Embrace the adventure of healing with compassionate guidance
Therapy through Talk, Ketamine & Climbing
3rd Culture Therapy respects that the human experience is complex and multidimensional. It embraces diverse perspectives informed by different cultural and lived experiences. It aims to give space for your intimate experiences to come alive; all content and feelings are worthy of being listened to. It recognizes that the default waking consciousness is only one way of being in the world, and there are many consciousnesses worth exploring. It is driven by compassion, understanding, and creativity. It offers adventure and movement towards well-being.
TALK THERAPY
Anxiety, depression, and stress can be a sign that you need new tools to meet new challenges. I offer evidence-based psychoeducation that can empower you. I pull upon diverse multicultural experiences to offer you fresh perspectives and support motivation for change. I am familiar working with diverse folks of different walks of life, especially Black, Indigenous, People of Color, 1st - 2nd generation immigrants, queers, creatives, and techies. I address oppression trauma, (various -isms). I specialize in gender and sexual diversity and life transitions. $220 per 50 min session, sliding scale available. Free through NQTTCN and Lotus Therapy Fund scholarships.
KETAMINE THERAPY
Ketamine Assisted Psychotherapy (KAP) is clinically effective in treating PTSD, OCD, anxiety, depression, and adjustment disorder. I provide in-home visits and virtual sessions. $600 per 3-4 hour session.
CLIMBING THERAPY
Climbing therapy is an innovative treatment using movement, exercise, communication, and relationship building to improve mental health. Climbing is a full body and mental experience that mirrors the challenges, emotions, and triumphs of everyday life. In-person in gyms and outdoors in Berkeley and Bay Area, sliding scale.
What brought Jay to healing work?
Jay Louie 雷貽丰 LMFT (they/them) provides transformative therapies for folks wanting breakthroughs. They address complex trauma with compassion and curiosity and advocate for clients’ needs, truths, deep desires, and purpose. They are committed to cultivating a safe, adventurous, and inspiring space for clients to witness all parts and expressions of themselves show up, grow, and heal.
For Jay this work is not theory. Growing up in multilingual immigrant communities in Hong Kong, Canada, and Central America, Jay experienced multiple cultures, but also traumas resulting in c-PTSD that resisted conventional treatments. Through talk psychotherapy and psychedelic therapy, Jay was able to access holistic healing that inspired them to complete a psychology degree with a thesis on psychedelics and trait empathy. The passion to share this medicine compelled Jay to move to the Bay in 2014, where they helped build the first Zendo and served as a sitter for those undergoing challenging trips. They earned a Masters in Holistic Counseling focusing on Intersectionality and Sex Work, trained at an LGBTQ+ center, and completed programs in Sex Therapy, MDMA Therapy (MAPS), and Liberation Academy. They co-founded the Anti-Racist Solidarity Working Group and were Project Director for a city-funded telehealth program serving queer trans elders and HIV+ survivors. They co-founded Queer Crush, a rock climbing affinity nonprofit.
Jay believes that embodiment and intimate contact with nature are essential to thriving. Chinese medicine, Eastern spirituality, and rock climbing are powerful healing forces in their life and inspire them to bring plants, light, and natural elements into the healing space.
Jay provides experienced and accepting guidance to help many break through decade-old barriers to reclaim their worth, joy, beauty, and power. It is Jay’s life’s work to support clients in transforming dysphoria to euphoria, dissociation to embodiment, disconnection and shame to integration and liberation.