JapanDoug Berger, M.D., Ph.D., American Board-Certified Psychiatrist
Location: Ebisu-Shibuya area of Tokyo, Japan (Phone and Skype counseling also available).
Phone: 03-3716-6624, +81-3-3716-6624 (calling from outside of Japan)
Email: Please use contact form on website
Website: www.megurocounseling.com
Nationality: USA
Languages Spoken: English (native), Japanese (native-level), Chinese (conversational)
Religious Affiliation:
Clinical Specialties: Adults, couples, and child/adolescent counseling, psychotherapy, and medication management.
Cross-Cultural Experience: Many years in Japan as a medical student, psychiatric researcher, and psychotherapist. Director of the Meguro Counseling Center, located in the Shibuya-Ebisu area of central Tokyo, Japan. M.D. and psychiatry residency at New York Medical College. Ph.D., from Tokyo University, Dept. of Psychosomatic Medicine.
Roy Huggins, MS NCC
Location: Japan (via Skype/phone), Portland, OR, USA
Phone: 50-5532-9084 (Japan), 503-839-4825 (USA)
Email: info@alljapancounseling.com, info@portland-counseling-therapy.com
Website: www.alljapancounseling.com, www.portland-counseling-therapy.com
Nationality: USA
Languages Spoken: English, upper-intermediate Japanese
Religious Affiliation: None presently. Have had contact with Catholicism, Mormonism, and various Earth-based religions.
Clinical Specialties: International couples, Cultural adjustment, discrimination, people with trauma history/complex PTSD, JET Programme participants.
Cross-Cultural Experience: I lived in Sapporo for three years as a JET ALT. At that time I also did counseling for other English speakers in association with Health Hokkaido. Now I’m in full-time practice out of Portland, Oregon USA, where I specialize in working with international folks including American returnees and international couples.
Sandra Kimball
Location: Australia and Japan
Phone: 0458 175 962; Skype Name: sandrakimball
Email: sandra@internationalcounselling.com or byroncounselling@gmail.com
Website: www.internationalcounselling.com and www.sandrakimball.com.au
Nationality: Australian/American
Languages Spoken: English
Religious Affiliation: An integrated approach
Clinical Specialties: Please see website
Cross-Cultural Experience: 10 years international counselling experience in Japan. Practice is now web-based and clients are living in Japan as well as in Europe, Asia, and Australia.
Ans Kobashi-Schoot, Clinical Psychologist
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Phone: (03) 3417-7028 from inside Japan, or +81-3-3417-7028 from abroad
Email: ans.kobashi@gmail.com
Website: www.IMHPJ.org
Nationality: Dutch
Languages Spoken: English and Dutch
Religious Affiliation:
Clinical Specialties: Helping multi-cultural English speaking couples and individuals (adults and adolescents) from various countries, who are struggling with cross-cultural adjustment, relationships, anxiety and grief.
Cross-Cultural Experience: I have lived and worked in Japan for over 25 years, and experienced working with expats and the foreign community in Tokyo and surroundings.
Gayle Olsen, LMSW
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Phone: 03-3400-1063
Email: Gayle@OCC-Japan.com
Website: https://sites.google.com/a/occ-japan.com/tokyo-japan-counseling-psychotherapy/
Nationality: USA
Languages Spoken: English
Religious Affiliation: Jewish, but highly experienced covering multiple religious and cultural affiliations
Clinical Specialties: Adolescent and Family, Individual and Couples. Cross-cultural adjustment. Stress and Trauma. Community Programs and Seminars. Corporate Wellness Programs.
Cross-Cultural Experience: I have lived and raised a family overseas for 24 years during which time I have worked as the Executive Director of an International Counseling Organization (Tokyo English Life LIne); been a consultant for the international schools in Tokyo; worked as an in-house counselor for an international School; maintained a private practice; and conducted various seminars and workshops for schools, organizations and corporations serving the international community.
Reggie Pawle, Ph.D.
Location: Kyoto and Osaka, Japan
Phone: 075-781-2252
Email: reggiepawle@yahoo.com
Website: www.reggiepawle.net
Nationality: USA
Languages Spoken: English, mid-level Japanese
Religious Affiliation: Buddhist/Christian; member of an interdenominational study group
Clinical Specialties: Important issues for individuals and couples, adults and teenagers, including: anxiety, depression, anger, stress, relationships, eating disorders, substance abuse, gender, identity, life changes, and cross-cultural issues.
Cross-Cultural Experience: I have lived in Japan since 1999 and am married to a Japanese woman. I teach cross-cultural psychology to foreign university students who are doing their third year in Japan at Kansai Gaidai University. My travels outside the US have been frequent since beginning in 1972. I use both Western and non-Western methods in psychotherapy, according to the needs of the client(s). My research focus is on integrating research from cross-cultural psychology, including research on non-Western psychologies, into psychotherapy work with all nationalities.
Scott Smith, LCSW
Location: Tokyo, Japan
Phone: 03-5570-5225 (from outside Japan, dial 81+3-5570-5225)
Email: scottsmith@hotmail.co.jp
Website: www.japantherapist.net
Nationality: USA
Languages Spoken: English and Japanese
Religious Affiliation: I was raised Episcopalian, but I do not attend any church at the moment
Clinical Specialties: Adolescents and their families; relationship problems; depression and anxiety
Cross-Cultural Experience: Resident of Japan since 1984, bilingual (married to Japanese woman), teenage son attends international school here in Tokyo. Lots of experience counseling ex-pats since the early 1990s.
Nan Yamada, LCSW
Location: Tokyo, Japan; also distance counseling for people all over the country without access to services in their area
Phone: 03-3498-0231 [from abroad (+81 3-3498-0231)]
Email: clinical.assist@telljp.com
Website: www.telljp.com
Nationality: USA
Languages Spoken: English, Japanese
Religious Affiliation: none
Clinical Specialties: Mood disorders, Cultural adjustment, Japanese returnees, Relationship issues, JET Programme participants
Cross-Cultural Experience: I have lived in Japan since 1973, when I came here to study the Tea Ceremony. I have been married to a Japanese man since 1975 and lived in ordinary Japanese neighborhoods for 30+ years and now live outside Tokyo (Nagano Prefecture). Before becoming a therapist, I worked in several Japanese workplaces and earned a Master’s Degree in Comparative Culture at International Christian U. in Tokyo, and later worked at its Counseling Center. I received my MSW from Boston University in 1997 – that experience was a great exercise in reverse culture shock that I find very valuable now in my work. I have worked with clients from every continent but Antarctica. I am a long-time member of International Mental Health Professionals Japan (www.imhpj.org) and serve on its Board.