MEET THE TEAM
Intentional Healing Empowerment Center, LLC provides compassionate and evidence-based counseling, mental health and therapeutic services for children and families, adolescents, and adults.
Joyre Montgomery,, MSSW, LCSW, Owner
I am passionate about helping you heal, grow in self-understanding, and reconnect with who you are beyond life’s difficult experiences. Whether you are navigating anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, family conflict, parent-child disconnect, self-worth, postpartum concerns, relationship challenges, healthy boundaries, personal growth, or major life transitions, my goal is to create a space where you feel supported, understood, and empowered throughout your healing journey.
I am especially passionate about supporting those who often feel misunderstood, struggle within unhealthy or manipulative relationships, or are trying to break free from painful relational patterns, particularly within family relationships, friendships, or romantic relationships with the people they expected to love and support them most.
My desire is to help you recognize your self-worth, build healthier patterns, and focus on what is within your control as you move toward healing and growth. I believe in meeting you where you are in your mental health journey while creating a space where you feel seen, supported, and empowered.
Together, we will work toward identifying what healing and growth look like for you while building the tools and confidence needed to move forward. I am committed to showing up for you throughout this process while helping you learn how to show up for yourself with compassion, strength, and intention.
Whenever you are ready to begin your healing journey, I will be here.
Speciality Areas: Self Esteem & Confidence Issues, Healthy Boundary Setting, Anxiety, Depression, Grief and Trauma,
I am also trained in Brain Spotting & EMDR to deepen the healing process of trauma or difficult situations.
Shavon Silvers,, LPC-MHSP,NCC CCMHC
Shavon is a contracted counselor for IHEC. Shavon is a Licensed Professional Counselor with a designation as a Mental Health Service Provider. Shavon is also a Nationally Certified Counselor with a specialty as a Certified Clinical Mental Health Counselor.
Shavon has been a counselor since 2018 with several years of experience working with adolescents and parents in an inpatient setting after crisis situations. Her areas of clinical practice include depression, anxiety, mood disorders, schizophrenia, personality disorders, self-esteem, substance abuse, adjustment (life, career, illness) issues, relationship and familial problems, and day to day issues. Shavon works with individuals, families, and couples.
She uses an eclectic style of therapy with a main focus on Choice Theory/ Reality Therapy. Shavon likes to create a safe space in counseling for clients to be REAL and have REAL conversations. Whether you, your child, or partner/spouse/family need a place to come talk, cry, or just sit in the silence of the day with someone who will listen, this is the space for you.
Speciality Areas: Depression, Anxiety, Substance Abuse, Psychosis, Personality Disorders & Life Adjustments
Jaclyn Beckler, LCSW, CCTP, C-DBT
Kia Ruffin,MSSW, EdD
Jaclyn is passionate about advocacy and promoting self-efficacy. She strives to connect with clients in a safe therapeutic alliance to assist with psychosocial skills and practical tools for empowerment and growth. Jaclyn knows the importance of meeting clients at their level and helping them increase their tolerance thresholds through psycho-education, therapeutic interventions, skills practice, mind-body connection, and self-awareness.
Jaclyn’s professional experience includes serving children, adolescents, adults, and families in the settings of community outreach, outpatient services, foster care, adoption, and mental health/addiction treatment centers. Jaclyn specializes in trauma-related issues, nervous system regulation, attachment, family conflict resolution, depression, anxiety/panic, anger/stress management, interpersonal violence, addiction/substance abuse, crisis/emergency management, resolving maladaptive coping, behavior modification, and women’s issues.
Jaclyn is a Certified Clinical Trauma Professional with additional certifications in Dialectical Behavior Therapy, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Parent-Child Interaction Therapy, and Safe and Sound Protocol. She also utilizes Motivational Interviewing, Sensory Motor Arousal Regulation, Trust-Based Relational Interventions, Play Therapies, Bi-Lateral Stimulation, Art Therapies, and Somatic Therapies with her services.
Specialty areas: Complex Trauma, Relational Trauma, Interpersonal Issues, Foster Care, Adoption, Women’s Issues, Nervous System Regulation, Chronic Pain, Addiction/Substance Abuse, Self-Esteem, Interpersonal Communication, Goal Setting/Goal Attainment, and Certified in DBT, TF-CBT, PCIT, and Safe and Sound Protocol.
Kia Ruffin holds a Master of Science in Social Work from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville and a Doctorate in Education from Trevecca Nazarene University. She has over 10 years of experience supporting adults in outpatient and community-based mental health settings.
Kia specializes in trauma-informed care for high-functioning women navigating burnout, anxiety, and life transitions. She uses Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and mindfulness-based approaches to help clients better understand their thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, while building practical tools for lasting change.
Kia works with individuals who are often “used to being strong for others” and are ready to prioritize their own healing. Together, you will explore past experiences, navigate current challenges, and create a more balanced, grounded, and fulfilling life.
Her background includes in-home family counseling, school-based therapy, group therapy, anger management, and behavior modification. She also serves as a mental health educator, working to reduce stigma and increase awareness in the community.
Kia believes that mental wellness is the foundation for a fulfilling life. Her approach is supportive, empowering, and rooted in helping you move from simply getting through each day to truly healing, growing, and living with intention.
Speciality Areas: Burnout and emotional exhaustion, High-functioning anxiety, self identity, purpose, and self-worth, trauma (especially relational/community-based), family conflict, depression, boundary setting and overextension
