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Yukari Makino,Ph.D., CP, SEP, C-EMDR

Clinical Psychologist in Japan

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Professional Summary

I am a Clinical Psychologist in Japan and have Ph.D in Psychology.

I have been working with people of all ages at a mental clinic and my private office, as a psychotherapist since 1996 in Japan.

For seven years, until 2018, I taught clinical and developmental psychology at the university as an associate professor in Japan.

Skills
  • Jungian Psychotherapist Training at Sanno Institute of Psychology (1993-2001)

  • Art therapy, including Hakoniwa ( Sand Play Therapy)

  • Rorschach test training: Kataguchi system, which is oriented psychodynamics (1996)

  • Mindfulness (2008-)

  • Rorshach study group: Kataguchi system, which is oriented psychodynamic (2000-2018)

  • Psychotherapist Training at Kitayama psycho-analysis Institute (2000-2007)

  • EMDR (2009-) Certified EMDR Therapist

​    Part1Training 2008, Part2 Training 2009

  • Dohsa-hou (an integrated Japanese body-mind therapy, also called “motor action psychotherapy” / 2007-)

  • Somatic Experiencing (2009-)

        Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner(SEP) (2011)

        2012-2015 Somatic Experiencing® Kobe Training Organizer

        Somatic Experiencing® Assistant

        Somatic Experiencing® 1hour Presenter

  • Mental Support after a natural disaster ( I volunteered through the Japanese Society of Certified Clinical Psychologists at the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995, and also volunteered thorough the Japan Society of Psychosomatic Medicine to provide free counseling to victims in Soma a city in Fukushima in 2011)

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  • Holography Talk Therapist (2011-)

  • ​Trauma Approach Yoga teacher (2012-)

  • Restorative Yoga teacher (2013-)

  • Stephen Gilligan Trance Camp/ Generative Trance Training (2013-)

  • ​Positive Psychology Trainer ( Daniela Blickhan Training / 2014 -)

  • Brain Spotting Phase 1 + Phase 2 (2014)

  • Trainings for Trauma Therapists with Kathy L. Kain (2015)

  • NARM (Neuro Affective Relational Model) Practitioner(2017)

  • SEE FAR  CBT(2017)

  • Dancing Mindfulness Facilitator (2019)

  • ​Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level 2(2020-2021)

  • Advanced Training in Complex Trauma and Dissociation with Dr. Janina Fisher (2020)

  • EMDR Flash Technique / Advanced Flash Technique (2020)

  • Sensorimotor Psychotherapy / Advanced Training in Complex Trauma and Dissociation with Dr. Janina Fisher

  • Bessel van der Kolk / Trauma research Foundation's Certificate Program in Traumatic Stress Studies (2020 受講中)

  • Kathy Kain / Somatic Resilience and Regulation ( As an Assistant 2022- ) 

  • EMDR Child Specialist Intensive Certificate Program by Ana Gomez (2022)

  • Body Connect Therapy by Dr. Masaki Fujimoto  (2022)

Work History
  • September 2022-  

         AMFT #134058, APCC#12036 / Supervisor: Rachel Cole (LCSW 24313)

          Rachel Cole, Licensed Clinical Social Worker & Associates Corp.

  • January 2022- 

         Counselor   

         Southern California Counseling Center 

  • March 2021- Intern

  • Apr 2017-

        Adviser of Psychotherapy Department of the Child Culture Education Japan Association Inc.

       https://c-c-e.org/advisor/

  • Apr 2015 - Mar 2018

Supervisor For Clinical Psychology Internship

Graduate Program At Senshu University - Tokyo, Japan

  • Apr 2012 - Mar 2018

Associate Professor

Horii Gakuen, Yokohama Soei University - Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan

teaching  Psychogy, Clinical psychology, Education clinical psychology, Developmental psychology, theory and method to understand infants and children,  Theory of family support, Development and clinical work for children I II, Nursery consulting support, Psychotherapy for children, Educational counseling, Graduation Research, Graduation research seminar advisor, Nursing Department: Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Educational counseling, at School of Child Education, Early Childhood Education Department, Horii Gakuen

