Meet Jay Ratia of Ratia Revolution

Today we’d like to introduce you to Jay Ratia.

Hi Jay, thanks for sharing your story with us. To start, maybe you can tell our readers some of your backstories.
I have been in Social Worker for over 19 years. I started my helping career working in a group home that helped individuals with disabilities and from there my journey took many twists and turns from a school social worker to community mental health to forensic social work to inpatient substance abuse treatment.

Then I went into hospitality and bought a few hotels. After being in the hospitality industry another turn came into my career. I wanted to achieve one of my professional goals so I opened a mental health private practice.

We all face challenges, but looking back would you describe it as a relatively smooth road?
It has not been a smooth road nor it has been a bumpy one. The road that I am on until now is a road, I have learned and I am who I am because of this road of life. It has been a long road to achieve my career goal of opening up a private mental health practice, which took about 19 years.

It is about the flame that never went out and burned inside me and now it is a blazing inferno, which I like. I have learned how to be a great therapist with all the professional experiences I was lucky to have and I learned how to operate and run a business and now from the setbacks and insights from both worlds, I have combined them both into my new practice.

Appreciate you sharing that. What should we know about Ratia Revolution?
Ratia Revolution is a mental health practice that not only focuses on traditional disorders, such as, depression, anxiety, grief, and loss, our goal is to help individuals that traditionally have not been helped by the medical field. We want to help those who are new to this country and their families. When navigating a new culture, their norms, and the yearning to belong can cause individuals to have concerns that affect their daily lives.

We help individuals that struggle with assimilation to a new culture and the struggle between having two sometimes completely different cultures. We also help families with intergenerational conflict, which may be due to normal differences of generations or due to being new to a country, being of different generations, and the two different cultures all at once. What I am proud of is our logo and the name of the practice, Ratia Revolution. Our logo may not seem to be extraordinary at first, but if you look at the first R is backward.

When an individual comes to us first, their thoughts may be distorted/twisted, which causes stress, just like the backward R. Then after working on their own Revolution they are able to turn around their mental stress and head straight in their life journey, as the second R. Our name Ratia Revolution, the first Ratia is obvious, my last name. Revolution is what I want therapy to be for an individual.

It is going to work and not just sit on a couch and talk, it is going to have an individual be an active member of the team, it is going to be a struggle, it is going to change someone’s life 180 degrees.

How do you think about luck?
I believe that it takes both luck and hard work in life. The aspects that have I have no control over I see as luck. I am lucky that my immigrant parents left their own country, India came to the US. I am lucky that my parents struggled for me and my sister, so we would have the opportunities we had.

I am lucky that I went to good public schools, had great teachers, I am lucky that I had employers hire me and been able to have the opportunity to get experiences in different professional jobs, I am lucky that I have a great support system, especially my wife and sons, to allow me the opportunity to open up my mental health practice. Luck is beyond you and we all need it in our lives.

Contact Info:

• Email: ratiarevolution@gmail.com
• Website: Ratiarevolution.com
• Instagram: @ratiarevolution