Behavioral health
Clinical perspective, operational leadership, staff realities, public funding, accountability and the complexity of systems serving real people.
About Joyce
I pay attention to what a system asks people to do in real life.
I'm a licensed clinical social worker, behavioral health leader, trainer and self-taught AI builder. My work sits where people, complicated systems and technology decisions meet.
The through line
People, systems and work that has to hold up outside the training room.
I've spent more than 18 years as a therapist and behavioral health leader. That's included direct care, training, complex programs, operational leadership and managing large state-funded behavioral health contracts.
That work teaches you to look past whether an idea sounds good. You ask what information people will actually have, where the process is likely to break, what still needs review, and whether it works with the staffing and time people really have.
I learned AI outside a traditional tech path, mostly in small pockets of time around full-time work, building a business and raising four boys. I build with the tools myself, so I know what they do well, where they make things harder, and what changes once they have the right context.
How the pieces connect
Each role taught me something the next one needed.
Same person, four roles
- 1
Therapist
learned how people actually change
- 2
Trainer
turned big ideas into practice
- 3
Behavioral health leader
ran the systems behind the care
- 4
Self-taught AI builder
built the tools to test the ideas
What I bring
Professional judgment and builder experience in the same room.
Most AI conversations have one or the other. Leaders who understand the work but haven't used the tools, or builders who know the tools but not the setting.
Training and translation
Turning complicated ideas into a process people can understand, try, review and use in their own work.
Building with AI
Creating context systems, workflows, tools, training and products while keeping a person responsible for the final decision.
Why Wild Growth Co. now
These parts of my work have been connected for a long time.
Wild Growth Co. started with work on behavior, regulation and making change possible in real life. I'm carrying that forward as I focus on behavioral health, AI, professional training and the systems experts can build from what they already know.
Cycle Breaker Society stays open for current members. Everything new here is about speaking, consulting, professional resources and The Self-Taught AI Lab.
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