  • May 2000 - Mar 2018

Clinical Psychologist

Watanabe Mental Clinic, Hikawa Counseling Center - Saitama, Saitama, Japan

Conducted psychological examination / individual psychotherapy at private psychiatry, neurology / psychosomatic medical clinic

  • Apr 2012 - Mar 2015

Visiting Researcher

Watanabe Mental Clinic, Hikawa Counseling Center - Saitama, Saitama, Japan

  • Sep 2010 - Mar 2012

Part-time Teacher

Mejiro University - Tokyo, Japan

Theme: Development and dissemination of trauma care and body-oriented psychotherapy

  • Jan 2009 - Mar 2012

School Counselor

Aoyama Gakuin Secondary School Counseling Room - Tokyo, Japan

Teaching “Childcare counseling” and “Child and personality”

  • Apr 2007 - Mar 2009

Part-time Teacher

Kawamura Gakuen Women's University - Abiko, Chiba, Japan

  • Sep 1996 - May 2003

Facilitator For Women's Group Therapy, Individual Counselar

Kokoro To Karada ( Mind And Body) Clinica Center - Tokyo, Japan

Teaching “educational counseling” “educational psychology” and“Learning psychology”

  • Apr 2000 - Mar 2001

Counselor, Involved The Establishment Of The Center

Counseling Center At University Of Sacred Heart - Tokyo, Japan

  • Apr 2000 - Mar 2001

School Counselor

Kojimachi Junior High School (Chiyoda-ku Public School) - Tokyo, Japan

  • Jan 1997 - Dec 1999

Counselor And Education Consultant For Children, Adolescents

Minato-ku Education Center Counseling Room - Tokyo, Japan

  • September 1996 - May 2003

Facilitator for Eating disorder group therapy, individual therapy as clinical psychologist

Kokoro (mind) and Karada (body) Clinica Center- Tokyo, Japan

Associations involved currently 
  • Association of Japanese Clinical Psychology

  • Japanese Association of Educational Psychology

  • Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine

  • Japan Psychoanalytical Association

  • Japanese Society for the Rorschach and Projective Method

  • Japan EMDR Association

  • Japanese Society for Traumatic Stress Studies

  • Japan Society of Research on Early Childhood Care and Education

  • American Psychological Association (APA)

  • EMDR International Association

  • Somatic Experiencing® Trauma Institute

  • American Society of Clinical Hypnosis

Social/Community Activities
  • 1995

        Mental Support after a natural disaster(I volunteered through the Japanese Society of Certified Clinical          

       Psychologists at the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake) 

 

  • April 2000 to March 2001

Worked as school counselor at Chiyoda-ku Kojimachi Junior High school

  • January 2009 to March 2012

Counselor and Supervisor at Aoyama Gakuin Junior High School Counseling room

  • November 2007 to May 2010

Lecturer/Supervisor at Warabi City Education Study Group’s concurrent workshop “Student Guidance Education Study Group”

  • January 2009

Lecturer for “Understanding Disabilities and Illness (Psychological Understanding)
Second Grade Course for Visiting Care Worker Training(At Tokyo Metropolitan Adachi Nitta High School)

  • May 2010

  Supervisor at Warabi-Shi Higashi Elementary school training “Special Support Education Study”

  • July 27-30th 2011

  Japan Society of Psychosomatic Medicine:

  Support activities for the Great East Japan Earthquake at Soma city Heath Center


  <Psychological care for the victims and others>

  Stayed in Soma city in Fukushima from July 27 to 30th 2011 and provided psychological support by

  30 mins session for total 8 people a day.

