Kizzy Joseph

Kizzy Joseph is a marriage and family therapist-in-training currently obtaining her Master's degree in Marriage and Family Therapy at Syracuse University. She is also a mother, holistic wellness practitioner, and lover of music documentaries. As a therapist-in-training, Kizzy works with individuals, couples, and families, with a passion and emphasis on serving Black communities of all kinds. She views therapy as a radical healing space where marginalized folx can feel empowered and validated in spite of life’s messiness and structural oppression. Some of Kizzy’s clinical interests include adolescent mental health, co-parenting, parent readiness for those desiring to become a parent, teen pregnancy/parenting, spirituality, empowering Black women and femmes in romantic partnerships and lives post-breakup, and intergenerational cultural dissonance within Afro-Caribbean immigrant families. Her therapeutic approach is informed by narrative therapy, mindfulness, anti-oppression, healing justice, and an LGBTQIA+ affirming framework. Kizzy received her first Master’s from Columbia University in Psychology in Education with a Concentration in Spirituality and Mind-Body Practices. She also has intensive experience working in administration and programming within the youth mental wellness non-profit world.