About The Joy Center
At The Joy Center, we are dedicated to helping individuals, couples, and families find healing, growth, and restoration. Through compassionate therapy and integrative approaches, we work to regulate the nervous system, heal trauma, and foster psychological, emotional and spiritual well-being. Our focus is on creating a safe, supportive space where you can experience the joy of transformation and lasting change.
Services We Provide
Individual Therapy
Couples Therapy
Pastoral Counseling
Coaching
Focused on addressing trauma, anxiety, depression, and other emotional challenges to facilitate healing and resilience.
Designed to help couples navigate relational challenges, strengthen communication, and build lasting emotional connections.
Deepen your spiritual connection by integrating faith into the exploration of your story and healing process.
Life coaching tailored to help you identify goals, overcome obstacles, and thrive, whether it's in your personal life, career, or relationships.
Our Staff
Michele Hardy
MS, LPC, CCTP-II
Michele has a MS in Professional Counseling and additional certification in the treatment of Complex PTSD. Michele is passionate about trauma recovery and holistic healing. She has extensive training in a variety of trauma treatment modalities. She is skilled in Brainspotting, Parts Work ( IFS) T.R.I.P, and Energy Psychology techniques such as HeartMath. Michele believes in the innate resilience of the human body and is dedicated to helping clients find hope and transformation. She brings a nurturing personalized approach to every session. Michele has been married for more than 30 years, is a mom to six, and enjoys spending time outdoors.
David Van Horn
MA, LPC
David is both a Licensed Professional Counselor and an ordained pastor, with over 30 years of experience in Christian ministry and counseling. His passion lies in helping individuals and couples build strong, joyful foundations, grounded in faith and emotional resilience. He specializes in working with couples to strengthen marriages and navigate relational challenges. David's personal recovery journey informs his compassionate approach, and he is dedicated to helping his clients experience meaningful change.
Tammie Payne
MA, Pastoral Counseling and Life Transformation
Tammie has an MA in Pastoral Counseling and Life Transformation, with a focus on holistic mind, body, and spirit work. She brings her experience in teaching, discipleship, and inner-healing prayer to her practice, helping clients move through challenging life circumstances with hope. Tammie’s personal journey of transformation, both in singleness and marriage, fuels her passion for helping others experience God's design for their lives. She is also a lover of animals, cooking, and writing.
Coming to terms with the trauma of my past was a daunting task. The Joy Center Inc, helped me to make sense of my story and to overcome the things that seemed insurmountable.
Lynn
Therapeutic Modalities We Use
Our therapists are trained in a variety of integrative therapeutic approaches to best support your healing journey.
Brainspotting
A powerful trauma therapy that accesses the limbic and subcortical brain, deeply rooted emotional pain, helping clients process and resolve trauma without re-traumatization.
Internal Family Systems (IFS)/Parts Work
A compassionate approach to addressing different parts of yourself, helping you achieve inner balance and healing.
Attachment Therapy
Focusing on building secure emotional connections and healing attachment insecurites formed in the developmental process. Childhood attachment insecurities can influence adult relationships as well.
Somatic-Informed Therapy
Bottom-up processing techniques that are nervous sytem informed and somatic focused infuse all of the trauma work at the center.
Narrative Therapy
Helping you reframe your story to see your life experiences in an empowered and healing light. Story work can help reveal a deeper compassion for self.
Walk & Talk Therapy
Harnessing the support of the outdoors and helping you reframe your story to see your life experiences in an empowered and healing light.
Toward Wholeness
Our mission is to provide trauma-informed therapy that fosters healing and hope. We believe in the power of relational connection to support individuals on their journey toward resilience and wholeness. Our mission is to create a safe, nurturing environment where clients can find peace, harmony, and balance, guided by expert care and therapeutic excellence.