Approach

Integrated Counseling Approach | Yokohama Mental Health

Integrated Counseling Approach

The collaborative journey begins with exploring your core concerns, understanding their origins, and charting a path toward positive growth and change. By examining various facets of your life, tailored strategies are adopted to address challenges, facilitating personal development and progress.

Building Confidence and Achieving Well-being

Confidence in this counseling approach is essential. Sessions focus on meaningful improvements in your well-being. Once we begin, you'll gain access to a secure, password-protected personal mental health log. This resource enables easy access to materials, prompts, tasks, and other vital elements to actively engage with your progress and recovery.

Empowering Sustainable Well-being

The counseling process equips you with practical skills to regain emotional balance, navigate life's challenges, and maintain your well-being independently. The aim is empowerment—supporting you to thrive on your own terms, without prolonged counseling support.

Key Features of the Counseling Approach

  • Integrated Counseling: A dynamic and personalized blend of therapeutic methods, incorporating activities, exercises, and reflections tailored specifically to your needs.
  • Holistic Care Coordination: Comprehensive guidance potentially involving counseling alongside medical or psycho-pharmaceutical support as needed, bridging a gap in Japan's mental health services.
  • Palliative Care Counseling: Specialized counseling providing compassionate emotional support and guidance for individuals nearing the end of life and their families during critical life transitions.

Areas of Specialization

Counseling support covers a wide range of concerns for adolescents, adults, and families, including:

  • Anger Management
  • Anxiety
  • Crisis Intervention
  • Depression
  • LGBTQIA+ Affirming Counseling
  • Palliative and End-of-Life Care
  • Grief and Loss
  • Stress Management
  • Self-Harm and Suicide Prevention
  • Technology Balance
  • Wellness Promotion