Joy Daves

Joy Daves, BS, LMT, MMP, MLD-C

Southern Therapeutic Massage LLC

Joy has been expressing her passion to help others through massage therapy since 2000. She has had the opportunity to work with and assist people in all walks of life including professional baseball players and golfers, amateur athletes of all types, and in both industrial and medical settings.  In addition to the popular Swedish, Deep Tissue and Hot Stone therapies, Joy is also certified and experienced in several other modalities, including Cranial Sacral, Reiki, TMJ, Manual Lymphatic, Access Consciousness Bars, Ultimate Facelift and Medical Massage.

She is a graduate of the Birmingham School of Massage, Faulkner University, Gadsden Community College, and also attended Jacksonville State University where she was a Ballerina with the Marching Southerners.

Her other passions include gospel music, community theater with the Theater of Gadsden, Cast and The Whole Backstage, and animal rescue, playing the piano.  She currently resides in Sardis City, Alabama with her daughter Lauren Nicole (Niki), 5 cats and 3 dogs.