Joyce Dillon, rn, mn, bcc

**** ********** *** #* **********, ky 40205

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Health and Wellness Coach, Emotional Wellbeing & Stress Management

Inspiring and empowering health and wellness nurse, coach, and consultant with a deep commitment to facilitating positive behavior changes that measurably improve healthcare outcomes. Collaboratively engages with individuals, organizations, physicians and healthcare teams. Educates and empowers clients to improve their physicals and mental wellbeing and live healthier lives. Demonstrates excellent communication, problem solving, coaching, and motivational skills along with a broad-based knowledge of integrative wellness modalities, practices and sustainable behavior changing processes. Highlights include:

●Health & Wellness Coach

●Mindfulness and Stress Reduction

●Life-Work Balance

●Clinical Assessment Tools

●Wellness Retreats

●Life Purpose Programs

●Transition, Change Coach

●Loss, Grief and Trauma Prevention

●Healthy Aging

Experience

Joyce Dillon, Inc., Atlanta, GA 2010 - Present

Leading-edge health and wellness, empowerment training company

Founder and CEO

Provides motivational, transformational and measurable health and wellness coaching including, assessment, meditation, coaching and follow-up plans. Creates results that make a meaningful difference in clients' health and wellbeing.

●Conducts assessments, identifies factors contributing to disease, and recommends wellness strategies.

●Facilitates stress reduction, increased life balance and increased sense of purpose and fulfillment to enhance physical, emotional and psychological wellbeing.

●Empowers clients to make healthy choices that improve health, happiness, relationships and productivity.

●Guides clients through a process to gain clarity of purpose and explore ways to create a more meaningful life and fulfilling work life.

●Partners with clients to set attainable goals and identify resources and strategies for success. Supports accountability through consistent follow up and results-oriented coaching.

●Designs, coordinates and facilitates wellness retreats and travel programs for groups of 12 -25 people. As a result, participants’ awareness of potential health issues is increased and their motivation to adopt new, healthy practices that offer sustainable changes to increase health and wellbeing is jumpstarted.

Interim Health Care, Atlanta, GA 2014-2018

Assessment, evaluation, medication and case management of adult and geriatric mental health clients

Nurse Consultant

Collaborates with physicians, health team members and family to assess, develop, implement and monitor individual care to assure best possible outcomes.

●Conducts comprehensive clinical assessments to identify goals, interventions and treatment plans. As a result, hospital visits and stays for people with chronic physical and mental health issues are reduced and patient outcomes are improved.

●Partners with family members and facility staff to better assess key factors of overall health and wellness and create treatment plans to measurably improve patient experience and outcomes.

●Provides education, motivation and follow up for patients that results in greater understanding of health issues and consequences, improved compliance and a feeling of being guided and supported.

Healthy Living & Balance Integrative Wellness Center, Atlanta, GA 1996 - 2010

Innovative health coaching and wellness company

Founder, Wellness Consultant

Provided coaching, stress reduction and healthy lifestyle programs and products that promote healthy living and balanced lifestyles.

●Conducted clinical assessments for critically ill, long-term clients to help manage their anxiety or depression and improve their ability to successfully manage stress.

●Taught meditation, relaxation and other stress reduction techniques to individuals and groups.

●Designs and facilitated comprehensive workshops to help clients understand the natural physical and psychological and spiritual issues of change and transition. As a result, participants gained insight to a variety of treatment options including nutritional support, exercise, mind-body practices and spiritual aspects of their lives.

●Sought after speaker on Purpose, Life Transition, Mind-Body, Healthy Aging, and Mindset

Georgia Perimeter School of Nursing, Atlanta, GA 2009 - 2011

Adjunct Instructor

Clinical Supervision of 'Psychiatric/Mental Health Concepts of Nursing' course to psychiatric nursing students.

●Mentored and supervised students on site in a psychiatric facility.

●Assessed, monitored, reviewed and provided meaningful feedback to help students meet course requirements.

Created and delivered teaching materials that taught students a holistic perspective on mental health to improve their ability to provide sound and holistic patient care.

Developed and delivered treatment modalities, staff in-service, daily coping skills groups to help promote recovery and discharge community support.

Education and Certification

A.N.D., University of Kentucky, Louisville, KY

B.S.N., Medical College of Georgia, Athens, GA

M.N., Emory University, Adult Mental Health, Consultation & Education Atlanta, GA

Certifications:

●Board Certified Coach-BCC

●Health & Wellness Coach-The Circle of Life Training Certification

●The Circle of Life Health /Wellness Coaching - Facilitator of Training

●Prepare for Surgery: Heal Faster Program

Additional Training Highlights:

●Mind-Body Mindfulness for Coaching

●Dr. Joe Dispenza - Neuroscience Principles to Boost Creativity, and Human Potential

●Advanced Mind-Body Medicine Professional Training

●The Institute of Life Coach Training

●Harvard Mind/Body Medicine Institute

●The Four Winds Energy Medicine Training Program

●Creativity and the Brain

●Loss and Grief Retreat Training

●Life Purpose Training

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