“We are a community of mental health professionals focused on development, connected to better serve the people of Japan, and the world.
Members of JTA adhere to the APA Code of Ethics.” (See Below)
Our mission is to promote professional mental health services within Japan and the world. Toward that aim, Japan Therapy Association (JTA) is a society of professionals who provide compassionate, evidence-based psychotherapy services to the public. We endeavor to support the ongoing professional development of therapists at all stages of their careers, as well as promote adherence to the American Psychological Association (APA) ethical standards.
Founder
License New York clinical psychologist, and President of Herald Square PLLC New York, GK in Tokyo, and Japan Therapy Association (JTA).
Licensed in 2010, Dr. Furr was educated at the University of California Santa Cruz, NYU, and Long Island University Brooklyn, and has extensive inpatient, residential, and outpatient hospitals and now private practice in 2 countries. He was trained by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs for Prolonged Exposure for PTSD, Interpersonal Therapy, neuropsychological and psychological assessments. Dr. Furr extensive training in CBT, Mindfulness, psychodynamic, EMDR and integrates these with many other therapies including EMDR. His target clients are adults, couples, and group therapy to treat trauma, anxiety depression, addiction, and health psychology.
The son of an Experimental and School Psychologist, Dr. Furr grew up in an environment that encouraged curiosity about and the application of knowledge and the humanities to help individuals attain their goals in life. Dr. Furr has worked in a diverse set of clinical settings from virtually all parts of society and has taught classes in Mindfulness, Relationships and Social Psychology.
Dr. Furr has helped men and women of all sexual orientations with eating disorders, anxiety disorders, substance abuse, psychotic disorders, marital difficulties and sexual trauma. Dr. Furr has also helped combat veterans overcome Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and remains committed to helping veterans recover and adjust to life after military service.
Dr. Furr graduated with a B.A. in Psychology from the University of California at Santa Cruz, where he participated in conducting research in Social Psychology and studied under the noted Social Psychologist Elliot Aronson. There, Dr. Furr learned the factors of attraction in relationships, the danger of distorted self-justifying when one does not live according to one’s values, the powerful influence of environment on individuals behavior, and the importance of awareness of one’s bias in social situations.
Later, while studying at New York University’s Master’s of Arts program, Dr. Furr was actively involved in research on psychotherapy. As a doctoral student, Dr. Furr worked at Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan in the extensive Brief Psychotherapy Project. He later received his doctorate degree in Clinical Psychology at Long Island University. Dr. Furr conducted his own original research on Anxiety Disorders, Mindfulness, and the repair process between patient and client in psychotherapy. Dr. Furr also taught Social Psychology as a teaching fellow at Long Island University in Brooklyn.
Dr. Furr has compassionately worked with individuals of virtually every background and in in-patient psychiatric units, health and HIV clinics, private educational institutions, city hospitals and college counseling clinics. Dr. Furr worked for Prep for Prep, a not-for-profit organization that identifies minority students from New York City public schools provides them with training and scholarships at the nations best prep schools. The scope of Dr. Furr’s assessment experience has been with thousands of individuals from ages 3 to 106 years old, performing psychological, neuropsychological and personality assessments. Dr. Furr has conducted individual, couples and group therapy at Beth Israel Medical Center, Coler-Goldwater Hospital on Roosevelt Island and The Department of Veterans Affairs.
Completing his Doctoral internship at the Brooklyn Veterans Hospital, Dr. Furr became a staff psychologist for the federal government working at veteran’s hospitals in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. There Dr. Furr helped treated hundreds of veterans with emotional difficulties, addiction, PTSD, and substance abuse; Dr.Furr has helped scores of homeless veterans find housing. In addition, Dr. Furr has helped obtain deserved benefits and pensions for hundreds of soldiers and veterans from the current conflicts to those who served at the Battle of Iwo Jima in World War II.
Dr. Furr has also supervised doctoral students and participated on the training committee for the Internship program for the Federal government. Currently, Dr. Furr offers supervision at the doctoral and post-doctoral level as director of clinical services at Herald Square Psychology where the sum of his experience is delivered in a compassionate, individualized treatment program for adult clients.
Co-Founder
Andrew Parkinson (MCouns) is a Past President of the International Mental Health Professionals Japan (IMHPJ). He is a qualified counsellor with 15+ years experience in both the education sector, and as director of his private practice, Wellbeing Central.
Andrew. integrates strengths-based and somatic approaches to therapy including Solution Focused Brief Therapy (SFBT), and Somatic Experiencing (SE). He has additional training in modalities including Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Eye Movement Desentization and Reprocessing (EMDR), Ego-State therapy, Coherence Therapy (CT), Neurolinguistic Programming (NLP), and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).
Please note: Services provided by JTA members are offered in Japan under a wellness and consultation model. While JTA Members may hold a license as a psychologist in any jurisdiction in the USA, these services are not performed under U.S. or Japanese licensure and are not legally clinical in nature or claim to be bound by APA standards. APA ethical principles may inform service philosophy, but are not binding regulatory standards in this context.
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