hey there
I'm Kim,
Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (CA + TX), founder of Curated Joy, a healing and wellness space for 40+ Black women.
Supporting Trauma Healing and Aftercare for Black Women
I specialize in helping Black women heal the effects of trauma, early attachment wounds, emotional neglect, chronic stress, and self-abandoning patterns so they can move through midlife with greater peace, self-trust, and emotional freedom.
Kimberly Gist Miller
My Areas of Specialty
You may be here because...
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You're exhausted from always being the strong one.
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You struggle to rest without guilt.
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You find yourself people-pleasing, over-functioning, or putting yourself last.
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Anxiety and stress have become your normal.
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You're navigating a major life transition and wondering who you are now.
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You're entering midlife or menopause and feeling disconnected from yourself.
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You're ready to heal old emotional wounds and create a different relationship with yourself.
I specialize in helping black women address:
Complex Trauma & Childhood Emotional Injuries
Healing the lasting impact of early painful experiences so you can feel safer, more at peace, and more in control of your life.
Attachment Wounds & Emotional Neglect
Releasing the effects of early emotional misattunement so you can build deeper self-worth, healthier boundaries, and more secure relationships.
Anxiety, Hyper-vigilance & Chronic Stress
Helping quiet the noise, regulate the nervous system, and move from survival mode to a place greater inner calm and ease.
People-Pleasing, Perfectionism & Over-functioning
Untangling the patterns that keep you putting everyone else first so you can reconnect with your needs, voice, and authenticity.
Boundaries, Self-Worth & Self-Abandonment
Supporting you in setting boundaries without guilt, honoring your worth, and unapologetically prioritizing yourself.
Grief, Life Transitions & Identity Shifts
Walking with you through grief and loss, change and the big transitional seasons so you can rediscover who you are and what matters most.
Menopause health and Women's Wellness
Navigating the emotional, physical, and identity changes of perimenopause and post-menopause with compassion, clarity and support.
Nervous System Dysregulation
Helping your body feel safe again so can break free from patterns of overwhelm, shutdown and emotional reactivity
fun facts:
I’m a proud plant mom and find caring for my houseplants incredibly therapeutic.
I love spending quiet evenings at home with my mini schnauzer, who’s a bundle of joy and personality.
Dance is one of my favorite forms of exercise—it brings me joy and keeps me energized.
I’m an early riser and cherish my morning routine, which includes meditation, journaling, and a good cup of herbal coffee.
I’m passionate about creating cozy, inviting spaces and believe that our environment plays a huge role in our well-being.
My Story
The work I do is sacred to me because it’s also personal.
I know what it means to live in high-functioning exhaustion—always giving, always striving, always managing. And I know what it means to begin the deep work of healing, to meet the younger parts of myself with compassion, and to create space for rest, joy, and truth to rise.
My life continues to be transformed by this work.
I’ve experienced firsthand how powerful it is to tend to emotional wounds and reconnect with the body’s wisdom. What’s on the other side? More joy. More liberation. A life that feels like mine. An ALIGNED life.
This is the gift I now offer others—the sacred invitation to come home to themselves.
About me
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