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Highly qualified clinicians, seasoned experience and kind human beings – gathered in one place.

BeyondBleu brings together a carefully chosen group of clinicians bound not by uniformity, but by shared values: psychological depth, clear ethical boundaries, and genuine human care. Each therapist arrives with distinct training, languages, and areas of expertise, allowing you to find a thoughtful, well-matched clinician — without the fatigue of scrolling through hundreds of anonymous profiles.

Meet Our Therapists

Tumee Hugginson

Clinical Director | MA | Couples Therapy • Trauma & Betrayal • Intensive Work
Languages: English, Japanese

Tumee Hugginson is the founder and clinical director of BeyondBleu. She works exclusively with couples who are no longer interested in surface-level conversation—and are ready to address what is actually shaping their relationship beneath the arguments, silences, and recurring patterns.

Licensed in clinical psychology in the United States and refined through many years of practice in Tokyo, Tumee brings together academic rigor, sharp relational insight, and a steady, grounding presence. She is trained through the Gottman Institute and integrates this evidence-based framework with attachment theory, trauma-informed care, and depth-oriented psychotherapy. Her work is precise and calm, marked by an ability to slow difficult moments without avoiding them, and to name what matters without escalating conflict.

Tumee is particularly sought out by couples navigating betrayal, infidelity, PTSD, and the aftermath of emotional rupture. Through her Couples Intensive Therapy, she offers a focused and contained space where long-standing dynamics can be examined and reorganized—often when traditional weekly therapy no longer feels sufficient. The work centers on restoring emotional safety, regulating nervous system reactivity, and helping partners speak honestly about pain, responsibility, loyalty, and repair.

She also offers select programs for pivotal relational moments, including premarital work, affair-recovery intensives, and consultations for new parents adjusting to the profound psychological shifts of early parenthood.

Her practice is especially well suited for cross-cultural and bilingual couples, expatriate relationships, and partnerships under sustained pressure from demanding careers, relocations, illness, or long-standing emotional distance. As someone in a binational marriage herself, Tumee brings both clinical expertise and lived understanding to the complexities of intimacy across cultures.

Beyond her clinical work, Tumee personally curates and supervises the BeyondBleu team, ensuring that every clinician reflects the practice’s defining values: depth, ethical clarity, and uncompromising human care.

Best suited for couples facing trauma, betrayal, or major relational turning points.

Rutuja Kulkarni

Counselling Psychologist | MA | Individual Therapy for Adults and Adolescents • Life Transitions & Emotional Wellbeing”
Languages: English, Hindi

Rutuja Kulkarni is a counselling psychologist whose work is grounded in warmth, clarity, and a deep respect for each person’s inner world. Originally from India and now based in Japan, her own experience of relocation and cultural transition informs her sensitivity to identity, belonging, and emotional adjustment in adulthood.

With over six years of clinical experience, Rutuja primarily works with adults, supporting them through anxiety, low mood, relationship difficulties, life transitions, and periods of emotional overwhelm. She works with concerns such as communication challenges, emotional disconnect, attachment patterns, and relational stress, and also has experience working with younger clients (from age 8 onwards). Her therapeutic presence is calm and grounding, offering clients a sense of being accompanied rather than managed.

Clients often describe Rutuja as steady, empathic, and quietly encouraging. Her work focuses on helping adults understand patterns—both internal and relational—that may be holding them back, build emotional resilience, and develop tools that feel usable in everyday life—not just within the therapy space.

Best suited for adults seeking gentle, integrative support for relationship concerns, life transitions, emotional strain, or personal growth.

Clients often describe Rutuja as steady, empathic, and quietly encouraging. Her work focuses on helping people understand what may be holding them back, build emotional resilience, and develop tools that feel usable in real life—not just in the therapy room.

Best suited for adults seeking gentle, integrative support for relationship concerns, life transitions, emotional strain, or personal growth.

Martina Bottazzo

Psychologist | MA | Individual Therapy • Trauma-Informed CBT • Expat & Identity Work Languages: English, Italian, Japanese

Martina Bottazzo is a licensed psychologist whose work blends structure with sensitivity, offering clients both emotional safety and clear direction. Her approach is grounded in trauma-informed cognitive-behavioural therapy, thoughtfully integrated with relational and depth-oriented perspectives.

She works primarily with adults and young adults experiencing anxiety, depression, burnout, chronic stress, and attachment-related difficulties. Martina has particular experience supporting clients affected by religious or spiritual trauma, and she pays close attention to how early environments shape patterns of autonomy, boundaries, and self-worth later in life.

Martina is currently a PhD candidate at Osaka University, where her research focuses on the long-term psychological impact of adverse childhood experiences in religious contexts. Alongside her academic work, she brings broad clinical experience across school, community, hospital, and telehealth settings.

