Dr. Brian Ogawa is Professor and Department Chair of Human Services at Washburn University, where he has taught since 2001. The department has academic programs in addiction counseling, mental health, gerontology, youth services, developmental disabilities, victim/survivor services, non-profit management, and Morita Therapy. Dr. Ogawa’s areas of expertise include Eastern therapies, post trauma, cultural competence, and hate and bias crimes. He is internationally recognized as a primary educator and practitioner of Morita Therapy in the United States, having formally studied Morita Therapy for more than 45 years. Dr. Ogawa’s father was born and raised in the Meiji-era in the same hometown as Dr. Shoma Morita: Kochi, Shikoku. Dr. Ogawa was born in Manzanar and has lived most of his life in California and Hawaii. Dr. Ogawa’s past appointments include Director of the Crime Victims’ Institute, Office of the Texas Attorney General; Director of the National Academy for Victim Studies, Department of Criminal Justice, University of North Texas; director of a prosecutor-based victim/witness assistance division; university-based mental health researcher; and counselor in private practice focused on Morita Therapy. His education includes a Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) in counseling from San Francisco Theological Seminary (doctoral dissertation on the adaptation of Morita Therapy to the West); Master of Divinity (M.Div.) in theology from Fuller Theological Seminary; and Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in social sciences from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Dr. Ogawa has been a consultant on many national research and curriculum projects on death, dying and bereavement; hate crimes; multiculturalism; and crime victim rights and services. He has served on numerous national boards and committees, including the National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women for the U.S. Department of Justice and Department of Health and Human Services; Center for Substance Abuse Prevention...
Dr. Kei Nakamura, M.D., is a professor and the director at the Department of Psychiatry in the Jikei University Daisan Hospital and the vice director at this hospital. Dr. Nakamura is also the director of the Jikei University Center for Morita Therapy which has an inpatient Morita therapy unit. He graduated from the Jikei University School of Medicine in Tokyo with a doctoral degree in medicine. He is well known in Japan as a psychiatrist specialized in Morita therapy, psychopathology, and cross-cultural studies of anxiety disorders (especially social phobia) and depression treatment. Currently, Dr. Nakamura is the chair of the Japanese Society for Morita Therapy (JSMT) and sits on the Executive Board of Directors for the Japanese Society of Trans-cultural Psychiatry and the Japanese Federation for Psychotherapies. He is also a councillor for the following organizations: the Japanese Society of Psychopathology and Psychotherapy, the Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine, the Japanese Society of Depression, the Japanese Society of Anxiety Disorders, and the Japanese Society of Naikan Therapy. In addition, he is a member of the International Committee for Morita Therapy (ICMT), the Transcultural Psychiatry Section of the World Psychiatric Association, and the World Association of Cultural Psychiatry. Some of his recent articles published in English are: Morita therapy in Japan: Today and the future [J. of Morita Therapy 2000; 11(1):66-70] The history of psychotherapy in Japan [International Medical Journal 2006; 13 (Suppl.1):13-18] The neurotic versus delusional subtype of taijin-kyofu-sho: Their DSM diagnoses [Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 2002; 56:...
Dr. Ishu Ishiyama is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of British Columbia, Canada. He is also an Associate Member of the Department of Psychiatry at U.B.C. As a visiting professor, he recently taught multicultural counselling in the clinical psychology program at the University of Tokyo during his sabbatical (2009-2010). He was a former David Lam Chair in Multicultural Education at U.B.C. He was born and educated in Japan, and earned his Master’s degree from McGill University and a Ph.D. from University of Victoria, both in counselling psychology. He is a certified psychotherapist registered with the Japanese Society for Morita Therapy in Japan. He teaches counselling graduate courses and supervises master’s and doctoral students in their research and clinical work at U.B.C. He is known as the developer of “The Anti-discrimination Response Training (A.R.T.) Program: An Active Witnessing Approach,” which has been used in schools and community education programs in Canada for prejudice reduction and social justice training. He is also a co-developer of the Sociocultural Competency Training (SCT) Program, widely used in career and educational settings in Canada and overseas. He has authored facilitator manuals for the above programs. Dr. Ishiyama is also internationally known for his teaching, research, and training clinicians in a Japanese psychotherapy system (Morita therapy), and serves as the Chair of the International Committee for Morita Therapy (ICMT) and sits on the Executive Board of Directors for the Japanese Society for Morita Therapy. He is the recipient of the Shoma Morita Award by the Society in 2007. He has been engaged in research and clinical training in such areas...
