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Updated: August 19, 2024 / 40 Under Forty, 25th anniversary

40 Under Forty 2024: Leonard Jusme, mental health pioneer

A man wears a grey suit, vest, and pants, and a black button down with one hand on his chest. Photo I Erika Sidor Leonard Jusme

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.

Leonard Jusme, 38
  • 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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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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