Jay is a licensed clinical social worker and therapist working in an embedded role in the upper campus residence halls. Jay received his bachelor's degree in philosophy from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and a master's degree in social work from the University of Pittsburgh. Jay utilizes a holistic, humanistic approach to therapy that pulls from existential, psychodynamic, and relational psychoanalytic traditions. Jay is also a member of the University Counseling Center's Trauma Treatment Team and is passionate about helping students to process and work through trauma, grief, depression, anxiety, and other experiences. When he is not at work, Jay enjoys spending time working in the garden, fixing things around the house, playing music, taking pictures, and sailing on Lake Arthur.
