About Us
About Us
Hi! My name is Idara [“Ee-dair-uh”] E. Bassey, Attorney, Lawyer Life Coach & Corporate Energy Strategist. As your Partner in “Helping Black Women Lawyers Thrive,” JOY Legal LLC leverages cutting edge modalities to pave the way to your optimal professional functioning. By giving you new tools to move past the stressors in your experience you can bring your A-game to the table. When you unearth root causes of stressors you are that much closer to operating at 100% and this clears the way to achieving your aligned vision for your lawyer life as you define it. What goals do you wish to reach? Let’s work together to release the blocks to making this happen so you can assume your rightful place at your workplace ready, willing and able to operate at the highest levels. Everyone benefits- your clients, friends and family-when you’re at your best!
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT CONSULTING Founder, JOY Legal LLC (previously iebLegalWellness), 100% Virtual Office Developed distinctive holistic solutions to personal and corporate challenges by conducting energy healings, spiritual coaching sessions and self-empowerment workshops for lawyers, corporate professionals and organizations. Assisted clients with releasing energetic blockages to achieving emotional/physical wellness and awakening their intuitive abilities and integrating them with their current linear thinking approaches to achieve greater personal and professional success. Past workshop topics include: • “Facilitating Life Changes” • “Change Up! Taking Your Life to the Next Level” • “Learning to Love Yourself- One Day at a Time” • “Developing Your Intuition for Personal & Professional Success,” Atlanta Renewal Retreat @ UNITY North Church, Marietta, GA • “Living Powerfully: A Step-by-Step Process” • “Legal Aid for Lightworkers…Living Your Light While Minding the Law” • “The Emotion Code™: Energy Healing Made Simple,” Integrative Medicine Committee Meeting, Atlanta VA Medical Center, Atlanta, GA • “Every Step is Sacred,” Celebration Center for Spiritual Living, Falls Church, VA • “Practical Intuition,” UNITY Atlanta- Women’s Circle Ministry, Peachtree Corners. GA Past intuitive consulting clients include: • Takoma Park Metaphysical Chapel (Silver Spring, MD) • 4see Corporation (Santa Fe, NM) • Lady of the Lake Metaphysical Books & Gifts (San Diego, CA) • Blisswoman Spa (Ocean Beach, CA) • Pywacket Angel Shop (Cardiff-by-the-Sea, CA) • MulligranGraham Consulting (British Columbia, CANADA) • Better Health & Gourmet (Atlanta, GA) • Private clients in Vermont, San Diego, Washington, D.C., Florida, Atlanta • 12listen.com (worldwide)
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
Doctoral Degree in Metaphysical Counseling (Ministerial) (Mc.D.)
University of Sedona, Sedona, AZ
Specialization: application of metaphysical principles in corporate environments
Master of Laws (LL.M.) – Ford Foundation Fellow in Public International Law
University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, GA
Juris Doctor (J.D.) – Board of Regents Scholar
University of Georgia School of Law, Athens, GA
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in French Literature, Cum Laude
Washington University in St. Louis
Certificat Pratique de Français
Commercial (Paris Chamber of Commerce)
Ordained Minister, International Metaphysical Ministry
▪ Active Member, State Bar of Georgia,
▪ Past Member, International Alliance of Holistic Lawyers (IAHL)
▪ ICAN Career Advisor, The Women’s Center, Vienna, Virginia
▪ Board of Directors, Takoma Park Metaphysical Chapel, Silver Spring, MD
▪ Intuitive Insights School of Clairvoyance (San Diego, CA)
▪ Who’s Who of American Women
▪ Certified Six Sensory Practitioner (trained by Sonia Choquette)
▪ Certified Professional Coach designation (CPC)
▪ Reiki Levels I & II Certification
▪ Certified Emotion Code Practitioner (CECP)
▪ Certified Body Code Practitioner (CBCP)
▪ Certified Accredited EFT/TFT Tapping Practitioner