At Ardent Psychological Center, our team brings over 13 years of combined professional experience in counselling psychology, adolescent therapy, marriage and family therapy, and corporate mental health services across Kenya.We are grounded in clinical excellence, ethical integrity, and evidence-based psychological care. Our work is structured yet compassionate — combining global best practices with deep cultural and contextual understanding of individuals, families, and organizations. We do not simply offer therapy. We provide comprehensive mental health support designed to strengthen individuals, restore relationships, support children and adolescents, and enhance workplace wellbeing.
Meet Joy Ituika
Founder & CEO | Corporate Mental Health Consultant | Mental health Advocate
Ardent Psychological Center was born from a conviction — that mental health care in Kenya deserves structure, dignity, and excellence.
Joy Ituika founded Ardent with a clear and unwavering vision: to build a psychological practice grounded in ethical integrity, clinical precision, and compassionate care. She saw the need for mental health services that were not only accessible, but professionally structured and aligned with global standards — services that individuals, families, and organizations could trust.
Joy’s work has always centered on helping people move from emotional overwhelm to clarity. She works with adults navigating anxiety, depression, stress, relational challenges, burnout, and life transitions. But Joy’s vision extended beyond the therapy room.
Recognizing the growing mental health needs within workplaces, she expanded Ardent into corporate mental health and Employee Assistance Programs (EAP), partnering with organizations to strengthen psychological safety, resilience, and leadership wellbeing. She believes that emotionally supported employees build stronger institutions — and that corporate wellness must be handled with confidentiality, structure, and measurable impact.
She has intentionally cultivated a team culture rooted in professionalism, trauma-informed practice, and ethical accountability. Every service delivered under Ardent reflects her commitment to evidence-based standards and stigma-free mental health care.
Those who work with Joy often describe her as composed, visionary, and deeply empathetic. She combines calm leadership with emotional intelligence — creating spaces where clients and corporate partners feel both understood and confidently guided.
At the heart of Joy’s leadership is a simple but powerful belief:
Mental health care should never feel uncertain, unsafe, or unstructured.
It should feel clear, ethical, and empowering.
Through Ardent Psychological Center, Joy continues to build more than a practice — she is building a standard. A standard of care that strengthens families, empowers adolescents, supports professionals, and promotes resilient workplaces across Kenya.
Meet Leslie Pere
Licensed Psychologist | Individual Therapist | Specialist in Adolescent & Pre-Teen Emotional Wellbeing
At Ardent Psychological Center, we believe that young people thrive when they are supported with structure, empathy, and genuine understanding. Leslie Pere brings this balance into her work as a Licensed Psychologist and Individual Therapist specializing in adolescent and pre-teen mental health. She offers a calm, safe, and developmentally attuned space where young people can express their feelings, explore their identity, and build confidence.
Leslie supports adolescents and pre-teens experiencing anxiety, depression, academic pressure, low self-esteem, emotional regulation difficulties, peer challenges, and social media stress. Her therapeutic style is warm yet structured, grounded in evidence-based approaches that help young people strengthen resilience, emotional intelligence, and coping skills. She works collaboratively with parents while maintaining ethical confidentiality, improving communication and emotional safety within the family.
Clients often describe Leslie as patient, approachable, and deeply attentive. She brings clarity and compassion to her sessions, helping young people move from overwhelm to stability and from self-doubt to confidence.
Leslie is committed to empowering the next generation with the emotional tools they need to navigate adolescence and thrive into adulthood.
Meet Millicent Lukundo
Licensed Psychologist | Marriage & Family Therapy Specialist | Clinical Supervisor | Trainer of Trainers (TOT)
Millicent Lukundo — fondly known as Milly — is a Licensed Counselling Psychologist and Marriage & Family Therapy Specialist with extensive experience supporting individuals, couples, children, and families across Kenya.
Her work is rooted in trauma-informed and family-systems approaches, recognizing that emotional challenges often reflect deeper relational and generational patterns. Milly works with clients navigating marital conflict, parenting challenges, family transitions, emotional distress, and relational breakdowns with clarity, professionalism, and compassion.
Children and adolescents form an important part of her practice. She provides developmentally attuned, evidence-based interventions that strengthen emotional regulation, communication skills, and family cohesion.
Beyond therapy, Milly serves as a Clinical Supervisor and certified Trainer of Trainers (TOT), mentoring mental health practitioners and contributing to ethical supervision standards in Kenya’s counselling profession. Her leadership strengthens not only individuals and families, but also the broader systems that support them.
Clients often describe Milly as grounded, steady, and reassuring. She combines warmth with clinical structure, creating safe environments where meaningful and sustainable change becomes possible.
Meet Kenneth Kariuki
Licensed Psychologist | Marriage & Family Therapy Specialist | Child & Adolescent Psychologist | Clinical Supervisor & Trainer of Trainers (TOT)
At Ardent Psychological Center, we believe that clarity, structure, and compassion create the foundation for meaningful psychological care. Kenneth Kariuki — known to many as Ken — brings this balance into every therapeutic space he holds.
Ken is a Licensed Psychologist with experience in Counseling Psychology, Marriage and Family Therapy, and Child & Adolescent Psychology. He works with individuals, couples, children, and families, supporting them through emotional challenges, relational conflict, behavioral concerns, and life transitions with steady guidance and evidence-based care.
Children and adolescents form a significant focus within his practice. Ken conducts structured child psychological assessments to better understand developmental, emotional, and behavioral concerns, supporting informed intervention and collaboration with families and schools. He also works with children with special needs, providing patient, developmentally sensitive support tailored to each child’s unique strengths and challenges.
In marriage and family therapy, Ken helps restore communication, strengthen connection, and create healthier relational patterns within the home.
Clients and families often describe Ken as calm, thoughtful, and reassuring. He combines clinical structure with genuine empathy, creating safe environments where individuals and families can grow with confidence.