  • 2011

       Mental Support after a natural disaster ( I volunteered thorough the Japan Society of Psychosomatic Medicine to

  provide free counseling to survivors in Soma a city in Fukushima at the Great East Japan Earthquake.

  • April 2010 to September 2015

<Training for trauma specialized psychotherapists>
Planned, administered and assisted most update trauma care psychotherapy developed in the US for the Japanese professionals, including doctors, clinical psychologists and psychotherapists. (2-3 times a year)

  • February 2016

  <Practical research of clinical work>

  • March 2016

  Lectured on “Japanese mindfulness” and “clinical Dohsalogy” at Little Tokyo Service Center in Los Angeles,    California for its staff members.

  Provided workshop on “Mental care using body-oriented psychotherapy” for Japaneseat Monks at Shojokein    Temple in Kyoto.

  • July 2016

  Lectured at the Health Center at JWRO Nikkei Welfare Council, Los Angeles, California.

  • March 2017 to February 2018

Provided workshop “How to write findings of Rorschach test to meet clinical needs”.
This was held based on the publication of the book titled the same, in November 2016. (“How to write findings of Rorschach test to meet clinical needs” Iwasaki Gakujutsu publisher.Authers: Shihoko Kato, Satoshi Yoshimura, Editors: Shihoko Kato, Satoshi Yoshimura, Shizuka Ikeshima, Makiko Kitamura, Yukari Makino, Toko Matsuda, Kaoru Yokoyama)
This book focuses on Rorschach test as psychological assessment providing guidance on how to write findings for clinicians. It marked the 2nd best sales at the publisher and we provided the 2 nd workshop given the demands.

  • May 2010

"Rorschach method in psychotherapy process
- A Case of Borderline Personality Disorder Having Severe Behavioralization "
Japan Rorschach Association 14th Conference (Tezukayama Gakuin University)

Presentation of academic research
  • October 1998

“Survey of Eating Disorder- Examining high school students in urban areas”
The 62nd annual meeting of Japanese Psychological Association (Tokyo Geijutsu University)

  • September 2000

“Eating Disorder among High School Students- Comparison between ED group and Non ED group in the school environment background”
The 42nd Gnereral meeting of the Association for Educational Psychology (the University of Tokyo)

  • May 2010

“Development of Smoking Cessation Support Program Using EMDR”
The 5th academic conference at Japan EMDR Association(Sannomiya Training Center)

  • May 2011

"Creating a safe place with women diagnosed with schizophrenia - Combined use of EMDR and collage therapy"
The 6th Academic Conference of Japan EMDR Society (Iidabashi Rainbow Building)

  • May 2011

"Educational Research on Prevention of Violence to Children (1) - Attempts to Develop Teaching Materials for Child Care Training" Yukiko Utsumi, Koi Hosoi, Yukari Makino
The 64th Conference of Japanese Society for Education of Young Children (Tamagawa University)

  • November 2013

“Preschool and kindergarten’s Awareness of employment of male caregivers - from an interview survey -
"Sagano Niwa , Ko Hosoi, Yu Ochiai, Takayuki Hashimoto, Takeshi Mizoguchi, Yukari Makino
The 23rd Conference of Japan Early Childhood Education Society (Education Department at Chiba University)

  • July 2011

"Disability of Thinking Activities and Rorschach (1): Confabulation Thinking according to Each Disease Level"
[Sophia University: Satoshi Yoshimura, Tokyo Musashino Hospital: Shizuka Ikejima,  Sakuragaoka Memorial Hospital: Makiko Kitamura, Yoshiko Kojima, Watanabe Mental Clinic: Yukari Makino, Urawa Gakuin High School: Toko Matsuda, Seiwa Hospital: Kaoru Mitsuyama, Teikyo University: Shihoko Kato]
The 20th International Rorschach and Projection Learning Conference (National Olympics Memorial Youth Center)

