HI, I'M MICHELLE JOY
Author, Speaker, Therapist, Coach, Founder & Philanthropist
Founder of Global Joy Institute
Michelle Joy is a coach, therapist, author, and visionary founder of The Global Joy Institute™ — a transformational movement that blends psychology, spirituality, energy, and deep self-knowing into a living, breathing methodology for personal evolution.
Through this integrative approach, Michelle helps people
remember who they truly are beneath the layers of conditioning, survival patterns, and adapted identity. Her signature work, Global Joy Academy™, Michelle guides individuals to release old protective roles, awaken to their essence, and return to a life rooted in clarity, intuition, authenticity, and soulful purpose.
At the heart of her work is an invitation into homecoming — a return to the self you were always meant to be.
Over 20 Years of Clinical & Coaching Expertise
Michelle has spent more than two decades helping people heal and grow — both within their relationships and within themselves. As a therapist and coach, she draws upon powerful tools such as the Enneagram, differentiation-based approaches, and developmental psychology to help individuals and couples create lives grounded in truth, resilience, connection, and meaning.
Her work bridges emotional healing with identity transformation. She understands the deep patterns that shape relationships, self-worth, and personal expression — and she guides people toward lives that feel aligned, empowered, and deeply their own.
Speaker & Teacher to Global Audiences
Michelle is a sought-after speaker and trainer whose teachings have reached audiences around the world.
She has been invited to speak and teach by organizations including Google, Facebook, and numerous professional associations. Her work has been featured through national workshops, summits, interviews, and podcasts.
Michelle is a gifted communicator — known for bringing depth, clarity, and compassion to even the most complex inner work. Whether she is speaking to a room of therapists, a group of leaders, or an online global audience, her message is always rooted in truth, self-awareness, and the possibility of transformation.
Transforming Lives Through Global Joy Giving
Because Michelle believes joy takes many forms, she founded Global Joy Giving, the philanthropic arm of her work. In developing countries, joy often looks like:
💧 Clean water
🍽️ Nourishing meals
📚 Education and school supplies
🌱 Opportunities to build a sustainable future.
Global Joy Giving has helped bring water to villages in Uganda, support small businesses, and provide meals, supplies, and opportunity to hundreds of children.
For Michelle, philanthropy is an extension of her mission: when one person rises, that rise can ripple across families, communities, and generations.
The Heart of Michelle’s Work
Michelle teaches that self-perception shapes every part of our lives — our relationships, our capacity for joy, our boundaries, our purpose, and our expression.
She believes true freedom comes from moving beyond the roles we learned to play, the defenses we developed to survive, and the identities we inherited — and into the authenticity, clarity, and wholeness that were always there beneath the surface.
Her work is a blend of psychology, spirituality, neuroscience, energy, and soul.
It is both practical and profound.
Structured and intuitive.
Grounded and expansive.
And above all:
It is a path back to yourself.