Find a Therapist in Japan

Japan has 15 therapists listed on TherapyRoute.

The list includes certified public psychologists, psychologists and CBT psychotherapists.

Start with the cities below. Each city page lists the practitioners who work there.

Japan prices insured medical care from a national fee schedule. The Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare sets it and revises it on a fixed cycle. For someone who needs continuing outpatient psychiatric care there is a second scheme. It reduces the patient's share, and prefectures and designated cities run it. It sits in disability law rather than health insurance.

Every prefecture and designated city also runs a mental health and welfare centre. Consultation there is free and confidential.

See how to think about the cost of therapy.

Japan's state qualification is the Certified Public Psychologist, 公認心理師, created by an Act in 2015. It is a registration. A person passes the national examination, is entered on the register, and receives a certificate. The Act also protects the name.

Nobody unregistered may use the title, or the characters 心理師 in what they call themselves. Other Japanese words for counselling work carry no such protection. Japan publishes no public register anyone can search. So ask whether a practitioner is a 公認心理師, and ask to see the registration certificate.