Meet Joe

Mental Health Literacy is nonnegotiable to thriving in an increasingly complex world

My mom tells a story about how, as a 7-year-old watching my parents converse, I would keep a notebook with two columns – one for my mom and one for my dad. If one of them raised their voice, I would add a tally to their column. At the end of the conversation or the day, I would give each parent their tally list. 20 years later when I told her I was going to school for psychotherapy, she told me she was 0% surprised; my childhood self had already predicted my future. 

But while my mom predicted my career as a therapist, my journey to mental health work felt a lot more ambiguous, a compilation of experiences – being a gay man in a straight man’s world and losing my dad at 11 years old – rather than a light bulb moment. Y

Today, I’m a psychotherapist with a private practice, a writer, content creator and a podcaster. My research and content focus on how can you – someone without an [advanced] education in psychology – contextualize mental health (mis)information and simplify the political & cultural landscape through psychology.

You can find my writings in my newsletter, Psychobabble, my content at @joenuccitherapy, and my debut book coming to booksellers near you in 2025. 

I live in New York, where I run by the water, attend EDM concerts, and make friends in elevators.