Sandika Joy - Empowerment Life Coach

I came to Sandika through the For Love We Heal page, and I am so glad I got connected with her! I initially came to her following a breakup but was able to dive deep about issues I had with self image and with family to feel more healed. She has a very compassionate direct approach and found her tools a great compliment to traditional therapy methods. Thank you Sandika for your work and I look forward to continue implementing what I learned with her!

Sandika Joy is a gentle, kind and empowering force. These are rare qualities in a person when combined. I thoroughly enjoyed working with her to release trauma. Her instruction is thorough. Her ability to hear a story behind a story helps you get to the root of the trauma. The tools that you are left with help to guide you through the little bumps and the big bumps on this road of life which can be as beautiful as it is hard. I am grateful to have worked with Sandika.

I have been seeing Sandika for few months now and she has been an incredible support to me. Her approach which focuses on gentle trauma release has been life changing for me.What I appreciate most about Sandika is her warm and empathetic personality. I feel safe and comfortable opening up about my vulnerabilities during our sessions.She provides practical coping mechanisms and honest about what would help me.With Sandika’s help I have made progress in healing from my childhood wounds and finding my voice slowly. I am very grateful to have found her and for the guidance and support she has given me through this journey. I highly recommend her to anyone who is struggling with similar issues :)

Sandika just gets it! I have felt so safe opening upto her during our sessions. She has provided me with an abundance of tools to navigate my childhood trauma and ROCD. Thank you Sandika !!

I‘ve worked with several therapists over the years, but I had never really felt connected to them or the work we were doing, until I met Sandika!Sandika and her use of IFS Therapy and GentleTrauma Release have changed my life and I have absolutely nothing but wonderful things to say about her and her practice. I’m such an over-analyzer and over-thinker, traditional talk therapy never seemed to offer me something I hadn’t already thought of - and then it seemed to just leave me even more in my head, with solutions that never got to the roots. Sandika’s practice gets me out of my head and into the roots. This is the first time I’ve felt therapy has actually been effective (and really, SO effective) at helping me shift my patterns, release emotional blocks, and on a deep level work through past trauma - these approaches are gentle (helpful for meeting my trauma), but the effects are truly profound. I struggle with ROCD, anxiety, and frequent senses of urgency due to my past, but I’ve never felt more in control of (and compassionate towards) my tendencies than I do now.I am so grateful for Sandika, and I really love working with her! I’m looking forward to all of the future transformations that I will go through with her :)

Sandika knows the way and she is amazing!!In the bouts of a major life change, debilitating anxiety, depression and ROCD I decided to schedule some time with Sandika. She told me that before we address any of my mentioned stresses it would be wise to spend some time on the root cause—the body’s response to trauma.At the time I did not realize how central our bodies were to our experience of life after trauma. I now realize that a lot of my extreme day to day reactions were similar to the way I was feeling when I was experiencing my trauma. Since I never released those emotions, they were stuck in me and seeped out during any given hardship.I went through the gentle trauma release method with Sandika and found that it kept me calm and held amidst some memories that I have always been scared to face. While performing the basic recipe, I released stuck emotions—I cried and felt anger—as we continued my body realized that I was in a safe environment to process my repressed emotions. After each session I truly felt that the emotional charge behind the memories we worked on was decreased by a significant amount. I could now think about the memory with more calm and acceptance rather than overwhelming fear. After performing this with many memories, I now feel much more controlled, more happy and experience less anxiety, depression and ROCD. Sandika has such a calm and loving energy, and she is such a bright light. Sandika was a game changer for me on my healing journey.

Sandika guided myself, my husband, and our housemate in a substance free month. Substance free included our 4 main addictions: coffee, alcohol, marajuana, and sugar! In the first week, Sandika would check in with us daily to see how we were doing and offer coaching and support. In the following weeks, she checked in bi-weekly. Sandika had a very gentle yet effective way of guiding us. She came up with a series of questions that we would answer to assess how we were coping with our lack of substances. This check-in allowed us to have a measurement tool to assess our resistance, and also our appreciation for having a clear mind and body. My husband and I both completed the month detox successfully. Sandika capped our success with a beautiful hike. At the top of the mountain, we had 10 minutes to ourselves to write our ideal existence" and a 3 sentence statement on believing in our best selves. We were very grateful for this support from her and would highly recommend her for this type of coaching for anyone who would like to gain control of substance addictions. Thank you Sandika for your skills and loving guidance."

Sandika has been such a safe space for me whilst I’ve navigated the weird and scary world of anxiety and OCD, teaching me tools I can use throughout the rest of my life. Her wisdom and perspective continues to encourage me towards the life I want, and I’m incredibly grateful to her for that!

Sandika is supportive, honest, grounding, and perceptive. Scheduling has been simple and I can reach her easily if something comes up. I can’t recommend her enough!

When I started seeing Sandika almost 6 months ago, I was struggling so much with anxiety and ROCD. The techniques she has taught me and practices we have implemented together have helped me so much! I used to overthink everything about my relationship, now, I'm engaged and so excited for our future together!!