  • July 2011

"Disability of Thinking Activities and Rorschach (2): Confabulation Thinking according to Each Disease Level"
[Sophia University: Satoshi Yoshimura, Tokyo Musashino Hospital: Shizuka Ikejima,  Sakuragaoka Memorial Hospital: Makiko Kitamura, Yoshiko Kojima, Watanabe Mental Clinic: Yukari Makino, Urawa Gakuin High School: Toko Matsuda, Seiwa Hospital: Kaoru Mitsuyama, Teikyo University: Shihoko Kato]
The 20th International Rorschach and Projection Learning Conference (National Olympics Memorial Youth Center)

  • October 2015

"Hypnotherapy for women who visited with complaints of severe whole-body convulsions"
Japan Clinical Hypnosis Association 17th Conference (Aichi Prefectural Industrial Labor Center Wink Aichi)

Academic Symposium etc.,
  • September 2006

Independent symposium
"Comparison of various Rorschach techniques - Dialogue of psychodynamic interpretation and comprehensive system -"
[Planning] Makiko Kitamura, Yukari Makino
[MC] Yukari Makino, Shihoko Kato
[Case offered by] Toko Matsuda
[Designated discussion] Chikako Fukatsu, Masamichi Noda, Satoshi Yoshimura

The 25th Convention of the Japanese Psychological Clinical Society (Kansai University)
Round table
"Considering violence prevention education for children - viewing and discussion of the animation ‘Mama's Bansoko (Bandage)’" Yukiko Utsumi, Ko Hosoi, Yukari Makino
The 19th Conference of Japanese Society for education of Young Children (Kawamura Gakuen Women's University)
Symposium

 

  • November 2012

“How to Develop and Train Hypnotherapist” Keisuke Niki, Yoshikazu Fukui, Yukari Makino
The 15th conference of Japanese Society of Clinical Hynosis
(Mochida Pharmaceutical Headquarters Luke Hall)

Books and Academic Papers etc.

Translated by Yukari Makino and Yoshiko Ikejima

 

Bestseller in the U.S., the leading edge of trauma research!

A guidebook for people with complex PTSD, therapists, and researchers involved with complex PTSD!

 "Complex PTSD" by Pete Walker

April 2023!

Finally, in Japan! 

 

https://amzn.asia/d/g7l4I4t

NEW

Sole author
社会病理としての摂食障害 ~若者を取り巻く痩せ志向文化~ 風間書房

“Eating Disorder as Social Pathology- A skinny Oriented Culture Surrounding Young People”
【Overview】Considering eating disorder as a sort of social pathology, analyze and examine the process of how a skinny-oriented culture leads to increase of eating disorder. And discuss how we can stop this and further issues.(In addition to a doctoral thesis submitted to the University of Sacred Heart in 2004)
It is essential for all the professionals involved in children, not limited to children’s psychotherapists, to understand the phenomena of this social pathology that can be seen among children, whose mental health is influenced heavily by society.

September 2006,  Kazama Shobo

Co-translator
思考活動の障害とロールシャッハ法

"Disability of thinking activities and Rorschach method - actuality of theory, research and differential diagnosis" 
【Overview】 Full translation of "Disordered thinking and the Rorschach" by James H Kleiger. I was in charge of the translation of chapter 10 (p 185 - 199)  To differentiate psychosis by Rorschach method, assessment of thought activity and its bias is one of important psychological factors. It is probably the first book written for this thought disorder, which is systematically summarized from the viewpoint of the Rorschach method.
Translation supervised:  Reiko Baba
Translation: Satoru Yoshimura, Seidai Sunaga, Yoshiko Kojima, Kenta Imoto, ihoko Saigo, Kaoru Mitsuyama, Yukari Makino, Shizuka Ikejima, Chiyo Chiba, Shihoko Kato, Toko Matsuda, Aoi Yoshimura, Makiko Kitamura

 

