Jay Sontag

Jay Sontag is a New York Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) with four years of clinical experience. Jay focuses on life purpose, relationships, grief, parenting, and LGBTQ concerns in their work. They are an LGBTQ identified clinician and a lifelong New Yorker.

Jay practices from humanistic and existential perspectives. In sessions the emphasis is on helping people name what matters to them and find ways to act on it. Conversations are grounded and practical so that daily challenges become easier to manage.

They also use client-centered methods and narrative approaches to look at how stories about the past shape present choices. That can help with family-of-origin issues, communication problems, shame, and guilt. Jay brings trauma-informed ideas into the work when grief or difficult past events are present.

People come to Jay with a range of concerns, including adoption and foster care questions, polyamory and non-monogamous relationship dynamics, kink and alternative sex culture concerns, gender dysphoria, and HIV-related stress. They also work with caregivers dealing with strain and with women’s issues tied to life transitions.

Sessions aim to be straightforward. Jay helps people clarify priorities, weigh options, and take the next small steps. To begin, clients complete a short matching questionnaire and schedule a first session through the See online therapy options button.

How Jay’s therapeutic approaches translate to online sessions

Client-Centered Therapy focuses on listening and reflecting so clients feel heard and can make their own choices. Online sessions using this approach let someone speak through what matters and try out new ways of making decisions about work, relationships, or parenting.

Existential Therapy looks at meaning, responsibility, and the everyday choices that shape a life. In remote sessions this can mean talking through values, confronting uncertainty, and weighing realistic next steps when someone is unsure what comes after a major change.

Finding the right approach is part of the work. Jay will talk with each client about goals, preferences, and the issues they want to address, and together they decide which methods to emphasize. That collaborative process can be started in the first online meeting and adjusted as progress is made.

The practical benefits of online sessions include easier scheduling and fitting therapy into a busy week. Confirm the current session options before booking since the biography did not list specific formats. Many people find remote appointments let them have shorter check-ins, avoid travel time, and use quieter times during the day for focused conversation.