Something has been sitting with you for a while. It might be one specific thing: a relationship gone quiet, a decision you keep circling, a run of bad sleep. Or nothing you can name, just a sense of running at a lower setting than usual. Either way, the thought keeps coming back: maybe it’s time to talk to someone.
Counseling and psychotherapy are, at their simplest, private conversations with a trained professional: you bring what’s going on, and you work on it together, one session at a time. There’s no level of distress you have to reach first.
Who this is for
Dr. Mason works with individuals, roughly six to sixty and beyond, most of them expats and English-speaking Thais. Much of his work is with teens and young adults, an age where study, work and family expectations tend to pile up at once.
Most people who come in do not have a diagnosable disorder. In Dr. Mason’s words, most are dealing with “a bump in the road” and want someone to talk it through with. A hard season at work. A relationship that ended badly. Or just feeling stuck. None of it needs a clinical name to be worth taking seriously.
How he works
Dr. Mason draws on several ways of working, and which one leads depends on what you bring. The one he uses most is cognitive behavioral therapy, a structured, practical method that works on the loop between how you read a situation, how it makes you feel, and what you then do. There is more about it, and what a session is actually like, on the [CBT page](/cbt-therapy/).
Where something else fits better, he will say so and say why.
Who you’d be talking to
Dr. Eric K. Mason is an American psychotherapist, in practice for over 20 years, 14 of them in Bangkok. He holds a doctorate in Counseling Psychology, is a Registered Psychologist, and is licensed in the United States as a clinical mental health counselor. He is also a Licensed Clinical Addictions Specialist, a former Fulbright Scholar, and a member of the American Psychological Association and the Thai Clinical Psychologist Association.
If you’re going to tell a stranger the things you don’t say out loud, you should be able to check their credentials. Any therapist’s license should be verifiable, and Dr. Mason’s is. Sessions are held in English, and he also speaks German and Thai.
What happens when you get in touch
You send a first message, and it commits you to nothing. From there you arrange a first session at whichever Sukhumvit office is easier for you. The practice is open seven days a week, 11am to 6pm.
The first session is a conversation about what’s going on and what you’d want from therapy. If it doesn’t feel like a fit, you can stop there. If part of what’s held you back is how small expat Bangkok can feel, you’re not the first. What you bring into the room is treated as confidential.
Privacy, plainly stated
What you tell us stays with us.
What you share is protected under the same professional confidentiality standards that govern licensed psychologists and counsellors. We don’t confirm to anyone, including family or employers, that you’re a client here.
If you’d rather not share your full name at first, that’s fine, tell us what to call you and we’ll go from there. Read more about confidentiality
Get in touch
Reach out, at your own pace.
A message here doesn’t commit you to anything. Ask a question, describe what’s going on, or just say hello, we’ll take it from there.