Living in Tokyo can be very rewarding in many ways. Advancing your career and following your interests in such a culturally rich and technologically advanced country as Japan can be a very positive, challenging and satisfying part of your life as well as being a good environment for your personal growth. Life in Tokyo and Japan is not however by any means stress free. The experience of living and working within Japanese society is not always an easy one and one that is not without frustration and difficulty at times.

Individual Counseling and Psychotherapy

At Tokyo Counseling Services the emphasis is on a client centered integrative approach to both individual counseling and individual psychotherapy. Naturally all counselors and psychotherapists at TCS vary their approach to suit each individual client in accordance with the particular problems the client is having.

Counseling and psychotherapy can be of benefit for many different kinds of problems that can affect your mental well being. Among the range of emotional, cognitive and situational problems people come for individual therapy to help them cope with are: depression, anxiety disorders, eating disorders, anger management, stress management, communication problems, coping with grief, international and multicultural adjustment issues.

Couples and Marriage Counseling

Any couple or marriage can experience times of difficulty and stress within the relationship. Unexpected events can shake even the most stable marriage or partnership, unforeseen setbacks and losses can cause strain and tension among members of even the most loving and happy family. Counseling with an experienced couples and marriage therapist can provide fresh insight and help you to move beyond the issues you are going through and promote change and help you to find solutions together. Couples counseling is effective for a wide range of issues that could cause problems for your family including, but not limited to: communication problems, trust in your relationship and mutual respect issues, multicultural family issues, international marriage issues, differing values and expectations, intimacy and sexual problems, divorce mediation and support, depression, anxiety, trauma and domestic violence.

Family Therapy

Whether you are a young couple with your first child or a long established family with grandchildren someone you care about could come to suffer from depression, an anxiety disorder, an eating disorder or an addiction.

The reasons for these problems could be as a result of life events such as accidents, sudden illness, injury or the loss of a loved one. Alternatively it could be as a result of stress and tensions within the family relationships. Sometimes it can be or a combination of both.

In times of family crisis and overwhelming stress at home, family therapy can help you find support, deeper understanding and solutions to even the most difficult of problems or seemingly intractable disruptions to your normal family life. Family therapy is effective for a wide range of issues that could cause problems for your family.

Group Therapy and Workshop Programs

At TCS group therapy programs are open to approximately 5 to 8 individuals who meet together with a trained and experienced therapist to get help and support with the emotional and personal problems and the stress they face in their everyday lives and working environments in Tokyo. These groups usually take the form of once a week sessions over a ten-week period with each session lasting two hours. Throughout the ten weeks TCS professionals support all members in the experience of encountering and interacting with others in the group in a caring, compassionate and relaxing atmosphere.
TCS counseling professionals are all qualified and licensed Clinical Psychologists. Our Psychotherapists are qualified and registered by The Japan Federation for Psychotherapy.

The Tokyo Counseling Service was created to help and support Tokyo area residents manage and cope with unreasonable and unhealthy levels of stress, anxiety, anger, depression, and frustration in their personal and professional lives.

All counselors and psychotherapists on the team at the TCS counseling center in Shimokitazawa are qualified mental health professionals who have been specifically educated, trained and supervised to provide mental health care services in Japan. They are expert and well experienced in providing caring and effective counseling and psychotherapy for a wide range of conditions and problems including, but not limited to, the following:

Interpersonal Relationships

feeling nervous or irritable with other people, experiencing difficulty in getting along with or feeling misunderstood by other people, not getting along well with family members, difficulties with forming intimate relationships.

Personal Problems

stress, anxiety, depression, emotional distress, lacking energy, marriage and relationship problems, sexual relationships, personal conflict, lacking in confidence, isolation, loneliness, anxiety disorders, feelings of panic, panic attacks, compulsive behavior, family crisis, trauma, PTSD, childhood abuse, sexual abuse, domestic violence.

Job Related

feeling unsatisfied at work, too much stress, experiencing high levels of anxiety or panic in meetings and other professional working situations, depression, lack of focus, loss of concentration, loss of confidence, experiencing interpersonal problems with colleagues, working in Japanese and international companies.

Living in Multicultural Japan

international couples, international marriage and relationships, communication problems, divorce issues in Japan, cross cultural adaptation, adjusting (readjusting) to living in Japanese society, communicating in multicultural environments.