Joy Tochi Brinkmann

Joy integrates into her counseling practice her many years of compassionately working in hospitals as an ICU-RN and patient-care advocate. Her background has prepared her in providing medication counseling and insight in general medical illnesses geared towards restoring wholeness, wellness, and wellbeing (Body, Mind, and Spirit). 

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Joy seeks to rebuild, establish, and transform her clients by using Christ-Centered Counseling and integrative counseling techniques, such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Person-Centered, Solution Focused Therapy, and Narrative / Story Telling. She also has completed basic training in Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR) therapy. 

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She inspires to establish a trusting therapeutic relationship for maximizing total healing, rebuilding lives, and empowering others in re-writing their life stories and family history. Joy's goal is to respectfully serve as a guiding-light as you realize your unique strengths for your healthiest self and complete freedom. 

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Education and Background

Joy is a Licensed Professional Counselor-Associate in the state of Texas under the supervision of C. Huston McComb, Jr., LPC-S. She received her Masters in Biblical Counseling from Dallas Theological Seminary.

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Joy is also a Licensed Registered Nurse (ICU-RN) in the state of Texas, currently working in the community as a Critical-Need Pediatric RN. She works with chronic illness, and is well experienced in Psychiatric hospital settings and Intensive Outpatient Programming, both with group and individual environments. Joy holds a degree in Leadership, was a High School educator for 9th and 10th grade, and she was also a banker.