About Us
Cardinal Counseling Associates was created with one mission in mind: to bring honest and real support to honest and real people. Everyone here at Cardinal Counseling Associates believes you are the expert of your own mental health journey! We simply provide a safe place for you to process some of the more difficult challenges and discover new ways to ease the pain, sadness, anxiety, or other negative symptoms you might be feeling.
Our partnership with you is the center of our work as we bring strategies to our space that are proven effective. Now is the time to make the step to bring honest and real healing to your life! Contact us, now!
Jay Tunnicliffe – MSW, LCSW, CSSW
Jay is the owner and lead therapist at Cardinal Counseling Associates. After obtaining his graduate degree from Rutgers University, Jay became a NJ Certified School Social Worker and began working full time in the New Jersey School Based Youth Services Program Model inside numerous schools in Southern New Jersey. After spending time serving High School students as a therapist and program manager, Jay opened Cardinal Counseling.
Jay’s experience has stretched from working in New Jersey’s public schools, various outpatient settings in Community Mental Health Agencies, and also Intensive In-Community Therapy in New Jersey’s Children’s System of Care.
Being trained in various modalities of therapy, Jay’s style uses techniques from appropriate evidence-based styles to help bring healing and hope to his clients. Jay has been trained in providing evidence-based interventions inspired from modalities such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, and more. He specializes in working with clients who identify as LGBTQ+, those struggling with emotional regulation, and those working to increase their self-esteem.
Jay’s passion is community and serving those within it. He volunteers with local youth organizations in his hometown, and mentors area youth. At the end of the day, his greatest joy is his family. Jay and his partner, Cameron, live in Atlantic County and share two amazing (but slightly hyper) dogs, Asher and Murphy.