カリフォルニア州公認カウンセラーのブログ
長年に渡る経験に基づく意見や
メンタルヘルスについて日々考えることを綴ります。
Depression in Children–Treatment
2025.11.12
Hello, my name is Tatsuya Arakawa, Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. In my previous blog post, I explained what childhood depression is. This time, I would like to talk about how therapy can help. Building Trust with the Child Whether the client is a child or an adult, therapy cannot succeed without a foundation of […]
Why Therapy Doesn’t Work – Due to a Client
2025.03.14
Hello, I’m Tatsuya Arakawa, a licensed mental health therapist (LMFT) specializing in depression, anxiety disorders for adults, and Adult Children of Toxic Parents, and adolescents. In a previous blog, I discussed reasons why therapy may not be working for you because of the therapist. This time, I’d like to talk more about cases where the […]
How Therapy Can Help You Reduce Anxiety Suffering
2025.02.21
One of the most common questions I receive is about anxiety and how to manage it. In this blog, I’d like to discuss how therapy can help reduce anxiety suffering. 1. Understanding the Causes of Anxiety As human beings, we have a natural desire to understand why things happen the way they do. If we […]
Why Therapy is NOT working–because of a therapist
2024.10.25
Hello, this is Tatsuya Arakawa, a licensed mental health therapist (LMFT). On this blog, I would like to discuss why therapy is NOT working because of a therapist. Perhaps, you have been seeing a therapist with satisfying outcome or maybe you are not really happy with your current therapist. Either way, knowing how therapy should […]
The difference between therapist listening and friends/significant others listening
2024.06.12
Hello, thank you so much for reading this blog. Here, I would love to present correct information as there is so much misinformation out there especially on the internet. In this blog, I would like to clarify the difference between therapist listening to clients and friends/significant others listening as people get confused often. As discussed […]
2024.05.10
Hello, Thank you so much for visiting my blog. Here, my intention and hope are that you will educate yourself with the right information as there is so much information online that you should not trust, quite frankly. As the first blog, I would like to talk about what exactly is therapy. Often times when […]