Mental well-being support for life in Japan, in your language.
One-to-one well-being counselling sessions online for parents, professionals and students living in Japan, from qualified Indian counsellors who understand both where you live and where you come from.
Japan Schedule
Tokyo TimezoneSchedule sessions easily across your timezone and India
- ¥7,000 per 50-minute session, paid one session at a time
- Book at least one day ahead
- Sessions run during India daytime hours, shown in your local time
Life in Japan
Many Indian professionals in Japan work long hours in demanding roles, often far from family and in a language that isn't their own. Life in Tokyo or Yokohama can feel quietly isolating, and parents may be weighing Japanese, international or Indian schooling for their children. Finding someone who understands both worlds isn't always easy.
Mantraminds offers a calm, confidential space to talk it through with someone who understands, without having to explain your culture first.
Supporting Indian families in Japan
Most Indians in Japan are professionals in IT, engineering and finance. Communities have grown around Tokyo, especially Nishi-Kasai in Edogawa, as well as Yokohama and Kobe, where Indian merchant families have lived for generations.
What people in Japan often talk to us about:
- long working hours and unwritten workplace rules;
- getting by in Japanese in everyday life;
- choosing between Japanese and international schools for children;
- partners who feel isolated without work or a local network;
- the distance from family in India.
Times that can feel heavier: festivals like Diwali spent far from home, and year-end periods when Japanese workplaces are busiest.
Our local support page lists free services in your area.
Who we support
Parents
Parenting stress, raising children across two cultures, teen communication, screen time and school pressure, and guidance if your child already has a diagnosis such as ADHD or autism.
Relationships
Communication and recurring conflict, in-law and extended-family pressures, intercultural relationships, adjusting after marriage, a new baby or a move.
Professionals
Work stress and burnout, long hours, career changes after moving, work-life balance, confidence and workplace conflict, visa uncertainty.
Students (18+)
Homesickness and loneliness, academic pressure, family expectations, career worries after graduation.
All adults
Everyday stress, feeling low, grief and loss (including losing a loved one back home), life transitions, self-esteem, healthy routines.
Why Mantraminds
Your language, your context
Sessions in English, Hindi and other Indian languages (depending on counsellor availability) with counsellors who understand Indian family life and the realities of building a life in Japan.
Qualified counsellors
Every Mantraminds Well-being Counsellor holds a qualification in psychology and works as part of the Mantraminds care team in New Delhi.
Online, in your local time
Sessions by secure video during India daytime hours, shown in your local time. Each counsellor sets their own hours, so you can choose the one whose hours suit you best.
Confidential
What you share stays private. See our Privacy Policy .
A trusted mental well-being partner
If what you need is something we don't offer, we'll help you find the right local support.
How it works
Tell us a little about you
A short form, about two minutes.
We check it's the right fit
Our team reads your answers and replies by email, usually within one working day.
Book your session
If we're a good fit, we email you a secure booking link. Please book at least one day ahead. Same-day sessions are offered only in exceptional cases, if a counsellor happens to be free, so please don't count on one. We place a hold on your card or PayPal account when you book, and only charge it 2 days before your session (or straight away if you book later than that).
Grow at your pace
Regular online sessions by secure video, with practical strategies and goals that are yours.
Fees
Well-being counselling session
What our service is — and isn't
Mantraminds offers well-being counselling for adults (18+): support with life's everyday challenges. To keep you safe, we're clear about what we don't offer in Japan:
- No diagnosis or treatment of mental health conditions
- No psychiatric consultations or medication
- No sessions for under-18s (we support parents instead)
- No crisis or emergency care
If our team feels you'd benefit from clinical care, we'll tell you honestly and help you find local services.
Need urgent help?
If you're in crisis or feel unsafe, please don't wait for a session:
- Emergency: call 119
- TELL Lifeline (English): Call 0800-300-8355 (toll-free) · online chat (Sat 9am–Mon 11pm continuous; Tue–Thu 9am–11pm; Fri 9am–2am; chat daily from 4pm)
- Yorisoi Hotline (choose the foreign-language option): Call 0120-279-338 (toll-free) · Line open 24/7; foreign-language support hours vary
Important information
About our counsellors. Mantraminds is based in India, and we hope to support people wherever they live. Our Well-being Counsellors are qualified and experienced in India, and some hold Indian registrations. Overseas qualifications and registrations do not give anyone registration to practise in Japan. Our counsellors are not registered with Japan's national register of Certified Public Psychologists (公認心理師). When they work with clients in Japan, they act only as Well-being Counsellors, not as psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists or medical practitioners.
What this service doesn't provide. Our service is not a Japanese psychology, psychiatry or medical service. It doesn't provide:
- medical, psychiatric or psychological diagnosis, or diagnostic assessment;
- treatment of any mental health condition;
- prescribing, or advice on starting, stopping or changing medication;
- medical certificates, reports, letters or certificates for legal, insurance, employment, immigration or court purposes;
- emergency or crisis care.
When to seek care in Japan. If you have a diagnosed or suspected mental health condition, symptoms that are significant or getting worse, need medication or medical advice, or are already receiving mental health treatment, please seek or continue care with a doctor at a psychiatry (精神科) or psychosomatic medicine (心療内科) clinic, or your local mental health and welfare centre. If your counsellor thinks you need clinical care, they will tell you and suggest local services.
Claims and reimbursement. Sessions can't be claimed through National Health Insurance, employee health insurance (shakai hoken), private medical insurance or employer EAPs, and may not qualify for workplace or employer reimbursement. Please check with your employer before booking.
Your choice. Local services are available to you. By booking, you confirm you've chosen an India-based, non-clinical service instead, knowing the points above. Because our counsellors aren't registered locally, local regulators can't take complaints about them. Please bring any concern to us at contact@mantraminds.com.
In an emergency, call 119 or go to the emergency department of your nearest hospital. You can also contact TELL Lifeline (English): call 0800-300-8355 (toll-free) · online chat.
This doesn't affect your rights under the Act on Specified Commercial Transactions. See our legal disclosure under that Act .
Frequently asked questions
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