind, between Korean and conventional medicine, between clinical practice and public policy. These are the places where that crossing happens.

National Policy and Public Institutions

I serve as a civilian member of the 7th Central Safety Management Public-Private Cooperation Committee under the Ministry of the Interior and Safety, and I have advised the planning task force for the Ministry of Health and Welfare’s 5th Comprehensive Plan for the Promotion and Development of Korean Medicine. With the National Institute for Korean Medicine Development I have advised on the development of an ADHD clinical pathway in Korean Medicine, on the use of Korean Medicine resources in disaster response, and on cooperation among public medical institutions. From July 2026 I lead a study on the experience of using Korean Medicine resources within the public healthcare system’s disaster response, and on improving that system. My role in these settings is the same: to carry what I have learned in the consulting room into the language of systems, and to help those systems come closer to a single person’s suffering.

Academic Societies

I serve as senior vice-president of the Korean Society of M&L Psychotherapy and as vice-president of the Korean Medicine Society for Breastfeeding, and I am a longtime member of the Korean Society of Oriental Neuropsychiatry, where I have served as a director. My role across these societies has been constant: to bring trauma-informed and mindfulness-based psychotherapy into the mainstream of Korean Medicine.

International Connections

As the Korean representative for Brainspotting, I connect Korean clinicians with the international Brainspotting community, and from 2027 I will take part in training therapists. My research appears in international journals, including the International Journal of Qualitative Methods and the Journal of Attention Disorders (in press). In 2025, with Professor Lidia Zylowska, I co-wrote “How to thrive as an adult with ADHD” for the international magazine Psyche - her clinician’s guide is one of the books I translated into Korean - and we presented together at the CHADD international conference (“Embracing Wholeness: Mindful Self-Coaching for Adult ADHD”). I welcome international collaboration in women’s mental health, adult ADHD, trauma-informed care, disaster and public mental health, and integrative mental health.

Conversations I Welcome

I welcome dialogue with researchers, clinicians, and institutions working in women’s mental health, adult ADHD and neurodiversity, trauma-informed care, mindfulness-based psychotherapy, disaster and public mental health, and integrative approaches to mental health.

Conversations I would especially welcome:

  • Women’s ADHD and neurodiversity - international collaborative research, including qualitative and mixed-methods work, text-mining, scoping reviews, and protocol development.
  • Disaster mental health and Korean Medicine within public healthcare systems - in both research and policy settings.
  • Lectures and clinician training in Korean Medicine neuropsychiatry, Brainspotting, and somatic psychotherapy, including trauma-informed and mindfulness-based practitioner training.
  • What it takes for mental-health technologies and AI tools to be clinically safe and culturally attuned - including the Korean and wider Asian context.
  • Conversations with institutions developing programs in women’s mental health, ADHD, and trauma-informed care.

This is an open door rather than a proposal. Good collaboration, I have found, always begins with a single conversation.

seojoohee@nmc.or.kr

ORCID: 0000-0001-7473-9412

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Department of Neuropsychiatry of Korean Medicine, National Medical Center, Seoul