Tokyo Counseling

While controversy still remains regarding distinctions between normal grief, complicated grief and pathological grief, and the relationship between depression and grief, grief counseling can be useful for some who have suffered a loss of someone close. If you would like to discuss if grief counseling is right for you, please call us. We are here to help.

Tokyo Mental Health can provide online counseling and phone counseling for those in Japan who do not have easy access to Tokyo. Please enquire if you would like more information about this.

Counseling has many meanings, and in the sense of ‘giving guidance and advice’ there are many services in Japan that provide counseling. In contrast, the non-directive psychological counseling so familiar to us in the West remains on some level an unfamiliar model of care in Japan. Certain types of counseling and psychological treatment (called ???????) are available at Japanese psychiatry clinics with Japanese psychiatrists under the Japanese health insurance system, but the style of delivery may be alien to those raised abroad. Many private companies, often linked to psychiatry clinics, also provide counseling services for a fee with Japanese clinical psychologists. However, outside of Tokyo and other major cities it can be difficult to access such services.

Not sure psychological counseling at Tokyo Mental Health is right for you? Prefer to find other reputable Tokyo counselors? International Mental Health Professionals Japan (IMHPJ) is a Tokyo-based organization that seeks to serve as a professional body for foreign counselors in Tokyo to help maintain professional and ethical standards. IMHPJ has an active website where you can find profiles and contact details for members.