Having lived abroad herself, Martina is especially attuned to the emotional and identity-related challenges faced by expatriates and individuals navigating multicultural lives. Her therapeutic space is inclusive, reflective, and grounded—supporting clients in making sense of their experiences and moving forward with greater agency.

Best suited for adults seeking structured, thoughtful work around trauma, identity, and long-standing patterns.

Dr. Lorenzo Geirola

Clinical Neuropsychologist |PhD | Neuropsychological Assessment • ADHD & Cognitive Clarity Languages: English, Italian

Dr. Lorenzo Geirola is a clinical neuropsychologist whose work brings together neuroscience, careful assessment, and humane clinical care. Trained at the University of Trento and specialized in Clinical Neuropsychology at the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, he offers a rigorous yet deeply personalized approach.

His expertise includes neurocognitive assessment, neurorehabilitation, and psychotherapy. He works with individuals experiencing ADHD, anxiety and mood disorders, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and neurological or cognitive conditions—including neurodegenerative and movement-related disorders.

Dr. Geirola integrates cognitive-behavioural therapy with mindfulness-based approaches, supporting emotional regulation, cognitive flexibility, and resilience. Assessment is not used to label or limit, but to clarify how the brain is currently functioning—and how it can adapt under the right conditions.

Actively involved in research on neuroplasticity and neuromodulation, Dr. Geirola brings scientific precision to deeply human questions. His work is guided by confidence in the brain’s capacity for change, and in the value of clarity as a foundation for meaningful progress.

Best suited for clients seeking diagnostic clarity around attention, cognition, or neuropsychological concerns.

Toyomi Sakai

Psychotherapist | MA | Individual & Couples Therapy • Corporate & Executive Support • EAP Languages: English, Japanese

Toyomi Sakai is a psychotherapist with extensive experience working at the intersection of psychological depth and professional life. She holds a Master of Social Work from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a Bachelor’s degree in Western Philosophy, reflecting a long-standing engagement with both emotional and existential dimensions of human experience.

After returning to Japan in 2007, Toyomi worked with Advantage Risk Management, providing counselling and psychological training to corporate clients across industries. Her work supports professionals navigating burnout, workplace conflict, critical incidents, and the emotional cost of sustained responsibility.

Her clinical background spans adult inpatient psychiatry, children’s welfare institutions, and long-term outpatient work in both the United States and Japan. She works with mood and anxiety disorders, PTSD, trauma related to abuse, addiction, personality-related difficulties, and complex relational dynamics.

Toyomi regularly works within EAP frameworks and is especially valued by executives and professionals who require discretion, clarity, and psychologically grounded support that fits demanding lives. Her style is steady, thoughtful, and composed—offering a space where clients can stabilize, reflect, and move forward with confidence.

Best suited for professionals and executives seeking discreet, psychologically grounded care.

Yoshihiro Odagiri

Counsellor | MA | Work & Identity • Career Transitions • Relational Dynamics in Professional Life Languages: English, Japanese

Yoshihiro Odagiri is a counsellor with over ten years of experience supporting individuals across the lifespan, from early childhood through adulthood. His work focuses on the psychological terrain where professional identity, personal values, and emotional life intersect—often under conditions of pressure, transition, or uncertainty.

He has particular experience working with individuals in organizational and business contexts, including career development and transition, workplace conflict, harassment and misconduct, leave-of-absence support, and other work-related psychological concerns. His approach is informed by an understanding of how professional environments shape emotional well-being, relationships, and self-concept over time.

Yoshihiro’s clinical style is grounded in deep attentiveness and presence. Rather than relying on fixed techniques, he listens carefully to what is spoken and unspoken—words, emotions, silence, and relational dynamics. Although trained in multiple therapeutic models, he adapts his work moment by moment, moving at the client’s pace and respecting their readiness.

He places strong emphasis on the safety of the therapeutic relationship, believing that meaningful change emerges when clients feel genuinely seen, understood, and supported. His sessions offer a calm, reflective space in which clients can make sense of complex inner and professional experiences without pressure or judgment.

Best suited for professionals navigating complex work environments and individuals seeking depth, clarity, and psychological safety during periods of transition.

A practice built on empathy, depth, and genuine human connection.

Vision

At Beyond Bleu, our vision is to make therapy a space where emotional depth meets everyday life — where people can rediscover steadiness, curiosity, and compassion within themselves. We believe emotional growth should feel safe, not overwhelming, and that even quiet insight can change how we live and relate to others.

Mission

Our mission is to offer thoughtful, evidence-informed psychotherapy that supports long-term emotional transformation. Every session is guided by respect for your pace and individuality. We aim to help clients untangle old patterns, build resilience, and reconnect with their own sense of possibility — one conversation at a time.

Ready to Begin Your Journey Toward Emotional Clarity?

You’ve already taken the most meaningful step by being here. Together, we can uncover what’s been holding you back and create new ways of feeling steady, connected, and alive.

Our work is about more than coping — it’s about rediscovering your own rhythm, your calm, and your strength.