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Joyce Kuribayashi
M.S.

Joyce Kuribayashi is a licensed psychologist who works with adolescents and adults navigating challenges related to identity, relationships, mood, and adjustment. She blends culturally sensitive psychodynamic and cognitive-behavioral modalities to offer clients a supportive, reflective space for better understanding themselves and their patterns. Much of her work explores deep-rooted inner conflicts, insecurity, guilt, shame, and family-of-origin or childhood trauma that can manifest as self-doubt, career dissatisfaction, and difficulties with intimacy and relationships. 


Through therapy, Joyce helps clients examine how past experiences shape current struggles, fostering self-awareness and emotional flexibility. She also conducts psychological assessments to clarify diagnoses, guide treatment, and support clients in educational or professional settings. 


Joyce’s areas of specialization include depression, anxiety, trauma, immigrant stress, attachment, and identity development.

Areas of Specialization:

  • Depression and anxiety
  • Trauma and adjustment concerns
  • Immigrant and acculturative stress
  • Attachment and relational issues
  • Identity development
  • Neurological disorders and rehabilitation
  • ADHD and learning disorders
  • Personality pathology and assessment

Educational & Clinical Experience:

  • Doctoral Student in Clinical Psychology – University of Detroit Mercy
  • Practicum Student, Life Skills Village Rehabilitation
  • Student Therapist, University of Detroit Mercy Psychology Clinic
  • Psychometrician, Trinity Health Hospital Rehabilitation and Neuropsychology Behavioral Services
  • Psychotherapist & Testing Psychologist, Galvin Growth Group
  • Graduate Practicum Trainee, KaraLee & Associates, P.C.

Research Interests:

  • Psychodynamic diagnostics and personality pathology
  • Early memory and therapeutic alliance
  • Cross-cultural considerations in assessment and psychotherapy
  • Attachment and emotional processing

Select Publications:

  • Co-author, The Necessary Rapprochement of Negative Affectivity, Personality Disorder, and Depression (Current Psychiatry Reports, 2024)
  • Co-author, Does Blocking Facial Feedback Via Botulinum Toxin Injections Decrease Depression? (Emotion Review, 2019)

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