Ethan SAHKER

Ethan Sahker is an assistant professor in the Population Health & Policy Research Unit, Medical Education Center, Graduate School of Medicine at Kyoto University. He earned his PhD in counseling psychology from the University of Iowa, USA, and received clinical training at the University of California San Diego/Veterans Affairs Hospital, specializing in trauma-focused therapy. He completed a JSPS postdoctoral fellowship at Kyoto University in the School of Public Health. His research focuses on the clinical epidemiology of addiction treatment identifying health disparities, and social capital supports, and factors supporting recovery. He is currently focused on improving addiction treatment access by advancing web-based intervention technologies in primary care settings and is interested in student mentorship and mental health.

Nicolas TAJAN

Dr. Tajan is a French psychologist and psychoanalyst, program-specific associate professor at Kyoto University, and co-organizer of the Kyoto University International Mental Health Seminar. He offers counseling to foreign students enrolled at the Faculty of Integrated Human Studies and the Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies. His research focuses on psychopathology and psychoanalysis. He is the author of an open access book entitled “Mental Health and Social Withdrawal in Contemporary Japan: Beyond the Hikikomori Spectrum” and the first recipient of the “Geneviève Haag” prize (2022) of the International Coordination between Psychotherapists Psychoanalysts and Associate Members caring for people with Autism (CIPPA)