Kim M. U-Ming is a coach, integrative energy medicine therapist, and skilled teacher in executive coaching and holistic therapy. A Eurasian-Canadian born in Vancouver, she acknowledges her Portuguese, Chinese, South Asian, and Caribbean ancestry as one facet of her broader professional outlook. Her family immigrated from England to Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1970. She was born in Vancouver in the years that followed.

From early childhood she demonstrated perceptual and energetic capacities that deepened through adolescence, when she began conducting sessions that closely resembled her later professional work. This foundation continues to shape her approach. Formal professional practice commenced long ago and has since expanded to include coaching, psychotherapy, and integrative approaches. She has completed extensive and rigorous training in coaching, psychotherapeutic methods, and the healing arts, spanning both Western and holistic disciplines.

Her formal training began during a period when therapeutic approaches such as somatic therapy, trauma-informed care, and integrative energy healing were still emerging and largely unknown in mainstream practice. These highly specialised, advanced programmes integrated body, energy, mind, and spirit with psychotherapeutic principles, offering an unparalleled richness and depth often diluted in contemporary adaptations. This foundation enabled her to cultivate a nuanced understanding of human transformation, preserving the integrity of these original methods while thoughtfully adapting them to address the unique complexities of each client’s journey.

Kim’s commitment to her craft is both rigorous and reflective. She continuously engages with developments in her field, not merely adopting modern advancements but critically examining their evolution. This allows her to incorporate fresh insights while ensuring her practice remains grounded in the timeless principles that underscore transformative growth. Her work, at its core, is a dialogue between the enduring wisdom of foundational practices and evolving methodologies that meet contemporary challenges.

Being naturally intuitive, Kim’s education in meditation began in her childhood and progressed into formal meditation as a teen, with explorations in Buddhism and Advaita. Following years of study, Kim became an ordained Buddhist in ceremony through His Eminence Tai Situ Rinpoche. She has since been fortunate to have received personal instruction from some of the most respected teachers in Buddhism. Her Dharma name is Pema Yangchen. Kim’s traditional Christian background has been enhanced through the addition of the Kagyü Buddhist teachings.

In addition to her formal training, Kim has engaged in a broad range of global meditation activities: Vipassana retreats, time in monasteries in the Himalayas, retreats in Indian ashrams, teachings with the Dalai Lama, Thrangu Rinpoche, and other masters in the Tibetan Buddhist Kagyü lineage. She has visited pilgrimage sites around the globe, including Muktinath, Prasanthi Nilayam, and the biblical sites of Turkey.

Alongside her Buddhist education, Kim began practicing qigong, an ancient Chinese health system of healing and energy medicine used to cultivate health and mindfulness. She has studied with Grandmaster Liang and Master Lin. Early in her training, Master Lin invited her to take over her ancient qigong lineage.

Kim is thankful to have had the privilege of learning from many master teachers of mindfulness and enlightenment. In her work, Kim draws on these complementary channels of therapeutic and meditative training, along with her education in religious studies from Harvard Divinity School, which supports her ability to work across and in combination with various traditions. She offers a non-traditional, non-judgmental, holistic approach to success and well-being.

She has cherished the privilege of working with a diverse range of clients, including artists, physicians, educators, business magnates, athletes, celebrities, and wellness teams. She has specifically been sought out to help address issues in the fields of spiritual crisis and awakening, meditation, altered states, and supporting gifted and highly sensitive individuals, as well as trauma recovery, intense synchronicity, and more day-to-day concerns in the business, interpersonal, and intrapersonal realms.

In her spare time, Kim may be found sharing quality time with loved ones, engaging in one of her many hobbies, enjoying the outdoors, or curled up with a good book and her dog, Augustus. These moments of reflection and connection inspire her work, as she remains deeply committed to helping others achieve their fullest potential with compassion, precision, and care.