Emotional, Physical & Spiritual Guidance
As a Health Psychology Coach and Life Empowerment Guide, I guide you in balancing and connecting with your whole self – mind, body, and spirit. Through working together, you’ll gain clarity, confidence, and resilience to create a meaningful and fulfilling life. I support you in healing all aspects of yourself. With experience guiding clients in a wide variety of life situations, I empower you to make conscious choices, take proactive steps, and live authentically and purposefully. You will discover and understand how your thoughts, emotions and subconscious mind affect your physical body and learn tools for coping with stress in all its forms.
How I Can Help
Bridging psychology with holistic healing
With a Master’s in Health Psychology and an MBA, I integrate scientifically grounded techniques with holistic methods to create lasting transformation. My approach is rooted in the study of mind-body interactions, stress resilience, and cognitive-behavioral strategies, ensuring that every tool I use is backed by both research and experience.
Whether you’re feeling stuck, overwhelmed, or seeking deeper self-awareness, I provide practical strategies and ongoing support to help you create meaningful change.
- Transform limiting beliefs & subconscious blocks
- Manage stress, anxiety & emotional overwhelm
- Strengthen mind-body connection & resilience
- Align with your purpose & live authentically
What to Expect Working With Me
Combining psychology with holistic techniques for real results
From the moment we begin, you’ll be welcomed into a safe, supportive space where you can relax, breathe, and be yourself. Whether you’re feeling overwhelmed, stuck, or seeking clarity, our time together is designed to meet you where you are and help you move forward with confidence.
Each session is personalized to your unique journey, blending psychology-based strategies with holistic healing techniques. Together, we’ll:
- Clarify your goals & current experience – We’ll explore where you are now versus where you want to be, helping you gain clarity around your life purpose, values, and long-term aspirations.
- Release limiting beliefs & subconscious blocks – Using PSYCH-K®, we’ll identify and shift deep-seated subconscious beliefs that may be holding you back, allowing you to move forward with confidence and alignment.
- Develop emotional resilience & confidence – Through HeartMath® techniques, you’ll learn how to manage stress, regulate emotions, and build resilience, strengthening your ability to handle life’s challenges with greater ease.
- Create a personalized path forward – Together, we’ll set meaningful, achievable goals that align with your values and authentic desires, ensuring you feel empowered to take the next steps toward lasting change.
- Learn practical tools for daily well-being – I’ll provide evidence-based strategies, including mindfulness, meditation, and breathwork, to help you enhance personal and interpersonal skills like communication, assertiveness, boundary-setting, emotional intelligence, and stress reduction.
- Manage fear & self-doubt with confidence – Discover how to reframe challenges, cultivate a growth mindset, and develop self-awareness so you can move forward with a sense of empowerment and purpose.
You’ll leave each session feeling heard, supported, and equipped with personalized tools to create lasting transformation.
Schedule a free consultation to take the first step toward a more balanced and fulfilling life.
Ongoing Support & Individualized Tools
Unlike many other guides, coaches or therapists, I provide continuing support outside of our sessions to uplift you as you move towards your desired experience. My work is rooted in the foundations of health psychology. Depending on each client’s individual needs, I may utilize one or a few of the following tools to help facilitate change and support my clients: Reiki, PSYCH-K, mindfulness, reflective listening, talk therapy, and/or meditation.
“Thank you, Joan, for being a guide and helping me start finding who I am again.”
Joan is amazing! She is able to listen, decipher the content and help guide you to perspective, solutions, next steps and peace. I appreciate all Joan can do!
Joan Gilbert will gently and masterfully help you transform your life by being present and walking you through the powerful PSYCH-K experience. After one session, my life has already dramatically improved. It is a simple process that reveals what you truly desire. It uses practical steps to enact change in your body, mind and daily experience. I am recommending this to everyone who wants to grow and change their belief structure in order to live the life they have imagined for themselves. Thank you, Joan, for being such a kind and enlightening guide on this journey.
How I Support Your Well-Being
Emotional Well-Being
Shift limiting beliefs, manage stress, and cultivate resilience.
- Subconscious Reprogramming (PSYCH-K®) to release deep-seated blocks.
- HeartMath® techniques to regulate emotions & enhance resilience.
- Mindfulness & stress reduction strategies for inner peace & clarity.
Develop self-awareness, confidence, & emotional intelligence.
Physical Well-Being
Deepen self-connection, strengthen relationships, and align with purpose.
- Intuitive guidance to explore life purpose & personal growth.
- Mindfulness & meditation to enhance inner clarity.
- Build healthy relationships through communication & boundary-setting.
Cultivate compassion, presence, and authentic connection.
Spiritual / Social Well-Being
Strengthen the mind-body connection for holistic healing & balance.
- Breathwork & relaxation techniques to reduce stress.
- Reiki energy healing to restore balance & promote well-being.
- Mindful practices for improved sleep, digestion, & overall vitality.
- Learn to listen to your body’s signals & align with its needs.
