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[:en]Stressed?Take a mindful moment to get some relief, with this simple breathing exercise!For help managing persistent anxiety or stress, visit our counseling and psychotherapy page to contact us, and set up a session with one of our experienced providers![:]

What is the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory?

Author: Jasmina Sandor M.A., Psychologist  The MMPI service is currently unavailable at Tokyo Mental Health. Please visit our psychology testing page to learn more about other available options. The Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI, or the MMPI-2) is the most widely used test for measuring personality psychopathology in the world. It was developed at the […]

Breathing Exercise to Control anxiety

Dr. Lena Akai, at American Clinic Tokyo, offers an evidence based breathing exercise to help control anxiety. Give it a try! To learn more about anxiety management and to book a session with one of TMH’s experienced providers, visit our Counseling and Therapy page at https://www.tokyomentalhealth.com/counseling-and-psychotherapy/

A note on Resilience

Nicole Gordon Adversity, like change, is an expected part of life. At various points in our lives we will all experience some kind of major challenge or difficulty, which can potentially have major negative effects on our mental health. While some people appear to manage and bounce back from these crises with minimal affect on […]

Body Image and How it Relates to Mental Health

Mental Health Awareness Week 2019 was hosted by the Mental Health Foundation, which is the UK’s charity for everyone’s mental health. The purpose of the awareness initiative is to highlight the problems and stigmas related to talking about and diagnosing mental health issues. Every year, a theme is chosen to help shed light on an […]

Suicides among Japanese youth hit 30-year high: How to help

For the past 12 decades, Japan has been presenting high suicide rates, for being a highly developed country. Suicide rates are often measured per 100 000 people, and from 1998 until 2011, the rate in Japan was 26.1 per 100 000 people. Since 2011 rates have declined (16.7 per 100 000 people), but suicide is […]

International Women’s Day: Gender and Depression

Sunna Trebbin Harvard Depression is one of the most common mental illnesses, as 4.4% of the entire global population are struggling with the hardships related to the illness (WHO, 2017). Depression is more common among women. When only looking at the female population, prevalence rates of depression rises up to 5.1%. There is no consensus […]

Dreading the Holidays? Five Tips for Coping with Holiday Stress

  Family get-togethers, Christmas gifts, parties, New Year’s resolutions and bucket lists – while they are meant to bring feelings of peace, hope and love, for many of us, they can also be a major cause of holiday stress. It is too easy to overspend during preparations. Gift shopping can become an obligation that annually […]

What talking therapy for me?

There are many types of so-called talking therapy and with each practitioner claiming that `their` particular brand of talking therapy is the most effective, it can be quite difficult to work out which type of counseling or psychotherapy is the right one for you. In an age when health providers aspire to provide provide personalized […]

Find a counselor or psychotherapist

For those in Japan, I wanted to provide this link to International Mental Health Professionals Japan (IMHPJ) of which I am currently the board secretary. The IMHPJ website is a very useful resource for those who are seeking to find a counselor or psychotherapist in just the Kanto/Tokyo area or anywhere in Japan. IMHPJ is […]

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