Guide to the Student Support Center

Index

• About the Student Support Center
• Services and Activities
  • Services
  • Investigation and Research
  • Periodical Bulletin
• Common Concerns
  • Student’s Common Concerns
  • Faculty and Staff’s Common Concerns
• Staff Members
  • Director of the Student Support Center
  • Counselors
• Contact Us (Location and Office Hours)
  • Student Counseling Office
  • International Student Counseling Office
  • Career Consultation Office (Main Campus)
• Access
  • Counseling Office Yoshida (Main Campus)
  • Counseling Office Yoshida-South (Yoshida-South Campus)
  • Counseling Office North (North Campus)
  • Counseling Office Katsura (Katsura Campus)
  • Counseling Office Uji (Uji Campus)
  • International Student Counseling Office
  • Advising Lounge ‘KI-ZU-NA’
  • Career Consultation Office (Main Campus)

About the Student Support Center

The Student Support Center provides confidential counseling services for students (and faculty and staff concerned in students) on a wide range of matters relating to study or personal problem. If you are a student from foreign countries who cannot speak Japanese, please consult to International Student Counseling Office.

The Student Support Center (of Agency of Student Support and Disability Resources) was established in 2022, by reorganization of the Counseling Office (of the General Student Support Center), which was established in 2013. The Student Support Center has staff of three full-time Psychiatrists, thirteen full-time Clinical psychologists, three full-time Career Counselors, one Yogo Teacher, two part-time Clinical psychologists and one counselor for international students, and five assistant. Every year, about 800 students and staff come to the Student Support Center for counseling, and about 5,000 interviews are conducted.

Services and Activities

Services

• Individual counseling on any problems of students, including academic problems, occupational problems, psychological problems, mental and physical health.
• Consultation with faculty and staff regarding students.
• Group counseling, encounter group, and other kinds of group work.
• Conducting interviews by university physicians with the students who will take a leave of absence or re-enroll in the university.
• Conducting interviews by university physicians with the students who will study abroad.
• Crisis intervention.
• Casework.
• Holding orientations for incoming freshmen in cooperation with faculties.
• Holding seminars or symposiums for enlightment to students and staff.
• Holding seminars or symposiums for university counselors.

Investigation and Research

• Investigation of adjustment problems of drop-outs, career problems, and emotional problems relating to mental health.
• Investigation of student personnel services in connection with higher education.

Periodical Bulletin

Coming soon.

Common Concerns

Student’s Common Concerns

For example, the center provides counseling to students who:

• Are suffering in a relationship.
• Would like to think about their own character.
• Need someone to talk to about their sexual/gender identity.
• Are worried about their relationship with their family.
• Are not motivated to do research for some reason.
• Are wondering whether to change their course of study.
• Are suffering from depression or anxiety.
• Are worried about employment or job-seeking activities.

Faculty and Staff’s Common Concerns

Please contact the Consultation Center.
https://sites.google.com/mail.assdr.kyoto-u.ac.jp/consultation/

Staff Members

Director of the Student Support Center

Yasushi SUGIHARA, professor

Counselors

Yasushi SUGIHARA, professor
(Clinical psychologist at the Counseling Office Yoshida)

Junko NAKAGAWA, associate professor
(Clinical psychologist at the Counseling Office Yoshida)

Hiroyuki FURUKAWA, associate professor
(Clinical psychologist at the Counseling Office Katsura and the Counseling Office Yoshida-South)

Maya YANASE, junior associate professor
(Psychiatrist at the International Student Counseling Office)

Ryuta WADA, junior associate professor
(Clinical psychologist at the Counseling Office North and the Counseling Office Uji)

Ayuko MIZUNO, specialist staff member
(Clinical psychologist at the Counseling Office Yoshida)

Kazuhiro TSUCHIDA, specialist staff member
(Clinical psychologist at the Counseling Office Yoshida)

Midori KAWAMOTO, specialist staff member
(Clinical psychologist at the Counseling Office Uji and the Counseling Office Yoshida)

Naho MISUGI, specialist staff member
(Clinical psychologist at the Counseling Office Yoshida-South)

Nozomi ESHIRO, specialist staff member
(Clinical psychologist at the Counseling Office North)

