Jaya Roy, MA, MSW, CNC, Licensed Clinical Social Worker
San Diego, California
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My Approach to Therapy
You didnt choose the life events that shape you today but you can choose to evolve or adapt in a way that better aligns with your values, ethics, and how you wish to live in this world. Healing is integral in order to move with intention in midst of a polycrisis. While we cant control many world or life events on the individual level, we can show up grounded and embodied to help build a society in reflection of compassion.
Your body and heart carry your history, trauma, and internalized conditioning from society, family, and more, creating adaptations that unintentionally influence your thoughts, beliefs, and actions. Some of your protective adaptions may no longer be serving you today. I believe not only does our hardship shape us, but also safe, genuine, and connected relationships. Which is why we can choose to reshape or grow in alignment with ourselves through fostering connection. Healing moves through the authentic relationship created by therapist and client. Im not here to fix you, but to provide a space of guidance, support, care, and refuge. You become an important part of my community. My care is deep and my investment in your healing is reflected through my active engagement to walk alongside your path.
I use an integrative approach, weaving aspects of the mind, body, and spirit through decolonial, liberation, and somatic-based practices. My background in cognitive psychology, social work, nutrition, mindfulness, and somatics supports creating a space that is holistic and responsive to each client's needs for deep healing. My range of specialties includes navigating trauma, oppression, chronic pain or illness, eating challenges, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive (OCD), and more. I also provide niche services for clinicians, couples, or individuals embodying decolonial practices, COVID-cautious affirming care, and relationship therapy for queer, Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC), folks in interracial relationships, and or Covid Cautious couples.
If you feel curious or ready for deep and holistic care, reach out for a free 15 minute consultation. More information about me and my services can be found on my website: https:www.kantimentalhealth.com.
My Practice & Services
I offer workshops, coaching, and peer consultations. If you are a fellow therapist looking to consult on a specific topic of ways to embody Decolonial and Liberation practices in your work, please reach out!
My View on the Purpose of Psychotherapy
You might be wondering if therapy is even worth the time, energy, and financial investment because so much of our stress can be related to larger life events. Whether that is our family, community, oppression, climate crisis and more. We are in fact in a time of a polycrisis. Psychotherapy will not directly change these larger issues. However, by support your healing, growth, creating new pathways to show up for yourself and the world, you might have more capacity to take action in your community. My holistic approach to therapy is meant to provide a space to build our social awareness and understanding while also addressing your individual needs. Together, your insight can be powerful in reshaping this world. We are dealing with a lot, so much so that one nervous system is not meant to bear it. However, there is a power in creating genuine, safe, connected relationships that open our ability for change down to our nervous system. You values, perspective, beliefs, and politics are all welcomed here.
My View on the Nature of 'Disorders'
If you are feeling self-conscious or overwhelmed with the idea you might have a mental health disorder, you are certainly not alone. We often approach mental health diagnoses as issues that exist within the individual that need to be fixed. However, have you ever thought about your anxiety, depression, eating disorder etc...might be an understandable and protective adaptation from your body? Furthermore, what we considered to be normal or disordered is highly culturally and politically based. Many diagnoses from the past were used as methods to gain control. Drapetomania a mental health "illness" designated to enslaved folks who fled for their lives in the 1800's. Pathologizing our innate responses to life events or stressors is not new. Rather than blaming individuals, let's focus on contextualizing our experience in our history, culture, politics, oppression, philosophies, and physiological response to gain deeper understanding and compassion. With awareness and compassion, we can build new pathways that better serve our values and living a meaningful life.
Expertise & Specialties
Age Groups I Work With
TeensAdults
Groups I Work With
Racial oppression Multicultural counseling Gender and LGBTQIA+ affirming support Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) therapist support Decolonizing therapy practice support Relationship therapy Indigenous decolonial affirming support COVID-19 conscious, affirming support Trauma Posttraumatic stress (PTSD) Anxiety Obsessive compulsive condition Eating challenges Intimate partner violence Chronic pain and/or illness Adult children of emotionally challenging parents
Therapy Services & Specialties
Concerns & Challenges Addressed
Abuse / Abuse Survivor IssuesAnxietyAttachment IssuesBody ImageCancerChronic Illness / DisabilityChronic PainCodependency / Dependency
Therapeutic Approaches & Evidence-Based Methods
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)Body-Mind PsychotherapyFeminist TherapyHolistic PsychotherapyInterpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB)Mindfulness-Based InterventionsSomatic Psychotherapy