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Create positive patterns in your life. Sessions in English and Japanese, in New York City anI would love to hear your story and how you're feeling today. Our sessions begin there, listening together without criticism or judgment. Over time, the therapy room becomes a safe space to rehearse your real life, and you begin to find viable solutions for the day-to-day issues you face outside of it.

I work with people who juggle multiple cultures, your original one and the one you are evolving into.

You might be navigating:

  • A relationship across different cultural or ethnic backgrounds

  • Expectations and values passed down by first-generation Asian parents

  • Your identity as a first-, 1.5-, second-, or third-generation immigrant

  • Growing up in international schools or between cultures

  • Parenting between the culture you grew up in and the culture in which you are raising your children

  • The unique experience of being a Third Culture Kid (TCK)

When we meet, you will experience my gentle yet direct approach. We listen together. We become curious together. We take time to get to know the different parts of you: the strong parts, the protective parts, and the parts that feel vulnerable or unseen. With care and respect, we make space for all of them, so that you can move forward with greater clarity and self-trust.

If any of this feels familiar, I would love to talk.

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Culturally Sensitive Psychotherapy

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I am dedicated to working with clients whose personality and life experience were shaped by more than one culture. Working closely with a client, I seek to empower the multicultural person through all chapters of life: to build confidence, to be connected in important relationships and valued in the community.

— Mizuho 'Miho' Kanazawa

How I can Help

My Promise

A safe space — you will not be judged


Practical and creative alternatives


A life enriched by balance (self-led life)


You will be treated with compassion and empowerment


My Services

Psychotherapy


Couples work

Dating / developing relationships / premarital / married — any status of the couple is welcomed


Skill building for young adults

Dating, relationships, work & expression — navigating communication and giving and receiving care