Joyce Nyirenda, LCMHC

Joyce Nyirenda is a licensed mental health professional based in North Carolina with 14 years of clinical experience. She holds an LCMHC, which stands for Licensed Clinical Mental Health Counselor, and a Doctorate in Behavioral Health (DBH) earned May 6, 2024. Her training and experience support work with stress, anxiety, depression, parenting concerns, self-esteem and motivation, relationship difficulties, trauma and abuse, grief, anger, ADHD, and coping with life changes. She also addresses aging and geriatric issues, blended family dynamics, chronic pain and illness, co-morbidity, communication problems, disaster-related coping, divorce and separation, guilt and shame, immigration matters, life purpose questions, veteran and armed forces issues, multicultural concerns, obsessive-compulsive patterns, post-traumatic stress, and social anxiety and phobia.

Joyce combines evidence-informed methods with a person-centered stance that recognizes each individual as the expert of their own story. Her clinical approaches include Client-Centered Therapy, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Existential Therapy, Motivational Interviewing, Solution-Focused Therapy, and Trauma-Focused Therapy. She integrates a spiritual perspective and offers Bible-based Christian elements when appropriate for clients who find that framework helpful. Her recent doctoral studies deepened her understanding of how medical and behavioral health conditions interact and inform holistic care, and she intends to apply that knowledge in intentional, goal-oriented work with those she supports.

Joyce provides services in English and Chichewa and frames therapy as a collaborative process that seeks to empower people to build on their strengths, develop practical coping strategies, and move toward more fulfilling, balanced lives.