About Joy

Joy Overstreet calls what she does “practical feng shui” because it combines eastern feng shui wisdom with western sensibilities. (No astrology, compass, red tassels or bamboo flutes). Her goal is for her clients to create environments that uniquely represent their best selves.

She specializes in working with color and art to balance and enliven the space, rearranging and repurposing furnishings, and creating a calmer simpler environment.

Before becoming a feng shui and color consultant Joy was a health educator (she has a masters degree in public health from the University of California, Berkeley). She believes that health is linked to the environment where people spend the most time – their homes and their workplaces. Feng shui offers easy and rewarding tools for creating nurturing environments. Joyful spaces, in other words.

She completed her feng shui certification training in 2001 with Terah Kathryn Collins at the Western School of Feng Shui in San Diego. She has also studied with Holly Tashian of Nashville Essential Feng Shui. She studied color with Personal Style Counselors in Oakland CA.

Joy has been a member of Toastmasters since 2002 and is a Distinguished Toastmaster - the highest award level. She started Progressive Voices Toastmasters, the club she currently belongs to. Her talks and classes about feng shui are clear, entertaining and suitable for a variety of groups.

She has taught classes at Clark College in Vancouver WA, at Lizzabeth A in Camas, and for private client groups. Until the newspaper downsized most of their columnists she wrote a monthly “Designer’s Eye” column on Feng Shui for The Columbian.

She has long been active in community affairs and in 2007 was honored as a "Woman of Achievement" by Clark College and the YWCA.  

Email her for her free “Top 15 Tips for De-Cluttering for Good.”