Somatic Psychotherapist from Japan
Yukari Makino has a Doctoral degree in Psychology, is a Clinical Psychologist (ID: 07628), Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, and JEMDRA (Japan EMDR Association) Certified EMDR therapist since 1996. Yukari has been working with clients of all ages at mental health clinics and in her private practice in Tokyo, Japan.
Yukari moved to Los Angeles, California in 2018.
Yukari provides not only EMDR, SE, Sensorimotor Psychotherapy, Brainspotting, and CRM, but also Japanese origins trauma psychotherapies and Trauma therapy using Israel’s original image cards.
Yukari has a long career as a therapist, but English is her second language, so please understand that.
Please experience the somatic world instead of just the world of thinking.
Yukari Makino Education and Experience:
1996-2003 Kokoro / mind & Body Clinical Center – Group psychotherapy facilitator
1997-1999 Tokyo Minato City Educational Research and Training Center- Child, Parent, Family therapy
2000-2018 Watanabe Mental Clinic – Clinical psychologist
2009 – Makino Psychotherapy Lab. / Somatic Approach Japan
2012-2018 Yokohama Soei University – Associate Professor
2019-2022 March — Pepperdine Graduate School, Master of Arts in Clinical Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy
2021 Intern experience at Serenity Trauma Healing Center, Low Cost Community Counseling Center, and Southern California Counseling Center
2022 July — AMFT #134058, APCC#12036 / Super Visor : Rachel Cole (LCSW 24313)
Yukari Makino Training History
- Jungian Psychotherapist Training at Sanno Institute of Psychology (1993-2001)
- Art therapy, including Hakoniwa ( Sand Play Therapy)
- Rorschach test training: Kataguchi system, which is oriented psychodynamics (1996)
- Mindfulness (1996-)
- Rorshach study group: Kataguchi system, which is oriented psychodynamic (2000-2018)
- Psychotherapist Training at Kitayama psycho-analysis Institute (2000-2007)
- Mindfulness (2008-)
- EMDR (2009-) Certified EMDR Therapist
- Dohsa-hou (an integrated Japanese body-mind therapy, also called “motor action psychotherapy” / 2009-)
- Somatic Experiencing (2009-) / Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner(SEP) (2011) /. 2012-2015 Somatic Experiencing® Kobe Training Organizer, Somatic Experiencing® Assistant, Somatic Experiencing® 1hour Presenter
- Mental Support after a natural disaster ( I volunteered through the Japanese Society of Certified Clinical Psychologists at the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake in 1995, and also volunteered thorough the Japan Society of Psychosomatic Medicine to provide free counseling to victims in Soma a city in Fukushima in 2011)
- Holography Talk Therapist (2011-)
- Trauma Approach Yoga teacher (2012-)
- Restorative Yoga teacher (2013-)
- Stephen Gilligan Trance Camp/ Generative Trance Training (2013-)
- Positive Psychology Trainer ( Daniela Blickhan Training / 2014 -)
- Brain Spotting Phase 1 + Phase 2 (2014)
- Trainings for Trauma Therapists with Kathy L. Kain (2015)
- NARM (Neuro Affective Relational Model) Practitioner(2017)
- SEE FAR CBT(2017)
- Dancing Mindfulness Facilitator (2019)
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level 2(2020-2021)
- Advanced Training in Complex Trauma and Dissociation with Dr. Janina Fisher (2020）
- EMDR Flash Technique / Advanced Flash Technique (2020)
- Sensorimotor Psychotherapy / Advanced Training in Complex Trauma and Dissociation with Dr. Janina Fisher (2020-2021)
- Bessel van der Kolk / Trauma research Foundation’s Certificate Program in Traumatic Stress Studies (2020-）
- Internal Family Systems: A Step-by-Step Guide Through Clinical Applications of the IFS Model (2020)
- Comprehensive Resource Model®Basic Training, Obstacle Questions, Working with Paradox, Case Conceptualization and Treatment of DID and DDNOS, Core Self (2020-)
- Dick Schwartz’s Internal Family Systems Master Class: Experience IFS in Action with Complex Trauma and PTSD (2021)
- IFS-Informed EMDR – 6.0 CE (2021)
- 3-Day expanded IFS, Trauma and Neuroscience with Frank Anderson MD (2022)
- Kathy Kain / Somatic Resilience and Regulation ( As an Assistant 2022- )
- EMDR-Child Specialist Intensive Certificate Program by Ana Gomez (2022)