HEALTH & WELLNESS: Jamaican Women Making An Impact Across Florida

Taking Over Health & Wellness: Jamaican Women Making an Impact Across Florida

By Jah-Nelle Dallas

There is something powerful happening across Florida, and you can feel it in the businesses being built, the communities being served, and the dreams being turned into reality.

Jamaican women are taking up space.

Across health, wellness, mental health, senior care, women’s health, chiropractic care, body wellness, and healthier homes, Jamaican women are transforming expertise into enterprises that strengthen families and communities.

They are building businesses with purpose, creating culturally meaningful services, opening doors, and proving that leadership can be both bold and deeply rooted in care.

From Jamaica to Florida: A New Generation of Builders

For generations, Jamaican women have been known for resilience, resourcefulness, discipline, creativity, and the ability to turn vision into action. That same spirit is flourishing across Florida.

What makes this movement especially exciting is its range. These women are not confined to one lane. They are clinicians, founders, wellness leaders, senior-care operators, innovators, and community builders. Different industries. Different journeys. One undeniable energy: Jamaican excellence.

Sherida Gayle, LMFT, IMH-E® | Empowerment Counseling and Psychotherapy Services

Mental health is an area where compassion, cultural understanding, and trust matter deeply. Sherida Gayle brings all three into her work through Empowerment Counseling and Psychotherapy Services, a Florida-based mental health and wellness practice.

Her practice provides culturally responsive psychotherapy and wellness services for individuals, couples, families, parents, and young children. Services address anxiety, depression, life transitions, relationships, parenting, and infant and early childhood mental health.

Sherida’s work helps make mental wellness part of the conversation and creates space for families to seek support with dignity and understanding. That is leadership through empowerment.

Phone: 954-282-9413
Email: Sherida@empowercaps.com

Dr. Venessa Walker | Walker Chiropractic & Wellness Center

Through Walker Chiropractic & Wellness Center in Miramar, Dr. Venessa Walker has created a family-focused practice centered on personalized chiropractic and wellness care for patients of all ages.

Services include chiropractic care, injury treatment, spinal decompression, laser and shockwave therapy, massage therapy, sports rehabilitation, physicals, weight-loss programs, and more.

Dr. Walker’s work reflects a broad vision of wellness that supports the whole person while strengthening the health of the community one patient and one family at a time.

Phone: 954-614-0995
Email: drv@walkerchirofl.com

Kimba Williams | Kushae

Kimba Williams is bringing innovation to one of the most important conversations for women: feminine health and wellness.

Kushae offers OB/GYN-developed feminine wellness products made with natural, bioactive, plant-based ingredients. The company provides products designed to address concerns such as BV and yeast infections, along with everyday feminine care and maintenance.

By helping women speak more openly and confidently about intimate health, Kimba is building a brand that blends education, innovation, and purpose.

Phone: 954-254-2016
Email: kimba.williams@gmail.com

Tricia Chung | New You Body Boutique

Tricia Chung is bringing wellness, confidence, and personalized care together through New You Body Boutique.

New You Body Boutique offers affordable GLP-1 weight management and peptide wellness services with personalized programs designed to help clients become healthier and more confident. Services include physician-guided GLP-1 options and select peptide wellness therapies tailored to individual goals.

Her work reflects a growing movement toward individualized wellness support that helps clients take a more active role in their health journey.

Phone: (954) 274-0586
Email: triciadchung@aol.com

Pat Chin | The Healthy Home

Pat Chin is taking the wellness conversation beyond the clinic and into the place where people spend much of their lives: home.

Through The Healthy Home, Pat provides services and products designed to help reduce toxins in the home and support long-term wellness. Her work focuses on helping clients lower their “toxic load,” with the goal of supporting better sleep, improved respiratory health, and greater peace of mind.

Her approach is a powerful reminder that wellness is not only about what we do for our bodies. It is also about the environments we create around them.

Phone: 305-281-1070
Email: pat@patmchin.com

Michelle Wilger | Spring Gardens of Fleming Island / Spring Garden Senior Living (Orange Park)

Michelle Wilger is helping shape the future of senior care through licensed assisted living communities focused on comfort, dignity, independence, and quality of life.

Spring Gardens of Fleming Island and Spring Garden Senior Living in Orange Park provide personalized senior care, assistance with daily living, medication management, 24-hour supervision, meals, activities, respite care, and supportive services tailored to residents’ needs.

Michelle’s leadership represents another important dimension of wellness: ensuring older adults are cared for with respect, safety, compassion, and a true sense of community.

Phone: 904-657-2240 (Fleming Island); 904-592-6662 (Orange Park)
Email: info@springgardensfl.com

More Than Business: Building Healthier Communities

Together, these women demonstrate just how expansive health and wellness can be. Mental health matters. Mobility matters. Feminine health matters. Healthy home environments matter. Senior care matters. Confidence, prevention, education, and access all matter.

Their businesses extend beyond transactions. Every client served creates connection. Every family supported creates ripple effects. Every successful Jamaican woman in business becomes visible proof to another woman or young girl that there is room to lead, innovate, own, and build.

Florida Is Feeling the Impact

Across Florida, Jamaican women are turning professional expertise, cultural understanding, and entrepreneurial courage into businesses that meet real needs. They are creating jobs, expanding access to services, educating communities, and bringing fresh ideas into industries that touch people at every stage of life.

This is what impact looks like: healthier homes, healthier bodies, stronger minds, supported families, dignified aging, and communities with more options than they had before.

The Jamaican Woman Is Built to Build

There is a powerful combination behind so many Jamaican women in business: resilience, creativity, determination, resourcefulness, and the willingness to keep moving even when the road requires reinvention.

Sherida Gayle, Dr. Venessa Walker, Kimba Williams, Tricia Chung, Pat Chin, and Michelle Wilger each represent a different corner of health and wellness, but together they tell one larger story: Jamaican women are helping shape healthier communities across Florida.

They are not waiting for the future. They are building it.

Take up the space. Build the business. Tell the story. Create the legacy.

Jamaican women are not simply taking part in Florida’s health and wellness landscape. They are helping redefine it.