You have been struggling with feeling anxious, not good enough, and not fully satisfied with your life or relationship while your life looks successful from outside. You are aware that those emotional struggles may stem from your childhood experiences or trauma. You have tried therapy before but you feel exhausted from constantly trying to improve yourself and not seeing significant changes in your mood or painful relationship patterns. Now you are hoping to find a right therapist for you who truly understands the root cause of your long-term struggles and help you experience changes.

Hi, my name is Kaoru Oguro, and I became a licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist in New York  after experiencing how therapy can tremendously change my life as a client and decided to change my career hoping to provide the same life changing experiences and relief for other people who have not yet found true healings from their old wounds in the past so that they can finally be able to live a life feeling confident and fulfilled.

My expertise in working with individual clients is helping high-achievers who appear to be successful outside but emotionally struggle with their anxiety, low self-esteem, low self-worth, and dissatisfaction in their life. I help them find their own voice and desire, deepening connections and empathy to their own feelings, and building trust in themselves. After our work together, many of my clients become able to feel confident in their authentic selves with a strong sense of “this is me,”  and move towards their own desirable life, and develop deeper connections in relationship and with themselves.

I have also helped many couples when both partners are stuck in their unhealthy dynamic and unproductive repetitive communication issues. If you are struggling with your partner with the same repetitive issues, I will work with you to help understand each other’s emotions more with effective communication and nurture their deeper emotional connections.

I strongly believe in what I can offer not only as your therapist but as a person with various life experiences as an Asian woman, immigrant, parent, partner, and career changer in addition to my clinical training and theoretical approach in my work with my clients. 

If you would like to explore how we can work together to finally bring you deep emotional healings and changes, schedule a free consultation call with me today. You deserve to live a life full of excitement, happiness, and deeper emotional connections with yourself and others.

Professional experiences:

-Blanton-Peale Institute and Counseling Center, NY (Staff Therapist)

-The Fifth Avenue Counseling Center, NY (Clinical Intern/psychotherapist)

-Womankind, NY (Clinical Intern & Client Advocate for domestic violence and sexual assault survivors)

Credentials & Training: 

-New York State Licensed Clinical Social Worker  (License number: 094981)

-AEDP Institute Level 3 trained therapist 

-Transformative Couples Therapy trained therapist

Education:

-Master of Social Work from Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College, New York, NY

-Master of Comparative Civilization from Rikkyo University, Tokyo, Japan