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Yumiko Ogawa
Associate Professor, Psychology and Program Director of MA Clinical Mental Health Counseling Program
Bio
Her passion to be a better play therapist brought her from Tokyo, Japan to Denton, TX over 20 years ago. Dr. Ogawa earned her Ph.D. from University of North Texas which houses the biggest play therapy training program in the world. She has worked with children and their families in various settings including hospital, agencies, private practices, schools and disaster response sites. Her work with undocumented and unaccompanied minors was mentioned in the United States Senate Floor. Being an immigrant in the U.S. entailed a grave identify shift for her from being an individual in a dominant group to an individual in a minoritized group. This shift was an eye opening experience and it ignited her passion for combatting injustices and inequalities, particularly in the field of counseling. Currently Dr. Ogawa is an associate professor, counselor educator, and director of the MA Clinical Mental Health Counseling program. She has been a counselor educator over 15 years and a mental health clinician for over 25 years. As her self-care strategies, she enjoys running and playing and performing Taiko (Japanese drumming).
PhD, Counselor Education and Supervision, University of North Texas
MA, Counseling, University of North Texas
BS, Psychology, Meiji Gakuin University
Research Interests / Areas of Focus
Play therapy and Sandtray therapy outcome studies, multiculturalism in play therapy, play therapy competencies, the effective use of rhythms in child therapy
Selected Publications
Ray, D., Ogawa, Y., & Chung, Y. (2023). Group play therapy supervision: Integrating the powers of play and group. In A. A. Drew., & J. A. Mullan (Eds.), Supervision can be playful: Techniques for child and play therapist supervisors. (pp. 220-229). Rowman & Littlefield.
Byrd, R. & Ogawa, Y. (2022). Chapter 8: Play Therapy Issues in Supervision. In S. Born & C. Baker (Eds.), Play Therapy Supervision: A Practical Guide to Theory and Best Practices. Routledge.
Yuno, T., & Ogawa, Y. (2023). Corona ka no kodomo he no shinri teki eikyou to play therapy teki kainyuu nituite no ichi kousatu. ( Psychological impacts of the pandemic on children and play therapy interventions). Journal of Shizuoka University Clinical Psychology
Ray, D., Ogawa, Y., & Chen, Y. (2022). Cultural humility: Making the Most of Cultural Opportunities. Routledge.
Ogawa, Y., Cheng, Y., Lin, Y., & Yee, T. (2021). Responding to the increase of hate crimes against Asians and Asian Americans. Counseling Today, 63 (12), p. 32-37.
*Yuno, T., & Ogawa, Y. (2021). Play Therapy Reflective Training: Preliminary qualitative study on Japanese play therapists’ training experience to facilitate self-awareness. Journal of Shizuoka University Clinical Psychology
Shottelkorb, A., Swan, K., & Ogawa, Y. (2020). Intensive child-centered play therapy for children on the Autism Spectrum: A pilot study. Journal of Counseling and Development, 98 (1)63-73
Sheely-More, A., Calbos, P., Lin, Y., & Ogawa, Y. (2020). Multicultural issues in CPRT. In S. Bratton., & G. Landreth. Eds. Child Parent Relationship Therapy: A 10 session Filial Therapy model. 2nd Ed. Taylor and Francis: New York, NY.
*in Japanese
Selected Presentations
Ogawa, Y., & Chen, Y. (2023). Multicultural play therapy: How to make the most of cultural opportunities. At New Jersey Association for Play therapy Day of Diversity Conference (online)
*Murakami, Y., Takaki, M., Ogawa, Y., & Rai, C. (2023). “Why are we here?” Cross-cultural experiences and pursuit of cultural identity during a pandemic. At the 29th annual conference of Japanese Society of Transcultural Psychiatry at Shiga Japan.
Byrd, R., & Ogawa, Y. (2022). Considerations in Play Therapy Supervision at the 39th Annual Association for Play Therapy International Conference & Exposition at St. Louis MO.
Ray, D., Ogawa, Y., & Chen, Y. (2022).Multicultural Play therapy: How to make the most of cultural opportunities. at the 39th Annual Association for Play Therapy International Conference & Exposition at St. Louis MO.
*Ogawa, Y. (July 2022). Child-centered play therapy. At the 11th Psychoanalysis forum. “Psychoanalytic play therapy and Child centered play therapy”
Bangash, F., Ogawa, Y., & Zeshan, M. (December 14, 2021). Cultural information to work with Afghan refugee children and their families & impact of trauma and trauma symptoms among children. At KIND (Kids in Need of Defense) national staff training.
Ogawa, Y., & Chen, Y. (2021). Cultural opportunities in play therapy: How they are expressed, how to seize and respond to them. at the 38th Annual Association for Play Therapy International Conference & Exposition at Little Rock, AR.
Ogawa, Y., & Adorno, A. (2021). Play therapy with undocumented and unaccompanied minors (scheduled to present on April 22, 2021) at the American Counseling Association Annual Conference (virtual).
*in Japanese
Awards and Honors
October 2021
Research award by Association for Play Therapy for the article on Shottelkorb, A., Swan, K., & Ogawa, Y. (2020). Intensive child-centered play therapy for children on the Autism Spectrum: A pilot study. Journal of Counseling and Development, 98 (1)63-73
December 2018
The play therapy project with Kids In Need of Defense (KIND) in Newark office is recognized on the floor of Congress in the speech by Representative Donald Payne.
https://www.facebook.com/DonaldPayneJr/videos/227855838134568/UzpfSTE0ODEzNjUzNTM6MzA2MDYxMTI5NDk5NDE0OjEwOjA6MTU1MTQyNzE5OTotNjM5Mjc1ODI0NjA3Mzc5Mzg0Mg/
December 2018
Received “Hidden Hiro” award at New Jersey City University
“The Award recognizes an employee who has shown outstanding achievement by providing tireless service to the community behind the scenes. This individual’s productivity, high caliber of work, and attitude have motivated others to excel.”
