Taeko Yamada (MSW, CPP)

Taeko Yamada has over 15 years of experience working as a social worker in Australia and Japan. Her fields of experience include suicide prevention/intervention, sexual health especially HIV/AIDS, family violence, human trafficking, mental health and transgender healthcare. Taeko has also worked with, and advocated for specific target groups such as youth, women of color, people living with HIV/AIDS, and the LGBTQIA+ community.

Taeko obtained her Master of Social Work from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia in 2007, and also completed a Graduate Diploma in Family Therapy in 2012. Taeko also became certified in hypnotherapy in 2021 both as a hypnotherapist and a hypnotherapy trainer. In 2022, she was also registered as a Certified Public Psychologist in Japan.

Her clinical interests include adolescent mental health, trauma, anxiety and depression, family/intimate partner violence, grief and loss, chronic pain and stress management, cultural adjustment, and sexual and gender identities and sexual health issues.

Her approach is integrative and holistic, and she hopes that every client can feel empowered, resilient, more loving towards themselves after therapy. Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR), Hypnotherapy are Taeko’s main therapeutic modalities.

Taeko has been a member of the Australian Association of Social Workers, Japanese Society of Gender Incongruence, Japan Board of Clinical Hypnotherapists, National Guild of Hypnosis, American Board of Hypnotherapy, and a past member of the World Professional Association of Transgender Health.

資格：ラ・トローブ大学先住民族学学士、モナッシュ大学ソーシャルワーク科修士、家族療法グラデュエート・ ディプロマ（豪州）、公認心理師、NGH米国催眠士協会認定ヒプノセラピスト、ABH米国催眠療法協会認定トレーナー

所属学会等（2025年1月現在）：Australian Association of Social Workers、日本臨床ヒプノセラピスト協会、日本GI（性別不合）学会