I work with women of all backgrounds, ages, and experiences to support them on their path for empowerment through embodiment & connection to sacred living.

Joy Herbst is a certified family nurse practitioner, certified coach, movement and meditation teacher, and a mother in long term recovery. She became interested in integrative health and functional medicine while trying to improve her own health and that of her sons. Joy promotes holistic methods that enhance the body’s natural healing abilities. She helps women achieve overall health through private coaching, movement practices, and gatherings focused on the Sacred Feminine.

Joy holds certifications as a family nurse practitioner, a coaching specialist in "Gray Area Drinking," and as an Ayurveda lifestyle and Yoga of Recovery counselor. She is also a certified yoga teacher with 500 hours of training and has been dancing throughout her life. Her healthcare career began in 1998 as a medical assistant in a women’s clinic, following an alcohol-related injury that ended her dance career. She became a Registered Nurse in 2002, specializing in perinatal services, and earned her Master’s Degree in Nursing, gaining board certification as a nurse practitioner in 2008.

Her experience includes adult internal medicine, reproductive endocrinology, and OB/GYN, and she worked at Yale New Haven Hospital before opening her own practice in 2015. Joy’s work is influenced by her studies in Ayurveda, Yoga of Recovery, Heart-Based Meditation, mental health nutrition, and functional medicine, as well as her commitment and practices honoring the Sacred Feminine. She embarked upon the Priestess path 5 years ago, as an ardent advocate of women’s mysteries, their sacred rites, and Divine feminism.