Ministry Experience:
Joy has utilized stories for teaching and
healing since first becoming a puppeteer at the age of 13. Then over the years,
she trained teams and lead various puppetry ministries doing street witnessing
and longer, full performances. She has served in various women’s ministries with
MOPS as a small group leader in California, and as a Publicity leader in Florida. She homeschooled her two boys for ten years and then entered the public school
system where she taught for nine years.
Joy was also a teacher/missionary in Indonesia
for one year and has taught summer school in China. She is passionate about quality
food available to all and at one point ran 3 different food ministries. She delights in nursery duty and can brew a strong after-church latte.
Joy has also designed a
program to meet the unmet needs of women suffering from bipolar disorder and
schizophrenia, and provided lay counseling for those individuals at the request
of her pastor. She writes poetry, community magazine articles, and children’s
stories, with one published in Clubhouse Jr. Magazine, distributed by Focus on
the Family.
Counseling Approach:
Joy knows that our life stories do not always have the fairytale endings that we
hoped for, but also that we are not mere puppets. We are actually active agents in pursuit of
meaningful moments and positive outcomes.
Her approach as a counselor is to help
clients identify their strengths and collaborate with them to help them find solutions
to challenges in their story. She strives to provide a counseling relationship in
which one can feel safe, heard, and supported as they explore or process
whatever they choose. She offers an integrative approach to therapy with a focus on
strengths in individuals and relationships as a foundation of growth.
The theoretical
foundations that inform her counseling include Person Centered Therapy,
Narrative Therapy, and Trauma Informed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. She has a
great passion for empowering those suffering from chronic mental health
disorders such as BIPOLAR DISORDER. She also holds experience with PARENTING,
BLENDED FAMILIES, DEPRESSION, ANXIETY, ADDICTIONS, LIFE TRANSITIONS, PTSD, ABUSE
and TRAUMA. She is being trained in EMDR and SANDTRAY THERAPY.
Click HERE for Joy's Intake Packet.