Psychotherapist - Licensed Professional Counselor

​I am non-judgmental, warm and compassionate.

I continue to marvel that one could build a successful career for the endlessly fascinating endeavor of applying scientific principles of psychology, neuroscience and meditation to the relief of human suffering and the enhancement of human functioning.

​"True community is based upon equality, mutuality, and reciprocity. It affirms the richness of individual diversity as well as the common human ties that bind us together." - Pauli Murray

David Young Oh is a psychotherapist and sex therapist in private practice in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area.

​After completing his undergraduate and graduate training in scientific research at Boston University, he trained at the Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, where he examined psychoanalytic theory and trained to understand people in their full complexity, including: how people develop their emotional and mental lives, how people operate from motivations that are outside their own awareness, and how to work with a full range of pathologies. In efforts to continue his clinical and professional training, he completed another set of graduate degree requirements at the Johns Hopkins University. There, he focused on improving the lives of diverse clientele with severe and ordinary mental health concerns through a social justice lens.

He is the founder of the Radical Healing collective and is co-developing a year long mental health practitioner training program to provide mental health services using an anti-oppression and social justice lens.  He is a certified practitioner of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), certified facilitator of Our Whole Lives Sexuality Education (7-9th Grade and 10-12 Grade), and is the current President of the local chapter of the Association for Psychological Type. 

He is a member of many professional organizations, including the Licensed Professional Counselors Association of North Carolina, American Counseling Association, Society for the Scientific Study of Sexuality, Association of LGBT Issues in Counseling, American Association of Sex Educators, Counselors and Therapists, World Professional Association of Transgender Health.

Reflecting his wide range of interests, he has authored several scholarly articles in peer reviewed journals as well as several chapters in textbooks and books related to moral engagement, cross cultural attitudes of war and peace, LGBT identity, sexology, psychological type and HIV treatment education and advocacy. He has served as a technical editor of an SPSS statistic book and is currently authoring a book chapter on counseling LGBT youth.

He has a long history of support to many local, national, and international not-for-profits and a special interest in supporting marginalized and underserved communities through empowerment, equity and mutuality. He currently volunteers as a sexuality education facilitator for middle school students and provides free or reduced fee counseling to individuals who would otherwise not be able to access treatment. 

As an avid traveler with a great interest in cross cultural identity, he has traveled to many countries on 5 continents. In addition to living and studying in the United States, he has spent considerable time in Salamanca, Spain, Seoul, South Korea and Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Outside of his work in counseling, sexology, psychology, and travel, David enjoys yoga, running, painting, hiking, gardening, community activism and a good cup of coffee. David lives in Durham with his husband, dog, cat, chickens and fish.

In my Raleigh-Durham counseling studio, I integrate Western and Eastern medicine, including neuroscience, psychology and meditation, for the treatment of mental health disorders and other general life concerns.

"Everything can be taken from a person but one thing: the last of the human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own way." - Viktor Frankl

​To become acquainted, please send me a message through the link below, and we can find a time to collaborate.

I AM NOT CURRENTLY ABLE TO ACCEPT NEW CLIENTS AT THIS TIME. NEW CLIENT APPOINTMENTS WILL BE AVAILABLE IN SPRING 2018.

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NON-DISCRIMINATION & INCLUSION STATEMENT

Systems of power, privilege, and oppression have traditionally created barriers for persons and groups with particular identities, ages, abilities, and histories. I pledge to do all I can to replace such barriers with ever-widening circles of solidarity and mutual respect. I strive to be a center for health and healing that truly welcomes all persons and commits to structuring the center in ways that empower and enhance everyone’s participation.

I belong to a collective of healers who intentionally welcome all. We foster a climate of purposeful inclusion, an environment where all can feel safe, valued, cared for, and given an opportunity to form meaningful connections with each other. We value the diversity of differences which includes (but is not limited to) gender identity and its expression, age, race, ethnicity, and national origin, range of abilities, sexual orientation, financial means, family structure, educational and class status and political perspective.