About Us
About Joselyn
A sacred woman who curates experiences for transformation, centered in holistic care and a womanist ethic.
My work lives at the intersections of counseling, art therapy, embodied practice, spirituality, education, and organizational wellbeing. As a Licensed Professional Counselor, Registered Art Therapist, yoga and meditation teacher, educator, and consultant, I create spaces that support reflection, healing, creativity, and meaningful transformation.
I love reminding people that wholeness belongs to them, regardless of what they have experienced or the season in which they find themselves. Wellness is not a destination or a performance. It is an ongoing practice of becoming more deeply connected to ourselves, our bodies, our communities, and what we understand to be sacred.
My own professional, spiritual, and personal formation has taught me the importance of creating the kinds of spaces I once struggled to find: spaces expansive enough for the complexity of our identities, experiences, beliefs, and ways of knowing. As a Black woman working across disciplines, I have often found myself integrating practices and perspectives that are too often separated. That integration continues to shape how I counsel, teach, facilitate, consult, and create.
I am deeply invested in this work because wellness is not simply something I teach. It is something I continue to practice, explore, embody, and make room for in my own life.
A little more about me: I am a plant mama, dog mom to Toni Free Joy forever to her sister Nyia, who passed in 2021. I also love nature, good food, beautiful spaces, and travel.
This is Womanist Work
Black women have profoundly shaped how I understand healing, care, resistance, and wholeness. Radical Black women who have shared their stories, scholarship, art, questions, and healing journeys gave me language and models for imagining a fuller life. Their work continues to inform my own.
My commitment to centering Black women began as an undergraduate studying women, gender, and African American studies, with particular attention to Black feminist thought. It continued through clinical research focused on depression among young Black women, theological formation and ministry within the womanist space of Spelman College, and my ongoing study of embodiment, spirituality, creativity, and womanist practices of wellbeing.
My own experiences seeking culturally responsive care further deepened my conviction that Black women deserve spaces where our identities, histories, bodies, spirituality, and ways of knowing are understood as integral to our wellbeing—not peripheral to it.
For me, a womanist ethic of care is communal and grounded in empathy, radical love, hope, healing, and the lived experiences of Black women. Creative Holistic Wellness carries this ethic across the experiences I create and the organizations and communities with whom I partner.
While many Creative Holistic Wellness offerings welcome broader communities, Our Womanist Wellness is a dedicated space for deeper reflection, embodied practice, spirituality, and experiences centered specifically on the wholeness of Black women.
My Brief Professional Bio
Rev. Joselyn Spence, LPC, ATR, RYT-500 is a counselor, art therapist, educator, consultant, and embodied-practice facilitator whose work explores the intersections of mental health, creativity, spirituality, leadership, and organizational wellbeing. She is the founder of Creative Holistic Wellness and Our Womanist Wellness and the developer of Sacred Imagination Model™, an embodied framework for spiritual meaning-making in art therapy.
Her professional experience spans national mental health and wellness leadership, counseling and art therapy, graduate education, organizational consulting, leadership development, spiritual care, yoga and meditation, and ministry. Across these settings, her work centers holistic wellbeing, culturally responsive care, meaningful learning, and the creation of spaces where individuals and communities can thrive.
Joselyn holds a Master of Divinity from Emory University’s Candler School of Theology, a Master of Science in Art Therapy and Counseling from Eastern Virginia Medical School, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Virginia. She is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Registered Art Therapist, and Registered Yoga Teacher.
Beyond her professional roles, Joselyn values being a good friend, thoughtful community member, and person committed to practicing the care she invites others to cultivate.