Meet Dr. Kimberly
My Vision
My vision is healing beyond survival for Black and Brown women, and for anyone whose body and spirit have been asked to carry more than they've been offered in return. I believe that reconnection, restoration, and intentional care are not luxuries. They are the conditions under which people actually thrive. This work exists to help create those conditions for individuals navigating midlife and for organizations ready to build cultures of genuine care.
My Mission
My mission is to support individuals and organizations in cultivating sustainable wellbeing through embodied movement, mindful practice, and evidence-informed strategy, centering Black and Brown women, and holding the full weight of physical, mental, and emotional health in every room I enter.
Core Values
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Centering: We do not serve Black and Brown women as a niche or an afterthought. Their health, their bodies, and their lives are the reason this work exists, and that means holding the full context of their lived experience, including the systemic conditions that shape their health, in everything we do.
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Embodiment: We honor the body as a source of wisdom, and we recognize that reconnecting to it is often its own form of healing.
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Intentionality: We design care thoughtfully, not generically because generic wellness was never built for the people we serve.
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Liberation: Wellness should expand what feels possible, supporting agency, autonomy, and the freedom to inhabit your own life fully.
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Sustainability: We prioritize practices and strategies that can be maintained over time because care that cannot be sustained is care that will not hold.
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Integration: We bridge science, embodiment, and care because the most complete path to wellbeing draws from all three, and asks none of them to stand alone.
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Care with Accountability: We value reflection, learning, and integrity, and we believe that care done well requires the courage to examine what is and is not working, and to change course when it must.
Founder, Wellness Practitioner & Consultant, Health Scientist & Program Evaluator
I have spent 24 years learning where Black and Brown women carry their stress, their grief, and their unmet needs. I have spent 18 years learning how movement, sound, and intentional care can help release them. Born and raised in Decatur, Georgia, I am a Lead Health Scientist with more than two decades of federal government experience in chronic disease prevention, diabetes management, and health promotion.
My professional work has centered on the populations most often left out of mainstream wellness: the research shows what the data has always shown, that Black and Brown women carry a disproportionate burden of chronic disease, chronic stress, and lifelong barriers to care designed with them in mind. That knowledge has never stayed abstract for me. It became the foundation of everything I do now.
My wellness path began in 2004, when yoga gave me something the public health literature pointed toward but rarely delivered: a direct, embodied way home to the body. What began as movement became practice, then calling. Over the years I deepened into trauma-informed yoga, sound and vibrational healing, and certification as a Sound and Vibrational Therapy Practitioner. I am currently completing my comprehensive Classical Pilates teacher training; a discipline whose precision and clinical depth I find profoundly aligned with the work of midlife restoration.
My educational and professional background spans psychology, social work, and public health. I have designed programs, measured their outcomes, and mentored graduate students in human services, public health, and social work. I have worked inside federal and state government, nonprofit organizations, and academic settings. I understand, from the inside, both what the evidence requires and what the body needs, and I have learned that sustainable wellbeing demands both.
Through Kymistri Wellness®, I bring these worlds together. I work with individuals navigating the physical and emotional terrain of midlife, and with organizations ready to build cultures of care that actually hold. This work is for Black and Brown women first. It is also for anyone who has been searching for a wellness practice that takes their full humanity seriously.
