Fae Cushing, MA, LAC, CPRP, Mental Health Clinician

Fae (she/her) is a a Licensed Associate Counselor at Joy

Fae (she/her) is a Licensed Associate Counselor of Joy Mental Fitness, which has locations in Jersey City, New Jersey, and Boston, Massachusetts. Fae also provides telehealth services to patients throughout New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Connecticut.

Experience & Specialties

She has seen first-hand that people can recover from mental illness. Helping clients get well is her life’s work. Empathy is a key concept for Fae and, in building trusting, safe, non-judgmental relationships with her clients, she creates a space where wellness can grow.

Fae specializes in helping adults living with trauma, depression, anxiety, and stress in whichever way works best for them. Her eclectic theoretical orientation includes strengths-based, person-centered, and cognitive-behavioral paradigms, and she is always open to new evidence-based practices to help her clients.

Fae is passionate about ending the stigma surrounding people living with mental illness and has involved herself in activism in her community for many years to effect positive change.

Education & Training

Fae received her Master of Arts in Mental Health and Wellness Counseling from New York University and her Bachelor of Science in Psychiatric Rehabilitation from Rutgers University. She is a licensed associate counselor and is also a Certified Psychiatric Rehabilitation Practitioner (CPRP). Fae also serves as an Adjunct Instructor at Rutgers University in the School of Health Professionals.