Sueto KUMASHIRO, specialist staff member
(Clinical psychologist at the Counseling Office Yoshida)

Yuka TAHARA, specialist staff member
(Clinical psychologist at the Counseling Office Katsura)

Aoi OKITSU, specialist staff member
(Clinical psychologist at the International Student Counseling Office)

Hsinhui HUANG, specialist staff member
(Clinical psychologist at the International Student Counseling Office)

Mayumi NISHIOKA, specialist staff member
(Clinical psychologist at the International Student Counseling Office)

Asako, IMAI, support staff
(Counselor at the Advising Lounge ‘KI-ZU-NA’)

Hidemi AIDA, specially contracted staff member
(Career counselor at the Career Consultation Office)

Tomoko Higashiguchi, specially contracted staff member
(Career counselor at the Career Consultation Office)

Miho MATSUYAMA, assistant administrative staff
(Assistant career counselor at the Counseling Office Uji and the Counseling Office Katsura)

Atsuko ITO, specially contracted staff member
(Yogo Teacher at the Counseling Office Uji)

Contact Us (Location and Office Hours)

Student Counseling Office

The Student Counseling Office is the common name for five counseling offices (Counseling Office Yoshida, Counseling Office Yoshida-South, Counseling Office North, Counseling Office Katsura, Counseling Office Uji).

International Student Counseling Office

International Student Counseling Office, along with Advising Lounge ‘KI-ZU-NA’, offers counseling/advising services to international students and researchers who have concerns about their academic studies or life in Japan.

Career Consultation Office (Main Campus)

At the Career Consultation Office, dedicated career consultants provide advice on job-seeking, career development, etc.

Access

Counseling Office Yoshida (Main Campus)

Counseling Office Yoshida, Student Support Center
Agency of Student Support and Disability Resources
Kyoto University

Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501
(2nd floor of the Academic Affairs Department Building (Former Main Building of the Petrochemistry Course) on Yoshida Main Campus)

 

Counseling Office Yoshida-South (Yoshida-South Campus)

Counseling Office Yoshida-South, Student Support Center
Agency of Student Support and Disability Resources
Kyoto University

Yoshida-Nihonmatsu-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501
(1st floor of Rakuyu Kaikan on Yoshida-South Campus)

 

Counseling Office North (North Campus)

Counseling Office North, Student Support Center
Agency of Student Support and Disability Resources
Kyoto University

Kitashirakawa-Oiwake-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8502
(1st floor of Former Head Office of the Forest Research Station on North Campus)

 

Counseling Office Katsura (Katsura Campus)

Counseling Office Katsura, Student Support Center
Agency of Student Support and Disability Resources
Kyoto University

Kyoto daigaku-katsura, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8530
(3rd floor of Funai Center in the B Cluster on Katsura Campus)

 

Counseling Office Uji (Uji Campus)

Counseling Office Uji, Student Support Center
Agency of Student Support and Disability Resources
Kyoto University

Gokasho, Uji-city, Kyoto 611-0011
(2nd floor of Kyoto University Co-Op Building on Uji Campus)

 

International Student Counseling Office

International Student Counseling Office, Student Support Center
Agency of Student Support and Disability Resources
Kyoto University

Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501
(2nd floor of the Academic Affairs Department Building (Former West Building of the Petrochemistry Course) on Yoshida Campus)

※Please enter through the east entrance of the No.16 building. Go up the front stairs and go to the left to find the reception at room No.9.

How to access to the reception of the Int’l Student Counseling Office (PDF, 546KB)ダウンロード

 

Advising Lounge ‘KI-ZU-NA’

Advising Lounge ‘KI-ZU-NA’, Student Support Center
Agency of Student Support and Disability Resources
Kyoto University

Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501
(Room 24, diagonally located to the right of the restroom on the 1st floor of the Academic Affairs Department Building No.16)

 

Career Consultation Office (Main Campus)

Career Consultation Office, Student Support Center
Agency of Student Support and Disability Resources
Kyoto University

Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501
(1st floor of the Academic Affairs Department Building (Former Main Building of the Petrochemistry Course) on Yoshida Main Campus)