Jocelyn Eve envisions therapy as a practice in which the culture within and between offerings, onboarding of clinicians and clients, case management, and personal development and advocacy promote the healing, empowerment, and safety of people with mental health related challenges, physical and psychiatric disabilities or trauma. Staff and clients alike will receive equal, responsive, safe, barrier- free support from compassionate professionals, staff, and interns who are knowledgeable about and comfortable with supporting folks in embracing a trauma-informed and disability-inclusive lens.
Our mission is to change the culture within and between all mental and medical health partners to enhance services to promote healing, empowerment and safety for all.
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Meet Jocelyn
deeply intuitive
radically hopeful
engaged, warm and open
Jocelyn’s labor focuses on the whole-istic health of individuals; our shared intersectional communities; and the planet.
Compassionate, authentic and resourceful, Jocelyn is committed to working with individuals and communities in solidarity to heal the effects of ongoing trauma.
Jocelyn is the Founding Director of Jocelyn Eve Therapy. As a community organizer versed in systems thinking, organizational and cultural change, she guides our team. Jocelyn is an independently licensed clinical social worker, coach, and group therapist. She received her Masters of Social Work at Smith College and her Bachelor’s degree in Human Rights. Jocelyn completed training at Mass Mental Health Center, which is one of the nation's first public psychiatric teaching hospital, an agency of the Department of Mental Health and an academic division of the Harvard Medical School at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Working with underserved populations, particularly those with chronic and severe mental illness, Jocelyn pursued advanced training in compassion mind training, SMART recovery, and metacognitive therapy in an intensive outpatient dialectical-behavioral therapy (DBT) program.
Jocelyn aims to provide person-centered, strength-based, and trauma aware care. She likes to incorporate expressive and mindfulness-based therapies into her work, whenever helpful. Her treatment approach is also grounded in relational, intersubjective, and attachment theories and framed by social justice. Jocelyn’s practice is rooted in the belief that each of us are inherently whole and deserving of joy, freedom, and care.
For 5 years, Jocelyn worked as a coach with Rachel Grant Coaching offering services for individuals in the Beyond Surviving program (focused on sexual abuse recovery). She also provides consultation with organizations on inclusion/equity/justice.
For the past decade she has worked in various mental health and psychiatric settings ranging from therapeutic mentorship and home based work to inpatient, workforce development, and intensive outpatient services. She has in-depth experience working with those who hold a wide array of complex, intersecting identities and in particular with those who are LGBTQ+ identified. She has long been committed to the field of domestic violence/intimate partner violence. She values bringing social justice perspectives to supporting individuals and groups and aspires to consider the ways trauma, historical contexts, oppression, bias, privilege, access, diversity, equity, belonging and inclusion are in the mix with us in our life journey.
Education
B.A Mount Holyoke College, 2008
B.A. Trinity College (Human Rights), 2011
Independent coursework:
Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute, 2016-Present
Massachusetts Institute for Psychoanalysis, 2017- Present
M.S.W. Smith College School of Social Work, 2018
Awards
Social Justice Award, 2011
Women’s Empowerment Activist Award, 2011
Professional Activities
Scholarship Recipient Teleos Institute Leaders, Trauma, Race & Leadership
Shields Scholarship Recipient & Member, Northeastern Society Group Psychotherapy, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Task Force
Member, American Group Psychotherapy Association
Member, New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma & Dissociation
Founding Member of the Dharma@_A Distance-Cambridge Insight Meditation Center
Volunteer Boston Area Rape Crisis Center
Volunteer, Center for Violence Prevention & Recovery
Founding Member & Committee Member of Survivor Leadership Collective in partnership with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center’s Violence Prevention & Recovery
Credentials
Independently Licensed Clinical Social Worker, Massachusetts #123892
Mental Health First Aid certification
Reiki I Practitioner certification
Phoenix Rising Yoga Therapy Level II
Jocelyn’s Approach
Jocelyn’s therapeutic foundation is based in modern psychoanalysis which means you are encouraged to say whatever comes into your mind, without censoring. This process allows you to truly express yourself and to explore your unconscious mind. Clients describe her approach as warm and non-judgmental. Jocelyn’s integrative approach is most informed by attachment and psychodynamic theory, mindfulness, and Internal Family Systems.
Just like there are many kinds of clients, there are many kinds of therapeutic styles. Jocelyn’s goal is to work together to identify what works well given your needs and goals of therapy. Jocelyn has have experience incorporating various tools—like creative writing, meditation, and movement—into sessions. She offers support navigating difficult questions and complex topics with warmth, creativity, and humor. Jocelyn strives to create a safer space by attending to how systems of power (with respect to race, gender, sexuality, class, and ability, among others) shape identities and relationships.