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I have experience working in mental health care for a variety of patients across the spectrum of physical and mental illnesses, including psychosomatic disorders, complex PTSD, depression and cancer. More than the illness, I am committed to “seeing / viewing the individual in front of me”, and “valuing their autonomy / independence”. While focusing on the concepts of counselling and mindfulness through active listening, I teach mindfulness meditation, implement and suggest touch-based mindfulness and act as a guide and listener during focusing. I keep medications to a minimum and always try to reduce their amount. I also respect the wishes and pace of each individual and hope to help them lead a more balanced and fulfilling life. I also make referrals and suggestions to specialists when necessary.
Counselling
Although there are many different types of counseling around the world, my style of counseling is the person-centred therapy found by the psychologist Carl Ransom Rogers. During the session, I try to understand the client’s story through active listening and in most cases, I will include my experience, advice and suggestions. However, if the client in quetions prefers ’just active listening’, that is also possible.
Mindfulness Meditation
Mindfulness meditation is the foundation of what I offer and is the most important element in the programme. It can be used as a form of therapy for illness, but it can also be of great benefit to people with unwellness and worries. It is more of a technique or skill, than a therapy. Mindfulness meditation can be practised by anyone, so can be practised in combination with counselling, depending on the symptoms and condition in question. The aim is to help individuals to become more mindful of thier minds and bodies. By truly becoming present in the ‘here and now’, I will help you to have an unshakable sense of reassurance and hope within yourself.
Online Group Mindfulness Meditation
It is often difficult to develop and stick to habits. By participating in a regular online group, we aim to make mindfulness meditation a daily habit. Participants who participate for a period of time may find that they experience individual and group meditation differently.
Weekdays: Mon-Wed-Fri 5:55am - 6:30am.
* No practice day in August 2024: 12th (Mon)
Sat/Sun: August 2024
3rd Aug (Sat) 08:55am - 10:00am
17th Aug (Sat) 11:55am - 1:00pm
25th Aug (Sun) 0:55pm -2:00pm
31st Aug (Sat) 09:55am - 11:00am
Focusing
Focusing is a psychotherapy discovered in the 1960s by an American philosopher and psychologist, Eugene Tovio Gendlin, and, like mindfulness, it is universally accepted and is a type of technique or skill. Please see below for the differences between the two therapies. Focusing is also recommended for people who want to develop self-compassion (and/or self-confidence).
Touch-Based Mindfulness
Touch-based mindfulness is a method developed in my practice of Tactile Care ®︎ with patients. Tactile Care ®︎ is simply an ‘attentive touch’ (massage). It is now practised mainly on dementia and cancer patients, but it was originally a therapy for premature babies. Mindfulness can be understood intellectually, but it can still be difficult to understand experientially. I use touch-based mindfulness as an aid to facilitate correct understanding of mindfulness and mindfulness meditation.
Strength Coaching
It is provided using Gallup's CliftonStrengths®︎. See below for the difference between counselling and coaching.
Strengths Coaching believes that a person's personality is made up of a sequence of 34 qualities. By answering the CliftonStrengths®︎ questions, you can find out your own ranking of the 34 qualities, and the top 10 qualities are considered as your talents. We help you to become more aware of your talents by listening to yourself. We also coach you so that you can use your talents to achieve the goals you have set for yourself.
Group Courses
I offer courses that enable participants to discuss and think about health and well-being, while sharing my own ideas, which I have come up with after working with a variety of patients. I believe that through the course, everyone will understand how different each person's coping (conscious dealing with stress) and mindful experience can be. We hope that this understanding will help you to feel and value yourself and those around and close to you more than you did before taking the course. At the end of the course, I would like to offer the time to practise mindful breathing together.
Hours and fees
セッション時間
［ 平日 ］11:00 / 13:00 / 15:00 / 17:00
［ Zoomの場合 ］8:30〜10:00の90分、開始時間が19:00〜20:30も対応いたします。
＊土日祝日：時間帯は相談して対応いたします。下記の追加料金が別途発生いたします。
料金
［ 基本料金 ］
初回2時間：28,000円
2回目以降90分：18,000円
土日祝日：追加料金15,000円
［ 6回セッション - 半年以内 ］
1回90分：15,000円
（まとめ払い：80,000円）
土日祝日：追加料金7,500円
Session fee - Please check the document "Description on fees" below.
Session start time - Please check the documents of consent forms below.
*Answers to the CliftonStrengths®︎ questions will be charged separately.