Jason Fly, Ph.D.

Healing Space Postdoctoral Clinical Fellow

(he/him)

Jason Fly, Ph.D., is Healing Space’s postdoctoral clinical fellow through our partnership with the Gender Health Center. Based in Sacramento, he sees Healing Space clients and supervises a doctoral student. He was among Healing Space’s first therapists in training when the clinic opened in 2021.

Jason completed his doctoral training in clinical psychology at UC Santa Barbara, where he worked in Dr. Erika Felix’s Families and Stress Lab. He holds a B.A. in psychology from the University of Northern Iowa and an M.A. in counseling psychology from UCSB.

Before UCSB, he worked in a psychoneuroendocrinology lab studying the effects of stress hormones on health outcomes, and in a cross-cultural emotions lab where he developed an interest in differential expressions of empathy. He was principal investigator of an international study comparing the U.S. and Brazil on ethnocultural empathy and racial implicit bias.

His research focuses on clinical tools to prevent and treat trauma-related stress disorders, particularly narrative strategies such as cognitive empathy, and on the sociocultural factors that shape prevention and treatment for underserved communities, especially African Americans.