*Who is Jay?*

My name is Jay Otsuka. Some folks still remember me as Toshi Otsuka. As a nursing student in Boston area, I am either in the hospital working or studying. When you don’t find me in the hospital, I am on the Charles River with a canoe or in a coffee shop with a cup of decaf. Prior to the nursing school, I was a mental health therapist and doctoral student in clinical psychology. I had worked as an outpatient and outreach therapist in Massachusetts. Treated primarily boys and girls ages 5-16 with all kinds of anxiety, depression, and “behavioral” issues at a community agency. I was with this agency from 1999 to 2003. Before that, I finished a BA in Psychology (Temple U) and a Master's degree in Psychological Services (Counseling, U of Pennsylvania/Upenn).


Jay is my alter ego, which grew in me as I went through all stuff in US over years. Jay came from the novel, The Great Gatsby. Jay or J is also a character in Haruki Murakami’s The Wild Sheep Chase.

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