Freedom Counseling service is committed to providing the most comprehensive and appropriate care to each individual. Our programs and services are designed to address problems in a personalized manner under conditions that assure client safety, comfort and confidentiality.
Bilingual Counseling
Both individual counseling and family therapy are available both in English and in Japanese. The counseling is open to all English-speaking and Japanese-speaking persons. The counselor is proficient in both languages and is native level so there will be no language barrier between the individual.
Reverse Culture Shock Therapy
This service is available for Japanese persons who are facing reverse culture shock from studying abroad. Studying or living in a foreign country for a period of time is a special event that not everyone gets to experience. Some make a drastic decision or face an epiphany in that time period. Returning to Japan provokes both positive and negative feelings, which is very normal. Reverse culture shock therapy allows the individual to adjust back to life in Japan with an integration of the experience gained through the study abroad/living in foreign countries.
Counseling for Maladjustment to Japanese Culture
Freedom Counseling also offers services for non-native people living in Japan who are having difficulties with adjusting to Japanese culture. Japan, although they welcome foreign people, country in itself is not a foreigner-friendly country. The road signs are mostly written in Japanese; Japanese is known as one of the hardest languages to learn; Japanese people's English is usually hard to understand, etc. We hope to assist individuals who are facing stress/struggle during the stay here in Japan. We are also able to connet the individuals to a psychiatrist if the individual is on medication and is in need for prescription. However, we suggest individual counseling through Freedom Counseling before connecting the person to medication.
Family Conflicts and Family Therapy
We also offer counseling for people struggling with family conflicts, such as parent-child relationship; sibling conflict; in-laws conflict, etc. We suggest individual counseling for the persons, but we also offer family therapy where the counselor goes to the individual's home and perform effective therapy with the family members.
Other specialities include: neurosis, depression, obsessive-complusive thought patterns.