About Joyce
Joyce Kinyua is a Board Certified Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with a Master’s of Science in Nursing, a Bachelor of Science in Nursing, and a Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry, bringing a rich blend of clinical expertise and scientific insight to mental health care. Her journey began as a psychiatric technician for seven years in group home settings, caring for individuals with chronic mental health challenges and intellectual disabilities. She later spent two years in community mental health, managing complex treatment plans involving 5–9 psychotropics, often in 10–15 minute visits that left little room to educate patients on their illness, medications, or coping skills. This experience, coupled with witnessing untreated mental health issues and addiction stigma in her immigrant community—leading to devastating outcomes like suicide and organ failure—ignited her passion for innovative care through Precision and Integrative Psychiatry.
About My Journey
As a young immigrant woman, Joyce navigated a cultural tug-of-war, balancing traditional family expectations with an individualistic society. She carried adult responsibilities, advocating for parents and siblings in unfamiliar systems, and learned to embrace her accent and African name. Finding mentors and safe spaces where she didn’t have to shrink herself, she discovered her voice in a culture expecting silence, grappling with invisibility as one of the few people of color in large classes. This resilience shaped her ability to hold space for complexity and empathy, particularly for those living between cultures and identities. Outside medicine, she finds joy in cooking wholesome meals, hiking, dancing, park walks, reading, swimming, traveling, caring for plants, and spending time with family and friends, grounding her holistic approach. Targeting the root cause and finding the why beyond symptoms brings balance by correcting the foundation.