About

Mütsumi Shoji is experienced at helping those who want to live a more authentic life. Moving from Japan at the age of twenty-two, and receiving most of her advanced degrees in the U.S, she has lived and worked in both worlds. This cultural experience helps her understand those who struggle to navigate the discrepancies between their inner and outer lives. 

Mütsumi has been dual-licensed in the state of New Mexico since 2007, as a Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor and as a Licensed Professional Art Therapist. In that time, she has worked professionally with a wide variety of people, including Asian familes struggling with acculturation issues, first-generation Dreamers, students at a prestigious college, Native American tribe members, children with behavioral difficulties, and even incarcerated youth. During the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011, Mütsumi travelled to Japan and worked directly with displaced and traumatized families.

Since 2000, Mütsumi has studied Developmental Psychology with an emphasis on the tradition of Analytical Psychology. She took this farther, first by attending seminars at the Jungian Institute of Zürich, Switzerland, in 2018, and then entering training at the Jungian Institute of Santa Fe, in 2019, where she studied for five years. She is presently attending lectures at the Kyoto University school of Psychology and working with members of International Mental Health Professionals Japan (IMHPJ).