Peace, my name is Joy. I come from saltwater people. A lineage of farmers, crab pickers, seamstresses, caretakers, educators, ministers, and entrepreneurs: people who knew resilience, community, and the sacred work of tending to what must be healed.

Born and raised in the American South, I carry the resilience and wisdom of my parents, survivors of Jim Crow and the Vietnam War, and the strength and ingenuity of my African and Indigenous ancestors, while reckoning with the complexity and pain of my European lineage. I am a multidimensional being, embracing the contradictions, richness, and wholeness that make us who we are.

For 15 years, I worked in healing and transformation across community spaces, clinical settings, and private practice. I bring deep clinical expertise in attachment theory and somatic practices, but I've moved beyond traditional psychotherapy to focus on prosperity coaching and embodied healing work. Nothing has shaped my approach more than motherhood and the healing journey it initiated.

Becoming a mother revealed my commitment to intergenerational healing. It pushed me to look honestly at the patterns I inherited, the ones I repeated, and the ones I was determined to break so my daughter could grow up rooted in security, joy, and belonging.

My work is also shaped by surviving a painful, abusive marriage that fractured my sense of self. Healing from narcissistic abuse taught me that prosperity is not just material. It's relational. It's about cultivating secure, loving connections with self and others. It's about learning what you deserve, honoring your worth, and choosing relationships that reflect your truth.

Whole with Joy was born from the moment I realized I wasn't broken. I had been living in broken systems and relationships that taught me to disconnect from my own value. Healing helped me remember who I am beneath fear, shame, and survival.

This work is for anyone who has felt that hollowness of not knowing who they are. For those healing from relationships that dimmed their light. For people tired of performing, proving, and abandoning themselves. For mothers/parents breaking cycles. For anyone ready to remember their wholeness and reclaim their joy.

I believe healing is a return: to your body, to your joy, to the truth that you are whole even when you've been wounded. Like the rose (layered, tender, complex), we bloom when we learn to embrace every part of our experience.

Whole with Joy is a movement rooted in this philosophy. My work centers four pillars: Wholeness (integration, not fragmentation), Embodiment (your body holds wisdom), Joy (feeling your inner security, power, and light), and Earth Connection (reconnecting to the land and our ancestors). Together, these form a pathway back to your essence: your dignity, your worth, and your prosperity.

I believe we all have the capacity to heal, transform, and build new worlds. This is the work: to bring your joy into the world and design a life rooted not in survival, but in truth, intimacy, and true generational wealth.

If you're ready to begin this journey (to know who you are, heal your patterns, and create relationships and a life that reflect your wholeness), I'd be honored to walk with you.