What Life Coaching Is (and Isn't): A Guide for Survivors of Trauma or Abuse
A clear, compassionate guide to how trauma-informed life coaching can support survivors alongside therapy and care teams.
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Guidance for Life's Hardest Chapters — From Someone Who's Led the Systems That Help People Heal
Linda Joyce Coaching offers warm, practical life and wellness coaching for clients seeking support, clarity, resilience, and personal empowerment after a difficult chapter.
MBA
RN
CCM
Nearly 30 years in healthcare leadership
Coaching focus
One-on-one life coaching for transitions, resilience, leadership, and moving forward with care.
About Linda
A life coach shaped by healthcare leadership, nursing, and human-services systems.
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Linda Joyce is a Detroit-based healthcare executive, registered nurse, and board-certified case manager (CCM) with nearly 30 years of experience building and leading care systems for people navigating some of life's hardest circumstances.
As President & CEO of a $32M nonprofit healthcare and human-services organization, she has overseen behavioral health programs, Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics, addiction services, and housing and wraparound support for thousands of underserved residents.
Her leadership education includes executive coach training through the University of Michigan School of Medicine, a Harvard Business School certificate in Strategic Nonprofit Leadership, and a Northwestern University Kellogg School of Business certificate specializing in Corporate Board Development for Women.
From the blog
Reading for anyone weighing their next step.
Life coaching services
Coaching for resilience, recovery-minded growth, and values-based leadership.
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Life & Resilience Coaching
Support for life transitions, confidence, personal empowerment, and steadier next steps.
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trauma-informed life coach, survivor support coach, abuse recovery coach
Trauma-Informed Life Coaching
Coaching support for people who have experienced trauma or abuse, offered alongside clinical care when needed.
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Executive & Leadership Coaching
Guidance for professionals, nonprofit leaders, healthcare leaders, and women carrying complex responsibility.
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Writing rooted in community, courage, and care.
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The Community We Lost: Remembering For Our Future
By Linda Joyce — Edited by Elizabeth Ann Atkins
The Community We Lost is a heartfelt journey through time, memory, and meaning—told through the eyes of someone who grew up in 1970s Detroit, when neighborhoods felt like family and the streetlights signaled more than just the end of playtime. Blending personal storytelling with cultural commentary, this powerful account of vignettes captures the warmth and vibrancy of a time when neighbors looked out for one another, children played freely in the streets, and the entire block came together to support families in need. Through vivid recollections of rent parties, jump rope battles, backyard barbecues, and front porch wisdom, the author paints a portrait of what true community once looked like—and why it mattered. The book also examines the forces that unraveled these close-knit bonds: economic shifts, systemic inequality, the drug epidemic, and the rise of technology that drew people indoors. In its final chapters, the book issues a stirring call to action—for individuals, nonprofits, businesses, governments, and philanthropists—to help reimagine and rebuild a new kind of community rooted in care, shared responsibility, and collective well-being.
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Coming Soon
The Enemy for Good
Rising from the Darkness of Covert Abuse
By Linda Joyce
Linda Joyce's second book is forthcoming. Publication and ordering details will be shared when available.
How her writing informs her coaching
Linda's belief in community, care systems, and human dignity runs through every coaching relationship. Her writing on neighborly support and collective well-being informs how she helps clients rebuild connection, resilience, and purpose in their own lives.
Clarity before action
Sessions are designed to help you name what matters, identify what is within reach, and move forward with steady support.
Support without clinical claims
Sessions are designed to help you name what matters, identify what is within reach, and move forward with steady support.
Practical next steps
Sessions are designed to help you name what matters, identify what is within reach, and move forward with steady support.
Life coaching is not therapy and is not a substitute for medical or mental health treatment.
Ready to talk through your next chapter?
A consultation is a calm place to ask questions, share what you are looking for, and decide whether one-on-one life coaching is a fit.