Resonate Joy
Making Mental Health Care Accessible Through Tomorrow's Therapists
Growing Therapists, Healing Communities
Traditionally, mental health care has been limited to those with time, money, connections, and insurance. We intend to see a different reality come true. Resonate Joy funds training for emerging therapists while providing affordable, quality care to the communities who need it most. Since 2021, we’ve supported over 10 clinical residents, funded 5,000+ therapy sessions, and partnered with local and global organizations to bring healing to underserved communities—one person at a time.
Training & outreach program goals
We believe mental health services should be accessible to everyone, regardless of their background, resources, or financial situation. We aim to break down these barriers by offering reduced fee sessions through our dedicated Clinical Residency Program.
Affordability cannot be an inhibitor in healing. Our reduced fee pricing is specifically designed for Illinois Residents who do not have medical insurance and require financial assistance to access mental health services. Our goal is to provide sustainable and accessible support that meets unique needs.
To inquire about reduced fee details and find the right assistance for your financial situation, please contact us. We encourage you to reach out, as mental wellness should be a priority for all, regardless of status or background. For those with medical insurance or other resources to afford our services, please refer to our Insurance & Payment page for non-reduced pricing options.
Collaboration that amplifies women's voices
Global Women’s Narrative Project (GWNP) is a key partner, enabling us to increase women’s wellbeing through storytelling all around the world. The soon to launch online archive will serve as a connection point where people can interact with the women’s individual experiences. Our office trains the interviewers in trauma-informed approaches, as well as being part of teams that travel to collect narratives.
Training therapists & affordable services
Since 2018, our Clinical Residency has trained over 30 mental health therapists and is considered one of the leading placements for advanced training in counseling. Through our program, we are able to offer reduced fee services to the community. Here is Xavier’s reflection on the work we do as one of our graduated clinical residents.
Clinical Residents: The Heart of Our Mission
Making Mental Health Care a Reality for All
There is an incredible lack of providers available to meet the overwhelming need. We need new providers, and we need them to be representative of the people they serve. Diversity of age, race, gender, sexuality, ability – mental health providers need to represent the continuum of human expression. We are committed to training providers who showcase the beauty of diversity.
Where Compassion Meets Professional Growth
Spheres of influence is how we think about individuals. If any person increases their wellbeing, they impact their system around them. So we believe that individual impact is actually collective impact. Individuals can be the clients coming for support themselves, or the counselors connecting with those individuals. Both create a rippling impact of wellness from the investment in individuals.
How Optimum Joy Fuels Our Mission
Optimum Joy is intended to be run as a healthy business, both caring for our employees and generating profit. With those profits, we cultivate the ability to do good through Resonate Joy. Resonate means “to be filled with a deep, full, reverberation,” like how sound starts in one place and reverberates outward. It is our goal that emotional health would reach outward from our organization and be felt in a deep way by people impacted.
The mission
Our goal is two-fold: access to quality care and development of diverse clinicians.
Your Gift Makes Healing Possible
Your support directly funds therapy sessions, clinical supervision, and training for emerging therapists. Every $50 funds one therapy session that changes a life. $250 provides a week of clinical supervision that shapes a therapist’s career. Your generosity ripples outward through our community.
Helping Young People Pursue A Career
We need more therapists generally because of the mental health provider shortage, but we also need those incoming therapists to represent a wide variety of people. Helping young people understand and navigate the requirements to become therapists is a passion of ours. Pamela Larkin shares her insights and excitement in how we are doing that.
Our Partnering Non-Profits
Oxford Initiative for Global Ethics & Human Rights: Global Women's Narrative Project
Training interviewers and collecting women’s narratives globally around 6 themes:
- War & Peace
- Religion
- Health
- Identity
- Gendered Violence
- Life’s Work
GRIP Outreach For Youth
We offer training to staff and mental health services to youth & their families in tandem with GRIP’s life-on-life mentoring relationships.
Naomi's House
In the efforts to restore what has been lost in human trafficking, we join Naomi’s House by providing therapists who can offer healing through counseling.
Be Part of Something Meaningful
Whether you donate, share our story, or partner with us—you’re helping create a world where healing is possible for everyone.
