ABOUT
Expert
CEO, Resilie Laboratory
Kaoru Ichikawa, Ph.D.
President, EAPA Japan
Dr. Kaoru Ichikawa has a Ph.D. in Preventative Medicine and introduced the concept of EAP to Japan and other Asia Pacific countries in the 1990s. She has been promoting employee wellbeing, EAP and resiliency as a core human resource and management strategy.
- License
- Certified Employee Assistance Professionals – International (CEAP-I)
Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) – State of California
Licensed Psychologist (Japan)
Certified Clinical Psychologist (Japan) - Books
- Resilience nurtured in Workplace(in Japanese)
EAP design, implementation and management(In Japanese, In Korean)
Revised 100 workplace mental health recipe(in Japanese)
Utilizing EAP to enhance your corporation’s Mental Health(in Japanese)
Work Engagement Q&A(in Japanese) - Academic Appointments
- Employee Assistance Certification Commissioner 2016-2019.
Employee Assistance Professionals Associations – Board member2012-2016.
Asia Pacific Employee Assistance Roundtable, President 2013-2017.
Board member. Japan Association of Job Stress Research
Councilor. Japan Association of Stress Science
Delegate. Japan Society for Occupational Mental Health
Adjunct lecturer. University of Occupational and Environmental Health. Kyorin University. Kyotobunkyo University.
Resilience Expert
Emerald Jane Turner
Emerald Jane Turner is the inventor of the Resilience Assessment/Matrix. She resides in the U.K. and provides resilience and mindfulness coaching and training to global corporations, as well as government organizations and community organizations.
Board member, Resilie Laboratory
Tooru Tsunoda, MD, Ph.D.
MD from Keio University, School of Medicine. Ph.d. in Medicine.
Professor in Emeritus, Kyorin University
Professor, Ryotokuji University
Consultant, Tokyo Occupational Health Support Center
Vice Chair Person, Japan Society for Occupational Mental Health
Vice Chair Person, Japan Association of Stress Science
Managing Director, Industrial Safety Association for Forestry and wood manufacturing Industry
Chair person, Japan EAP Association
Vice Chair person, International Employee Assistance Professionals Association – Japan Branch
Board member, Resilie Laboratory
Kenji Shigemori, MD
Psychiatrist.
Designated Psychiatrist as specified in Japan’s Mental Health and Welfare Law
Certified Occupational Health Physician, Japan Medical Association
Medical Director, Senzoku Mental Clinic.
After working for Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, National Kurihama Medical Center, he became occupational mental health physician for corporations such as, Toshiba and TV Tokyo.
Occupational Mental Health Expert.
Occupational Mental Health Advisor
Eiichi Seki, MD, MPH.
Psychiatrist.
Designated Psychiatrist as specified in Japan’s Mental Health and Welfare Law
Certified Expert Psychiatrist, Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology
Certified Occupational Health Physician, Japan Medical Association.
Education:
Medical Doctor, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo Japan.
Master of Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health, USA
Work Experience includes; Medical Officer, Programme for Resource Mobilization, World Health Organization (WHO), Geneva, Switzerland, and Deputy Director, International Affairs Division, Ministry of Health and Welfare, Japan.
Management and Business Administration Advisor
Satoshi Akutsu
Professor, Hitotsubashi University Business School
School of International Corporate Strategy
Education:
BA and MA from Hitotsubashi University
MS and PhD from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
He has served as research fellow at the Institute of Management, Innovation, and Organization at the Haas School, and has worked closely with the Department of Psychology of UC Berkeley.
He provides advice and training on general management, marketing, and branding to various companies, central/local governments, and NPOs. He advocates “health management branding” as one of the management tools of corporate branding for a company’s sustainable growth.
Chief Researcher
Yuri Miyazawa
MA in Human Behavior
Licensed Psychologist. Certified Clinical Psychologist.
Specialty; Human Behavior.
Work experience: After working at Japan Airlines, she became a consultant for child education at a large child education institute. She has provided human development advisement to the child – middle age adult – elderly population.
She provide various psychological assessment to children, as well as adults.
Psychology Expert
Tomoko Matsui
Ph.D.(Public Health), Licensed Psycholgist.
Experience in providing guidance and counselling from school age children to adults in the area of well-being and life stage issues.
Current and past positions include;
Professor, Kyorin University School of Public Health.
Board member, Japan Association of Stress Sciences.
Board member, Japan Association of Occupational Mental Health.
Board member. Japan Association of Industrial Stress.
Kyoko Umeda
MA in Counselling Psychology , North Texas University.
Licensed Psychologist, Certified Clinical Psychologist, CEAP-I (Certified Employee Assistance Professional- International)
15 years of experience in providing EAP counselling in corporations.
Expertise includes; Biofeedback, Critical Incident Stress Care and Animal Assisted Therapy.
Mindfulness Expert
Mi Yen Low
MA in Clinical Psychology
Trained Teacher of Mindful Self-Compassion (MSC) from Center for MSC, USA and Apprentice Teacher of Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) from Oxford Mindfulness Centre, UK.
Based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Mi Yen conducts workshops in Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Sri Lanka apart from Malaysia.
Board member, Asia Pacific Employee Assistance Roundtable (APEAR).
Mi Yen has 25+ years of experiences in clinical psychology, crisis management and EAP/Occupational mental health.
Nursing Expert
Yuri Kitano
BS in Nursing, Kokusaiiryofukushi University
Licensed Nurse (RN) and Licensed Public Health Nurse.
Experience in wellness care for infant to elderly in the community, end of life/hospice care, workplace stress check, and mental health disability management for workers.
Elder Care/ Social Work Expert
Yumi Tokita
Kenkokachisozokigyo Inc. Licensed Social Worker
Experience in elder care at skilled nursing facility, care management assessment in the community elder care, board member for local government’s social services commission.
Our Partners (Psychology)
Eriko Kobayashi
TIP(Tokyo International Psychotherapy)Co-director
Eriko Kobayashi (Ph.D)
TIP(Tokyo International Psychotherapy), Rikkyo University counselor
Licensed Psychologist in California
Certified Clinical Psychologist in Japan
MS in Clinical Social Work (Columbia University)
Ph.D. In Counseling Psyhchology (Pennsylvania State University)
English Japanese bilingual psychologist specialized in cognitive behavioral therapy and cross-cultural psychology
TIP(Tokyo International Psychotherapy)
Our partners (Occupational Health)
David Levine (Global Care Experts LLC)
Crisis Care for global corporations for incidents that happen any place in the world by utilizing a global network of crisis care specialists. Expert in Psychological First Aid and Critical Incident Stress care after natural disasters, accidents and sudden death at work,
Global Care Experts LLC
- Quadrant Health Strategies Inc.
- Health Design Inc.
- Sakura Jimusho Inc.
- MPS center