Services

  • INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING
  • COUPLE COUNSELING (including premarital counseling)
  • FAMILY COUNSELING
  • WELLNESS CONSULTATION & LIFE COACHING

For individual counseling, if your main challenge is about your family member(s), spouse or significant other, we might invite them to sessions as they could offer valuable input and possibly help alleviate your problem.

For couple counseling, please note that it is very important and essential that the both of you start our work together at the same time. For it would be difficult for the therapist to be unbiased and thus it would be unfair to your spouse/partner when only one member shows up for the first session and the other member joins later.

Wellness consultation and life coaching are offered to those who do not have signs of distress or clinical symptoms such as sleep disturbance, anxiety and depressed feeling.  These sessions are typically focused on specific and short-term goals.

ISSUES/CHALLENGES

INDIVIDUAL CLIENTS

  • Relationship/interpersonal difficulty (family, friends, romantic partners)
  • Marital problems, parenting
  • Loss experience (bereavement, illness, infertility, divorce, unemployment, loss of a pet)
  • Anxiety, phobia, panic attack, PTSD, depression, apathy, social isolation, homesickness
  • Work-related issues (interpersonal difficulty, pressure, stress, carrier change)
  • Adjustment (overseas assignment, relocation, new employment)
  • Major life transitions (marriage, childbirth, divorce, midlife crisis, empty nest, retirement)
  • Burnout, caretaker’s fatigue, self-care
  • Personality issues (low self-esteem, anger management）
  • Life purpose, existential/spirituality issues

COUPLES

  • Communication difficulty
  • Cross-cultural issues in international/interracial marriage or relationship
  • Infidelity, betrayal, intimacy issues, infertility
  • Prospect of divorce
  • Premarital counseling / Couple Checkup

APPROACH

My approach is collaborative, integrative, and strength-based. I treat each client as a unique individual and your treatment will be tailored to your specific therapeutic goals.

Together, we might look into your thinking and behavioral patterns and explore your past experiences, significant life events, family/relationship history and so forth. To help manage your anxiety, worries, fear, anger, sadness, loneliness, jealousy or tension, you will learn helpful tools and various techniques including, but are not limited to, mindfulness, effective interpersonal and communication skills, relaxation, self-care, decision making skills and healthy lifestyles depending on your therapeutic needs.  

Use of supplements and aromatherapy may be discussed and incorporated for clients who are interested in using them to help manage their stress, anxiety and/or insomnia.

If you have a particular religious or spiritual background, your faith, beliefs and values will be respected and can be integrated in our work.

OUTCOME

Past clients have reported positive changes including the following:

  • Improved communication at home/work/school
  • Improved relationships (no constant fighting; increased connection/satisfaction)
  • Reduced stress/anxiety/depressed feeling/irritability
  • Increased motivation/performance/efficiency (school acceptance; passing exams)
  • Job/career change/improvement
  • Increased social connection/support
  • Increased self-esteem
  • Resolved grief, trauma
  • General sense of happiness/well-being
  • Found direction/purpose/meaning in life

Are you..

– feeling blue, alone, stuck, irritable, drained or stressed out?

– having difficulty forming healthy, loving relationships or meaningful friendships? 

– anxious about your future or unclear about what direction to take in your life?

– going through a transition and need some guidance and encouragement?

– from a foreign country and experiencing communication barriers or having difficulty “fitting in?”

Perhaps you..

– feel like there is no one who truly understands your pain or feelings.

– are exhausted from trying over and over and yet seeing no results (for a harmonious relationship, a healthy lifestyle, a real career, etc.) 

– just need someone who sits with you and listens to your story, without judgment.

– want to understand yourself better, connect with your genuine self and realize your uniqueness and wonderfulness.

– are ready to live a fulfilling life!   

Please contact Tomomi for help!!