Kim graduated from California State University, Sacramento, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in social work. She went to work for the prison system as a correctional counselor where she piloted the Breaking Barriers program for CDC inmates. She then took a diversion counselor position with the Sutter County Sheriff’s Department, and she began facilitating Domestic Violence Diversion groups (Batterers’ Treatment). Later, she worked as a counselor at a shelter for female survivors of domestic violence and their children. There she provided counseling and advocacy services and gained perspective on the “other side” of family violence. 

Kim works as a probation officer, and she facilitates nine groups per week in the Day Reporting Center including two weekly Batterer’s Treatment Groups.  She has been instrumental in developing and growing the cognitive behavioral programs offered there, including the Batterers’ Treatment Program.

Kim has extensive training in the areas of domestic violence, sexual assault, cognitive behavioral theory, and group facilitation. Due to Covid-19, Kim has facilitated all groups via Zoom for nearly a year, and she founded Oliva Programs in an effort to reach more individuals in need of program completion and life change. She believes competent, qualified, caring facilitators with a strong foundation of subject area knowledge are an important component of any CBT program.