About

Joy has gathered over 15 years of experience in diverse fields including trauma, family/relationship issues, stress/life management, and psychoeducation. Her formal studies focused on communication, intervention, and relationship building. Throughout the last several years, Joy’s work has evolved into a blended approach of conventional counseling techniques and complementary perspectives including a life-coaching manner of personal growth, shamanic practices, and she processes favoring creative life design from a strong, resilient perspective aimed at understanding, growth, and goal attainment. Joy firmly believes clients should start where they can start. She feels counseling to be a revolution of self where clients are supported to look at their past for informative understanding while also looking ahead to be more intentional and in control of their lives. Her aim is to help develop a deeper, more congruent sense-of-self. She works with the mind-body connection, firmly believing we are able to rewire our brain and related behavioral patterns through therapy. Transformation is her passion! She builds positive relationships and makes it easy to talk about topics that are challenging. Her therapeutic style is centered on a foundation of respect, compassion, and empowerment. She knows how to help you feel comfortable while working through uncomfortable issues. The field of psychology is constantly evolving. Joy focuses on keeping up with the latest research through reading books, articles, and training. She has created many life transitions and is proud to say she is a life-long learner and sees the benefit of this reflected in her therapy sessions. Joy enjoys being a part of the lives of others, seeing how well her clients are doing and values their progress in treatment.