[Speaker profile]

Doctor of Medicine/Positive Psychologist/Clinical Psychologist

Raised in a single-parent household, she passed the university entrance exam after graduating from junior high school, worked mornings and evenings to save money and traveled to the U.S. alone. After graduating at the top of her class from the City University of New York, she completed her master's degree in clinical psychology at Columbia University and her doctorate in public health at the Akita University Graduate School of Medicine.
He has taught counseling and psychology at the City University of New York and the Akita International University for over 10 years. In 2013, he started a cross-cultural parenting psychology course in New York, which has been well-received and expanded to other parts of the state. He established the New York Life Balance Institute (NYLB) and is working to spread positive psychology around the world. In order to increase the number of people who create their own happiness, he offers courses that introduce evidence-based theories and skills and put them into practice.
Currently, while traveling around the world, she holds courses on Positive Psychology Coaching and Positive Psychology Consultant®️ training courses for Japanese people living around the world, both online and at mini seminars in various countries. She also focuses on online salons, and runs "Ari's Academia," which applies positive psychology to life, and "Change Agent Club (CAC)," for NYLB certified individuals. She provides the latest evidence in a form that is easy to incorporate into daily life, in order to increase the number of people who can take control of their own lives and create happy lives.
Her books "How to Increase Psychological Safety So Everyone Can Grow Happy," "How to Raise Globally Appropriate Children," "A Book to Increase Mothers' Self-Esteem," and "A Book to Increase Children's Self-Efficacy" have all been reprinted. She also oversaw the translation of VIA24's character strengths book "How to Cultivate Strengths," which is being released in Japan for the first time. Her sixth book, "The Law of Reversing Unsuccessful Relationships," published in July 2024, was so well-received that a reprint was decided immediately after its release. It has achieved the feat of selling 30,000 copies, and the total number of copies of her six books, including those already published, has reached 100,000.

 

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