MIKA WATABIKI JONES

Practical Clinical Supervisor with more than 3 years of experience and background in trauma informed care. Focused on developing teams' clinical knowledge, decision-making skills and performance standards. Eager to bring talent and expertise to growing department.

• Devised effective policies and protocols resulting in 100 % compliance with audit requirements.

• International Expressive Arts Therapy Association
• The Japanese Association for Humanistic Psychology
• Japan Creative Arts Therapy Association

• License of Mental Health Counselor (License Number:9563)
• Certificate in Trauma Stress Research
• TF-CBT Certified Therapist
• PCIT Certified Therapist
• Certified in Dialectical Behaviors Therapy (C-DBT)
• Completed Initiation and Engagement and Other Drug Treatment for Community Health Workers by the Center for Health Impact
• Mass CAN Assessor Certification
• Completed Family Therapy Seminar by Kodeara Memorial Psychoanalysis Foundation
• Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing Training Level 1

• "Japanese Aesthetics of Life and Expressive Arts Therapy". Presented at the Egypt Expressive Arts Festival, Cairo, Egypt, October 2025.
• Jones, Mika (2024). Genba de Katuyou suru Hyogen Art Therapy no Jitsusai. [Clinical Expressive Arts Therapy Practice]. K. Ono (Ed). Tokyo: Seishin Shobo. 104-144.
• "Decentering Approach of Expressive Arts Therapy." Presented at the International Expressive Arts Therapy Conference, Hong Kong, China, October, 2015.
• "Decentering Approach of Expressive Arts Therapy." Presented at the Japanese Association for Humanistic Psychology Annual Conference, Nagoya, Japan, October 2014.
• Watabiki, M. (1993). Motto Image!: Hito wa image suru doubutu dearu [Human beings and imagination]. Y. Kumagai & M. Watabiki (Eds). Homo Creans [Human Imagination], Tokyo: Nihon University Graduate School of Art, an annual journal that publishes contributions to faculty and students, 60-72.
• Watabiki, M. (2009). Story 8 [My Personal Story]. T. Yoshioka (Ed.), Enjoshoku Enjoron [Therapists’ Theory by Therapists], Tokyo: Akashi Shoten

• Instructor Musehouse, Co, Ltd, Kobe, Japan Musehouse, Co, Ltd, Kobe, Japan Teach trauma-informed case and trauma-focused expressive art therapy. 2022-present
• Course Consultant Arts Communication Lab, Inc. , Kobe, Japan Consulted as a facilitator of the Expressive Arts Therapy courses for the American and Canadian instructors.
• Instructor Expressive Arts Therapy Institute, Tokyo, Japan Teach theory and practice of expressive arts therapy, drama therapy, movement therapy, and bibliotherapy to adult students.
• Instructor Comfort Cooperation, Arts Therapy Institute, Matsuyama, Japan, 2007-2011 Taught theory and practice of arts therapy to students of occupational therapy and adult students

• Planning Committee, 2009 The Japanese Association for Humanistic Psychology Annual Conference
• Planning Committee, Creative Arts Therapy Network, Tokyo, Japan, 2008
• Planning Committee, 2006 The International Conference of Creative Arts Therapy, Tokyo, Japan