Education

PhD, Counseling Psychology, University of Wisconsin – Madison
MA, Counseling, Michigan State University
BE, Mechanical Engineering, Waseda University

Research

Dr. Minami is an Associate Professor of Counseling Psychology in the School of Education at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Minami’s primary research interests are in psychosocial wellness, from a prevention and treatment systems perspective. Three areas are of interest: (1) effectiveness of psychotherapy in natural clinical settings, (2) sources of variability in therapists’ psychotherapy competence, and (3) applying the implications of the above into a psychosocial wellness system.