Who We Are

Sandra Phocas

Background:

From a young age, Sandy had a strong desire to help people heal. She followed this calling by becoming a physician, specializing in psychiatry, then working as a psychiatrist for the next 10 years. But even with her extensive training and experience, she knew there was more to learn and understand about helping people to heal. And so she was drawn to explore alternative healing and spiritual practices— from EMDR, Meditation, and Hypnosis to Holotropic Breathwork™, Transpersonal Psychology, and Shamanism. Her shamanic explorations took her across the United States, as well to Ecuador, Zimbabwe, South Africa, and Botswana, where she learned from indigenous healers the powerful healing wisdom and practices that have been followed for countless generations.

Those years of diverse training and experiences changed her world and gave Sandy a much larger perspective through which she views her work, people, and the world: “Over and over I have been awed and honored to experience the incredible beauty of the human heart and spirit and the amazing power we have to overcome adversity and transform ourselves and our lives. I have learned of the powerful healing wisdom that exists within all of us, as well as the necessity of attending to the energetic and spiritual foundations of healing.” The expanded view of health, wholeness, and healing that evolved for Sandy led her to leave her practice of psychiatry in 2005 to focus her work on the deeper nature of healing and transformation, to help others to reconnect with the power of their true essence, their true voice, and their unique gifts. It also led her to found Co-Creative Evolution at the end of 2009.

For more information on Sandy's training and experience, click here for her curriculum vitae.

Click here to read Sandy's recent blog post on the Soul's call and her journey from psychiatrist to healer.

Sandy’s Work:

Although she offers a variety of modalities and practices to help her clients, Sandy’s overall focus is always the same—to help people access their own deep inner truth, power, unique creativity, and joy. She knows that trauma and conditioning can cause people to disconnect or be blocked from their authentic self and from health, love, peace, and joy. She facilitates her clients’ movement through the multi-layered process of healing, transformation, and re-membering. This process helps clients identify their unique gifts, as well as locating any blocks so that they can be cleared or transformed, whether they are physical, mental, emotional, or spiritual. This typically includes Sandy doing shamanic healing work on her client’s behalf, as well as empowering and guiding clients to tap into their own healing wisdom through hypnosis, meditative practices, breathwork, and guided shamanic journeys.

Although some clients come seeking a specific type of work, many do not and a plan is arrived at with Sandy once they come in for a session. The modalities that Sandy works with are summarized below. In addition, Sandy utilizes sound, breath, movement, and meditative practices.

Shamanic Healing

Shamanic Healing affects change at the deepest levels of self, as it can access the unconscious, energetic and soul levels. This allows for healing of physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual imbalances. Shamanic work helps to clear out what is harmful or blocking full health, creativity, or connection to and expression of one’s essence. It also aligns and balances the energy body, as well as reconnecting what has been disconnected due to trauma or conditioning. Shamanic healing helps to shake up and release old, limiting beliefs and structures, while increasing connection to one’s heart, joy, and passion.

In shamanic healing sessions, Sandy works on behalf of the client, bringing their intention into the work as she opens to intuition, direct guidance and channeling of Spirit. She journeys into the spirit realms for energy, wisdom, power, and guidance and is the conduit for the healing energy work. Each session for each person is always unique.

Shamanic healing work may involve soul retrieval, extraction, power animal retrieval, and energy work.

Mentoring

Sandy helps clients to find and honor their own true voice and their own unique vision. Mentoring is valuable for anyone looking to live an authentic, vibrant life and seeking assistance in doing so. For those who are shamanic or other healing practitioners, mentoring offers guidance regarding any and all aspects of navigating one's own journey while guiding and healing others, as well as deepening the healing power of one's work. (Available in person or via phone.)

Shamanic Hypnosis

The client is guided verbally into a deep, focused state of relaxation that is not limited by the normal perceptions of space, time, or perspective. This takes one beyond the conscious mind, deep within the self and within spirit realms to directly access guidance, energy, new perspectives, and healing.

Past-life Regression

In traveling to past lifetimes, one finds increased perspective on the current lifetime and can heal emotions and unhealthy patterns, as well as receiving a new perspective on one’s true nature. This is done using hypnosis.

Holotropic Breathwork

The use of fast, deep breathing and evocative music in this process brings one into a deep non-ordinary state of consciousness not limited by the normal perceptions of space, time, or perspective. The extended length of each breathing session (3 hours) and the nature of this technique make it a very powerful practice for opening to innate healing wisdom of the mind, body, and spirit.

Contact

Sandy Phocas offers individual, couple, and group sessions. Her primary office is in Winston-Salem, NC, but she also offers some individual sessions when she travels to facilitate workshops (that currently includes Charlottesville VA, Annapolis MD, and Rhinebeck NY). She also does distance healing and mentoring for those who live elsewhere.

Please feel free to contact her if you have questions, would like further information, or wish to schedule an appointment. For her upcoming classes and workshops, click here.

For information on her meditation CD, Meditations for Everyday, click here.

email: ssatchi@earthlink.net
phone: 336.287.0061

 

*Please note that Sandy has retired her medical license to focus on alternative modalities of healing, so she does not diagnose, prescribe, treat, or cure any specific illnesses and her work is not covered by insurance.