About

My name is Reina Otsuka and I am currently a freshman in the University of Michigan College of Literature, Science, and the Arts. I am originally from West Bloomfield, Michigan, a township within the Detroit metropolitan area. Following junior high school, I moved to the city of Yokohama in Japan, where I spent the first half of my high school career at a small international school. After sophomore year, I returned to West Bloomfield and completed my last two years of high school at West Bloomfield High School. I now reside in Ann Arbor, Michigan, where I will complete my undergraduate education.

As a pre-health student, I am very interested in issues relevant to health care. Within the past couple years, I have come to acknowledge the importance of and the diminishment of mental health. Due to the lack of discussion on the topic, I have only recently begun obtaining information and knowledge regarding to mental health. Being that it is a very prevalent topic–especially on college campuses–that I still have much to learn about, I chose Counseling and Psychological Services at U of M to be my organization of focus.

Throughout the course of the first semester, I had the opportunity to have one-on-one interactions with the CAPS faculty, as well as gain extensive knowledge on topics regarding to how mental health is addressed on college campuses. The entire project consisted of an interview with CAPS, an annotated bibliography on the topic of college counseling, as well as an argumentative paper on electronic counseling.

I hope that you will be able to learn as much as I did through my different works, and that you will be able to form some personal connections. Enjoy!