Time: 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Cost: FEW Members ¥2,000 / Guests ¥5,000 (supper and drinks included)
No advance reservation required.
Please note this is a women only event.

Venue: Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan (FCCJ), Yurakucho Denki Building, 20th Floor (http://www.fccj.or.jp/~fccjyod2/aboutus/map)

Panel of speakers: Susan J. Newton, Ph.D., Dr. Jim McRae Ph.D., Uta Sonnenberg-Watanabe

Topic: Mental Health Management & Cross-cultural Understanding

As you know, working and living in a cross-cultural environment requires many levels of change and adjustment. Representatives from the International Mental Health Professionals Japan (IMHPJ) will look at stress and its management from several different viewpoints: engaging the mind, body, spirit　and overview of stress management techniques; anecdotal remarks on one family’s experience of handling international stress; as well as an experience of a major stress reducer.
Our panel of speakers will also briefly describe the International Mental Health Professionals Japan (IMHPJ) and how it can be helpful to you.

Susan J. Newton, Ph.D.
Susan J. Newton completed her doctoral studies at the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology in Palo Alto, CA. Since arriving in Tokyo in 1999, she works as a free-lance editor and educator, active in corporate training and organizational development.
She is licensed as a Clinical Psychologist in California, and is in private practice in Tokyo. Her practice of Aikido deepens in its home context.

Jim McRae, Ph.D
Jim McRae holds a doctorate in Clinical Psychology from the Pacific Graduate School of Psychology (1988) and has practiced psychotherapy in Tokyo since 1983. He works with adults and couples; supervises US Navy Alcohol Counselors on board the USS Kitty Hawk and at Sasebo Base; and has served on the Counseling System Committee for the JET program since 1991.

Uta Sonnenberg-Watanabe
Uta Sonnenberg-Watanabe is a clinical psychologist who earned a B.A.from CCNY and her psychologist's licence (Dipl.-Psych., a six year program) from Goethe University, Frankfurt/Germany. Her clinical specialty is CBT (Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy), which together with her personal ex-pat and childrearing experiences in several countries supports much of her clinical work. She is in private practice in Tokyo and as a native German speaker serves both the international and German speaking communities.