Yasuhiro Kotera
University of Derby, UK
Biography
Dr Kotera have been Academic Lead for our online Counselling and Psychotherapy courses since 2014 and have been teaching and researching into mental health, motivation, compassion and cross-cultural psychology. He have studied at Kwansei Gakuin University in Japan and Emory University in America during his bachelor’s degree, focusing on communication: how externally and internally it creates our feelings. After earning his bachelor’s degree, he worked at one of the most competitive advertisement companies in Japan, Recruit, then co-founded a consultancy company teaching occupational psychological concepts and skills. While teaching, He became more interested in how long-lasting changes can be created, so decided to study counselling psychology in a master’s degree at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco, focusing on Gestalt therapy. While and after pursuing his degree, he worked at a Gestalt-based counselling centre, an adult crisis psychiatric unit, and a geriatric centre as a counsellor. He is an Accredited Counsellor/Psychotherapist at the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, and have more than 20 academic peer-reviewed articles about mental health.