Hatsuko Arima, Clinical Social Worker in Los Angeles, 90025

Hatsuko Arima, LCSW

Profession(s):
Clinical Social Work, Social Work, Social Work
License Status:
I'm a licensed professional.
Licensing Info:
certified psychoanalitically oriented psychotherapist and certif
Primary License:
Licensed Clinical Social Worker - LCSW16818

My Approach to Helping

I am bilingual in Japanese and English. I have lived in Los Angeles for over 40 years. I would like to serve the Japanese community and other Asian immigrants using my past professional as well as personal experience dealing with serious health problems, and other life transition problems.
I have experienced to work with children and adults with acute and chronic illness, child abuse assessment and report, parent/child conflict, especially in immigrant families. Other interests include interracial marriage and biculutural children's issues.
I am a certified grief counselor and treat loss of health, non-compliance with medical treatment and organ transplant issues, loss of the loved ones through death or divorce. I believe that if the clients process the grief through psychotherapy, they can best process their loss and find a meaning with what they are going through. Japanese people have a stigma to seek counseling but I encourage them to meet an experienced counselor, especially when one lives in a foreign country without family support.

More Info About My Practice

I have a B.A. degree in psychology from Waseda University in Japan and a Master of Social Work degree from USC. I have worked as a medical social worker at Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center for 16 years and am currently in private practice.

Services I Provide

Individual Therapy & Counseling
Marriage, Couples, or Relationship Counseling
Family Therapy
Group Therapy
Coaching

Ages I Work With

Children
Teens
Adults
Elders

Languages I Speak

English
Japanese

Groups I Work With

Parenting issues surrounding with serious illness, and developmental delay medical issues such as newly diagnosed health problems , chronic and catastrophic illness,and noncompliance with medical treatment, organ transplant, life transition issues such as the loss of a loved one, recovery to health, and adjustment to empty nest, cultural issues, interracial marriage, etc.