40 Under Forty 2024: Leonard Jusme, mental health pioneer
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Leonard Jusme
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A handful of married couples – each in their own right – have won the 40 Under Forty award over the years, including (from left) Jake and Sarah Connell Sanders (Classes of 2014 and 2020) and Olivia and Leonard Jusme (Class of 2024), pictured here at Moore State Park in Paxton.
- Title Director
- Company R.E.S.T Counseling Services, in Millbury
- Residence Worcester
- Birthplace Port-au-Prince, Haiti
- College American International College
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Though he opened his private counseling practice R.E.S.T in one of the most challenging times for business, in the midst of the 2020 COVID pandemic, Jusme had already clocked in nearly a decade’s worth of work in the mental health field.
Since opening, Jusme has grown his practice from one provider to three providers of color on a staff offering a range of expertise including depression treatment, trauma therapy, and racial identity. In addition to R.E.S.T, Jusme has worked at Worcester-based Enlightened Interventions as a clinician since 2016, providing individual and family counseling, crisis intervention, violence prevention, and provider supervision.
Supporting the mental health of his community, Jusme offers counseling services to parents and students alike at the Nativity School of Worcester every Wednesday during the school year. He has volunteered in adult hospice and at Springfield-based Shriners Children's New England. In the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake, in he served as an interpreter for injured children, offering assistance in Haitian Kreyòl.
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