June 2010, Sogensha

Co-author
教職のための教育原理

“Educational Principles for Teaching Professionals” 
【Overview】Wrote as a university textbook. I was in charge of the topic “Education Counseling”
Edited by: Takako Uchimizaki,
Co-authors: Takeshi Inoue, Kazufumi Uuchi, Mariko Suzuki, Kiyofumi Tomono, Yukari Makino, Hitoki Yamamoto

April 2015, Yachiyo Publisher

Co-translator
身体に閉じ込められたトラウマ ソマティック・エクスペリエンシングによる最新のトラウマ・ケア

“Trauma trapped in the body :Latest Trauma Care by Somatic Experiencing”

【Overview】It is the textbook of Somatic Experiencing which is the latest body-oriented psychotherapy. Discovery of Humans mechanism by brain science and physiology are utilized in psychotherapy. This can be applied to both children and adults.
Yoshiko Ikeshima, Yoshikazu Fukui, Moyuko Nishimura, Yukari Makino


November 2016,Seiwa Shobo

Co-author
臨床の要請にこたえるために ロールシャッハテストの所見の書き方

"How to write findings of the Rorschach test to meet clinical needs"

【Overview】This book focuses on Rorschach test as psychological assessment providing guidance on how to write findings for clinicians.
Edited by Shihoko Kato, Satoru Yoshimura,
Authors: Shihoko Kato, Satoru Yoshimura, Shizuka Ikeshima, Yukari Makino, Toko Matsuda, Kaoru Mitsuyama


November 2016, Iwasaki Science Publisher

Journal
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"Hypnotic Treatment for Anxiety Disorders"
Yukari Makino
Japanese journal of psychotherapy  Vol.46 No.1


February 2020, Kongoushuppan

Co-translator
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" Rorschach Assessment of Psychotic Phenomena "

 Author : James H, Kleiger
Translation supervised:  Reiko Baba, Satoshi Yoshimura
Translation: Satoru Yoshimura, Seidai Sunaga, Yoshiko Kojima, Kenta Imoto, ihoko Saigo, Kaoru Mitsuyama, Yukari Makino, Shizuka Ikejima, Chiyo Chiba, Shihoko Kato, Toko Matsuda, Aoi Yoshimura, Makiko Kitamura

 

June 2010, Sogensha

Journal
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"Review of Books Abroad :  Barbara Jo Brothers : Well-being Writ Large : The Essential Work of Virginia Satir"
Yukari Makino
Japanese journal of psychotherapy  Vol.46 No.4

Kongoushuppan
August 2020

Mass media
Women’s magazine ”GINJER”(Togensha):How to do mental detox for young women
(My psychotherapy was introduced for mental detox topic)
November 2013
女性誌『GINJER』 2013年11月 大人女子のメンタルデトックス術
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JA Group Monthly magazine “Light of the House”:
<Beware of the Cold of the Heart>How to overcome depression in spring
March 2014
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HEALING DEVELOPMENTAL TRAUMA:

How Early Trauma Affects Self-Regulation, Self-Image, and the Capacity for Relationship

Laurence Heller Ph.D. Aline LaPierre Psy.D.
 Isao Matsumoto (Supervisor, Translation)Yukari Makino  (Translation), Tomoshiro Sasaki (Translation), Motoko Tamaki (Translation), Hirosawa Takako (Translation), Naoko Ito (Translation), Rena Anno (Translation) 

September 2021 Seiwa-shoten

Lectures, workshops and seminars
Workshop : The Essence of Body-Oriented Psychotherapy
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**Training for the essence of body-oriented psychotherapy through various somatic experiencing.

Seminar:Clinical and Developmental Psychology for a Psychotherapist and a Counselor 

*Re-traumaticized the client, or increased secondary trauma and secondary injuries to therapists.

*Simple trauma and Complex trauma

*Personality disorder

*Attachment

Photos :
July 2016  
Lectured at the Health Center at JWRO Nikkei Welfare Council, Los Angeles, California. 
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