Professional Organizations

• APS Australian Psychological Society
The professional association for Psychologists in Australia.

• VAFT Inc.Victorian Association of Family Therapists
The professional association for family therapists in Victoria, Australia.

• IMHPJ, International Mental Health Professionals Japan
The professional association for international therapists in Japan. Database of therapists available. Therapy possible not only in Japanese, English, French, Spanish, German etc. from Japanese and foreign professionals.

• International Critical Incident Stress Foundation Inc.
Education and training in Emergency Mental Health Services for Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Social Workers and Licensed Professional Counselors; and Consultation in the establishment of Crisis and Disaster Response Programs for varied organizations and communities worldwide.

• MTI, Mediation Training Institute International
Resources for managing workplace conflict.

Other Mental Health Resources in Japan

• Information compiled by "Group With", a voluntary organization

• Nationwide list of psychiatric hospitals/clinics
Nationwide list of psychiatric hospitals/clinics where consultation in foreign languages (English/other). Web site under direct Management of Yachiyo Mental Clinic.

• AMDA International Medical Information Center
Introduces (in various languages by phone) information such as organizations where services are available in foreign languages and medical welfare systems. Please see web site for more details.
Telephone consultation: 03-5285-8088 (Center Tokyo) 06-4395-0555 (Center Kansai).

• Foreigners Help Center Map of Tokyo
List of local counseling counters, foreign student counters, specialist counseling counters (Law, Labor, Medicine, Everyday life, Education, etc.) Information available in Japanese, English, Chinese, Korean, Thai, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Persian, Bengali, Tagalog, Burmese

• Japanese Society of Transcultural Psychiatry
Advisory information for those living abroad who go through trans-cultural psychiatric problems. Provides information on medical organizations for mental health problems to foreigners in Japanese, medical information in English and mental health information outside Japan.

• Kagawa Mental Health Center
Mental Health Law in Japan - (Click here to download 36 page PDF file on Mental Health Law in Japan.)

• Being a Broad
The support and information network for women living in Japan