I’m finding a therapist in Tokyo/Yokohama.
I’ve started having tons of flashbacks since last year, and also having some issues with my parents and relationships.
My current therapist is not bad, but I feel like it’s not helping me at all. I mean I guess not anymore. When I told her about what happened in my past, like my entire school life was mostly painful and it was very uncomfortable. But then she always asks “Oh what is the name of the school?” “you aimed for a good university huh” “is it famous?” “can you tell me the name?” “What university you applied for?” I feel like I’ve wasted 7000yen talking about school with my therapist for entire 50min. Waste of time and money.
I really want an actual advice not having conversations about how famous or good that school is.
But the real problem is I’m afraid to tell her that I want to quit. Well I’m thinking of sending her an email but I literally don’t know what to say so I don’t hurt her..and I don’t get hurt too. But I don’t know how.
Btw Sorry for my bad English.
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If you have mental health problems and your current doctor isn’t helping, you have an obligation to let them know that the treatment isn’t working.
Try searching for seishinka (精神科) near you.
If you need a direct recommendation then try http://www.megurocounseling.com/responsive-index.html
You may also want to try asking in /r/Tokyo.
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I would check how privacy is arranged in the clinic first before I would book anything. I went to a psychiatrist office here that had only a thin wall between his patient space and the waiting room, which was open at the top so everyone in the waiting room could hear the conversation and I mean every word, that was going on between me and the doctor, the receptionist was even behind a half open wall attached to that room so even less privacy from them. I was really shocked about that and never went back. Granted there might be some people who don’t have an issue with it but this kind of construction would have likely had that clinic closed in no time by the health department in my country because of severe violation of patient privacy and I think more foreigners would have an issue with this. I felt highly uncomfortable.
There is a therapist who is known as a bad character in Tokyo. I can’t say the name here without bringing Reddit into disrepute, but try a google search for something like “bad therapist Japan” and see if a certain name keeps coming up; that will be the person.