Each of these areas works together to create a balanced, fulfilling life.
Free Initial Consultation
Want to meet Joan and talk with her to feel confident her services are a good fit for you? Schedule a free 15-minute consultation today! Ask questions, get more information and gain confidence that Joan is the guide for you. No pressure, no obligation. Just curiosity and connection – I look forward to meeting you!
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Transformational Tools & Modalities Offered
HeartMath® Coaching: Unlock the Power of Your Heart
Your heart does more than just pump blood—it’s a powerful information-processing center that plays a vital role in your overall well-being. With every beat, your heart communicates with your brain and body through the nervous system, hormones, and bioelectromagnetic signals. This constant exchange not only impacts your physical health but also profoundly influences your emotions, behaviors, and perceptions, shaping the way you experience the world.
HeartMath® is a science-based approach that helps you reduce stress, improve resilience, and enhance well-being by connecting with the power of your heart. Using simple techniques and biofeedback technology, you can learn to regulate your emotions, improve focus, and create a sense of inner balance.
HeartMath® works by helping you “fire up” your nervous system in a way that creates balance instead of stress. Your heart and brain are constantly communicating, and the heart actually sends more information to the brain than the other way around. When you’re stressed, your heart’s signals become chaotic, which can make you feel anxious, overwhelmed, and unfocused. HeartMath® teaches simple breathing and focus techniques to shift your heart’s rhythm into a smooth, steady pattern. This calm and balanced state, called coherence, sends powerful signals to your brain, reducing stress, improving focus, and helping you feel more in control. It also has a direct impact on your physical health—lowering blood pressure, strengthening your immune system, and improving sleep. By training your heart and mind to work together, you create a state of balance that helps you feel better emotionally and physically.
- Reduce Stress & Anxiety – Feel calmer and more in control
- Improve Focus & Clarity – Boost decision-making and productivity
- Enhance Emotional Resilience – Handle challenges with greater ease
- Better Sleep & Energy Levels – Feel more rested and refreshed
- Stronger Mind-Body Connection – Increase overall well-being
Through personalized coaching, I’ll guide you in practical, easy-to-use techniques that can help you feel more balanced, focused, and empowered in everyday life.
Ready to experience the benefits of HeartMath®? Let’s get started! 💙✨
While traditional meditation and breathing exercises help calm the mind and body, HeartMath® takes it a step further by using science-backed techniques and real-time biofeedback to create lasting change.
- Heart-Brain Connection: Unlike traditional methods that focus mainly on the mind or breath, HeartMath® teaches you to synchronize your heart rhythms with your brain, leading to deeper emotional balance and resilience.
- Real-Time Feedback: With HeartMath’s technology, you can see your heart rate variability (HRV) in real time, giving you instant insights into how well you’re managing stress and emotions.
- Practical & Quick Techniques: While meditation often requires long practice sessions, HeartMath® techniques can be used anytime, anywhere, helping you shift from stress to calm in just minutes.
- Science-Backed Results: Decades of research show that HeartMath® can lower stress hormones, improve sleep, and boost energy, making it a powerful tool for everyday life.
By training your heart and mind to work together, HeartMath® helps you build long-term resilience and well-being, going beyond relaxation to create real, measurable transformation. 💙✨
During a HeartMath® coaching session, I will guide you through science-backed techniques to help you manage stress, improve focus, and build emotional resilience—while using real-time biofeedback to track your progress.
- Initial Measurement & Awareness – We’ll start by measuring your heart rate variability (HRV) to see your current stress levels and emotional state.
- Identify Your Desired Shift – Together, we’ll discuss what shift you’d like to see and complete a Depletion to Renewal Plan to create a personalized strategy for improving your emotional balance.
- Practice HeartMath® Techniques – I’ll guide you through breathing and heart coherence exercises while using biofeedback technology to help you achieve a calm, focused state.
- Reconnect & Measure Again – We’ll take another HRV measurement to see the real-time impact of your practice, helping you visualize your progress.
- Reflection & Next Steps – We’ll review your experience and create a simple plan to integrate HeartMath® techniques into your daily life.
Each session is designed to be insightful, measurable, and easy to apply, so you can start seeing results right away! 💙✨
PSYCH-K®: Rewriting Your Subconscious Mind for Lasting Change
PSYCH-K® is a powerful, interactive process that helps you transform subconscious beliefs that may be limiting your potential. Unlike traditional coaching methods, PSYCH-K® works directly with your subconscious mind to replace self-limiting beliefs with empowering ones. This transformative process creates lasting change by aligning your mind and body with your goals, helping you achieve greater success, happiness, and overall well-being. In our sessions, I use PSYCH-K® to help you identify and shift negative thought patterns, remove inner resistance, and create new, positive beliefs that support your authentic desires and aspirations.
PSYCH-K® is a powerful, science-backed process that helps you quickly and easily shift subconscious beliefs to align with your conscious goals and inner wisdom. By transforming self-limiting beliefs, you can experience greater peace, satisfaction, and balance in all areas of life—mentally, emotionally, physically, and spiritually.
