“This joy that I have the world didn't give it to me & the world can't take it away.”
Meet Joy
Peace, my name is Joy.
I come from saltwater people, a lineage of farmers, crab pickers, seamstresses, caretakers, educators, ministers, and entrepreneurs. People who understood the rhythms of labor and rest, grief and celebration, tending the land and tending one another.
Born and raised in the American South, I carry the living memory of African, Indigenous, and European lineages alongside the wisdom of generations who learned to endure, adapt, create, and love through rupture and change.
For over 15 years, I have worked in healing and transformation across community spaces, clinical settings, and private practice. My work weaves attachment theory, somatic practice, spirituality, and earth-rooted wisdom. Yet more than any training, it has been my own becoming that has shaped how I hold others.
Whole with JOY was born from my own journey of unlearning, remembering, and returning to myself.
Through healing, I learned what it means to embrace the fullness of my humanity — the joy and the grief, the sensual and the sacred, the strength and the vulnerability.
Motherhood deepened this understanding, revealing healing as a living, intergenerational practice: becoming aware of what we inherit, what we repeat, and what we choose to transform.
Again and again, I witnessed this same truth unfold while supporting others: when people begin meeting themselves with compassion and reconnecting with every part of who they are, life begins to change.
Relationships deepen.
Possibility expands.
A new sense of belonging emerges.
Through this journey, I came to understand prosperity not as accumulation, but as an embodied state of wholeness that transforms how we relate, live, love, and belong to ourselves and the world around us.
Whole with JOY is the expression of that understanding — a path of embodiment, healing, intimacy, inner prosperity, and JOY.
The Pillars
Wholeness:
Welcoming every part of yourself back into belonging.
Embodiment:
Listening to the wisdom of your body and allowing it to guide how you live.
JOY:
Aliveness, pleasure, connection, and presence as your birthright.
Earth Connection:
Remembering your relationship to the living world.
Education
MA: Clinical Mental Health Counseling, NCCU
BA: Psychology, minor Public Health, UNC-Greensboro
Lineage & Learning
Somatic Experiencing • Internal Family Systems • Trauma Resiliency Model • Ecotherapy • Trauma-Conscious Yoga • Embodied Intimacy & Relationship Coaching • Circle of Security
Over the past fifteen years across community mental health, medical systems, and private practice, I have supported individuals through crisis, grief, transition, and the long, slow work of becoming.
I am a Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor and Embodied Intimacy & Relationship Coach. My work is shaped by somatic, relational, spiritual, and earth-rooted approaches, and continues to evolve through practice, community, embodiment, and relationship with the living world.
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