Jay Soucy

I specialize in healing trauma, anxiety, creative and performance blocks, existential and relationship issues, and the impacts of social forces on mental health. I tend to fit well with patients who are smart, creative, funny, introspective, curious, and ready for change.

Informed by my background in the arts, I harness the power of creativity and improvisation to build the therapeutic relationship, identify unhelpful relational patterns, expand repertoires of coping responses, and foster creativity, vitality, and play.

My clinical lens is grounded in contemporary psychoanalytic approaches, behavioral and mindfulness-based therapies including Schema Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, and post-colonial, feminist, Marxist, and queer theories. I also teach psychology graduate students about the art of psychotherapy.

I believe that therapy need not be a rarefied, exclusively serious space. Lightness, fun, and a genuine connection are just as important as the more vulnerable work we do.

It is also important to me that you know I identify as anti-racist as well as an LGBTQ+ and feminist ally. I hope for the liberation of all peoples.