Unlike traditional methods like visualization, affirmations, or positive thinking, PSYCH-K® works directly with your subconscious mind to create lasting behavioral change, reduce stress, and enhance overall well-being. The best part? You don’t need to know the root cause of a challenge to move forward—our focus is on your goals and the positive experiences you want to create.
PSYCH-K® helps you eliminate internal roadblocks and replace self-defeating patterns with empowering beliefs, allowing you to take action toward the life you truly desire. Once you shift your subconscious, anything is possible! ✨
PSYCH-K® Example:
- Break Free from Limiting Beliefs – Release subconscious blocks holding you back.
- Reduce Stress & Anxiety – Create inner peace and emotional balance.
- Boost Confidence & Self-Worth – Reprogram your mind for empowerment.
- Improve Relationships – Transform beliefs around love and connection.
- Enhance Health & Well-Being – Support mind-body healing and reduce stress.
- Achieve Goals with Ease – Align your subconscious with your desires.
- Focus on the Present – No need to relive the past—change happens now!
With PSYCH-K®, you can unlock your potential and create a life you love! ✨
PSYCH-K® is a simple, non-invasive, and interactive process that helps you rewrite the subconscious programs shaping your life. Research shows that 95% of our thoughts, beliefs, and behaviors are driven by the subconscious mind, often without us realizing it. These deeply ingrained patterns—formed from past experiences—can hold us back from achieving our goals.
Most of the time, we operate on auto-pilot, unaware of how our subconscious programming limits our actions, reactions, and potential. PSYCH-K® helps identify and transform self-limiting beliefs into self-enhancing ones by creating a Whole-Brain State—a balanced connection between both hemispheres of the brain. This alignment eliminates subconscious resistance and unlocks your full ability to respond effectively to challenges.
A PSYCH-K® balance creates the potential for change, but your actions create the results. By aligning your subconscious mind with your conscious goals, you can move forward with greater ease, confidence, and success.
A PSYCH-K® session is a powerful, in-person experience (typically 60-90 minutes) where I guide you through the PSYCH-K® change process to help you shift limiting beliefs and align with your goals.
During Your Session:
- Identify What’s Holding You Back – We’ll explore areas where you feel stuck and clarify the changes you want to make.
- Create Empowering Goal Statements – Together, we’ll craft specific, subconscious-friendly statements that support your desired outcomes.
- Facilitate the PSYCH-K® Balance – Using a simple yet effective process, I’ll guide you through a “balance” to reprogram your subconscious mind with new, empowering beliefs.
- Use Muscle Testing for Feedback – We’ll communicate with your subconscious through muscle testing, which helps confirm shifts in belief patterns.
- Integrate & Align with Your Goals – Your subconscious will be programmed to support your new beliefs, allowing you to move forward with greater ease and confidence.
- Create Action Steps – We’ll discuss any practical next steps to accelerate and reinforce your transformation.
Each session is designed to be safe, effective, and life-changing, helping you break through limitations and create the reality you desire. Are you ready to step into your full potential?
REIKI:
The word Reiki is made of two Japanese words – Rei which means “God’s Wisdom or the Higher Power” and Ki which is “life force energy”. So Reiki is actually “spiritually-guided, life-force energy.” Reiki is the vibration, the waves of energy from the universe that guides everything towards love, harmony, and healing. Reiki fills the universe with pure light, love, and joy and leads us to health and happiness.
When Reiki is in our body, it fills us with the life force energy of pure love and harmony. It manifests as a natural healing energy which improves the functioning of our human body and supports us to live an energetic and active life. Reiki nourishes us and everything that exists with the energy of love and harmony.
Reiki is a simple, natural and safe method of spiritual healing and self-improvement from which everyone can benefit. It treats the whole person including body, emotions, mind, and spirit creating many beneficial effects that include relaxation and feelings of peace, security and well-being. It has been used to assist in the treatment of virtually every known illness and creates a beneficial effect. It also works in conjunction with other medical or therapeutic techniques to relieve side effects and promote recovery.
In a Reiki healing session, Reiki is administered by “laying hands” on the recipient. In a session with me, you lay completely clothed on a massage-type table with soothing music playing quietly in the background. I do not place my hands directly on you, but drift them over you as the unseen “life force energy” flows through my hands to you. There is no speaking during a Reiki treatment, just silence. A treatment can last up to an hour and may feel like a wonderful glowing radiance is flowing through and around you, reducing stress and relaxing you.
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Live the Life You Desire
Your wellness journey is unique to you, and nobody knows better than you what you need. As your guide, I create a safe space in which you can express yourself and be heard without judgment. In our individualized one-on-one sessions, I intuitively and reflectively listen to you in order to help you achieve long-lasting health and vitality. These sessions are your time to work towards complete wellness, to move from surviving to thriving. We are not only here to live, but to live well. I look forward to meeting you and helping you live the life you desire.
– Joan
