If you have reached a time in your life where you are seeking deeper meaning, self-acceptance, and the confidence to assert yourself, Joyce is here to highlight your strengths and build a therapeutic relationship that gives you space to heal and grow. Believing that you are the expert of your own experience, she uses her training to support you in making sense of and working through whatever brings you to therapy. She also has an array of tools she can share that will help you to access your best self. 

Joyce is a licensed clinical social worker with nine years of experience in the field. She has her master's in social work from the University of Chicago and an additional certification in trauma-informed care. Joyce began her career working with families on Chicago's South Side providing school-based mental health support for young people ages three to twenty-one before transitioning to virtual therapy full-time and domestic violence prevention work. Leading with acceptance and commitment therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy, Joyce tailors her approach to fit each client's unique needs and enjoys infusing brain science and clinical research into her sessions to help clients better understand their experiences. With couples, she uses Gottman Method Couples Therapy's evidence-based techniques for growing stable, meaningful, and loving partnerships. Joyce operates through a social justice lens that emphasizes community and acknowledges the structures that create real barriers in people's lives, helping clients to draw from their strengths, set boundaries that serve them, and create change for themselves.