Healing with Joy

I attended an evening workshop that Joy led and I was amazed at her intuitive listening abilities, and the guided meditation tools she provided to us. I left feeling more grounded, more inspired and more motivated to make the changes I want to make in my life. She is indeed a wise and joy-​filled healer!

I really enjoyed my work with Joy. She was a gift from the universe! She is very intuitive, wise, kind and a superb hypnotherapist. Each session was profound with both healing of the past and opening up new avenues to my future. I am glad I met her and you will be too!

Love working with Joy. She is gifted and I always feel cared for in a really profound way. She is continually expanding her skills as a healing arts practitioner. I like this because it shows she’s always wanting to give you the best possible care.

I have worked with Joy on and off for 10 years in her private practice. In June, I was diagnosed with breast cancer and she helped me prepare for my surgeries (and post healing) through talking, reiki and precious stones. It made a real difference! She is a wonderful listener, very insightful, caring and gives great hugs!

Joy is very inspirational, wise and down to earth. I appreciate her guidance very much.

Joy is a gifted healer and intuitive. She brings joy, light, and clarity to her work, and therefore to her clients. Her insight, guidance, and her innate ability to be a loving listener were very helpful for me.

I have been working with Joy for the past several months. The incredible support, wisdom, directness, and love she provides is life-​changing. I am grateful and inspired now!
My reasons for seeking help were even deeper than the struggles, confusion, and conflicts in my life at the time.
From the moment I contacted Joy, she has shown prompt consideration, openness, and a higher spiritual wisdom that is so rare and precious these days. Joy offers an initial free 30 minute consultation, wherein, offers sincere insight and counsel to achieve the healing that is desired/​needed. Upon our initial phone conversation, I knew Joy was what I had been looking for!
Joy and I have been working together for merely 3 months, yet I feel that my soul knows her-​forever. She has an incredible presence, an extraordinary light, an amazing worldly and spiritual wisdom, and varied healing modalities. Joy is «the Real Deal» — an exceptional healer with all the depth, complexity, and creativity befitting a ‘master’ in her class.
I am so intrigued by her work with the Goddess /​Sacred Feminine and Women’s Circles. I shall look forward to much more exploration and teachings with Joy. I now have new «joy» in my life, and I recommend her highly to everyone!
«Healing» + «Understanding» + «Transformation» = Joy!

I have benefited from several of Joy’s offerings… Women’s Circle, Women’s Wisdom classes and one on one sessions in her private practice. Being a spiritual seeker, in late 2014 I realized all the work I had been doing to create health and happiness was still not bringing me the freedom and peace I longed for. I knew it was time to set up some one on one sessions with Joy. I took advantage of her three-​month series of sessions.
I needed something more than just talk therapy, and I wanted a spiritual approach to my healing. Through visualization and hypnotherapy, Joy and I were able to work directly on my core issues, to clear out old pain and to bring in peace. I got to take recordings of the meditations with me to use again and again. Joy’s methods were so effective in helping me find what was blocking me from my true happiness, and I was able to make the changes I needed.
It is not just Joy’s methods that are outstanding. She is very spiritually conscious and connected, and I felt safe and cared for in her presence. I continue to take Joy’s classes and attend her women’s circles. Joy is a leader in Divine Feminine education and consciousness. Her research and knowledge are extensive, and I feel so blessed to benefit from it! Thank you, Joy, for all you do!

Three months ago I was anxious, sad, alone, scared and not hopeful of the future. Today I can say that I feel confident, I feel hopeful, I have faith, I feel strong and at ease. And I wouldn’t be where I am today without the help of Joy! I have struggled with anxiety and self love for many many years now and I can honestly say that my work with Joy has been the most effective out of all the people I’ve seen and things I’ve tried (and I have tried a lot!) I’m SO grateful to have found her. She’s truly helped change my life. Thank you Joy!!!

Joy helped me realize problems in my life that I wasn’t even able to consciously notice. With just a one hour session I felt the unspoken burden of my busy work life lift off my shoulders. With Joy’s help I was able to reassess my goals. This helped me give up on my stubbornness and move on to better and bigger things.
Looking back I can’t believe I didn’t think I needed help. I was too stubborn to see what I needed to do. Without ever telling me what to do Joy helped me realize the situation, and i couldn’t be happier.
Thanks Joy!

I waited to write a review because I wanted to see if it works and I can say I have been cigarette free for over 3 years!
She is very sweet and caring and really personalizes the experience.
I am grateful that even though I live with a smoker, I am very seldom tempted and when I am, I tell myself «No» and it passes.
Thank you, Joy!

I had the privilege of attending a couple of Joy’s workshops. She has an incredible amount of knowledge about how to empower people and how to live an inspirational life. Her seminars are a lot of fun. She is also very kind, non judgmental and it is very easy to work with her. I am very lucky that I found her. Attending her workshops has really changed my life. Her meditations are very beautiful and calming. I have many of her CDs and I often listen to them.
I have been working in health care for more than 20 years and I have also studied hypnotherapy. I would highly recommend Joy to my family and friends

I came to Joy with a very horrific personal problem that kept pulling me deeper and deeper into the drama and negativity of the situation. It was very specific and she and I created an outcome and then she made a tape specific to my problem. I must of listened to the tape 1000 times. Whenever the issue came up I would put my tape on. The issue was finally resolved, fairly and justly, which was my goal. I highly recommend her. She knows her stuff and is very safe to work with.

Joy helped me get through a difficult period when I was just ready to give up and was unhappy and angry. Her support, wisdom and caring nature aided me in rising above the challenge and come out stronger and happier. She taught me not only how to relax but she also gave me practical advice. She guided me in clearing the issues so that I could reframe my perspective and explore solutions.

I was at a point in my life where i was ready to let go of certain things that had been nagging me for some time but I wasn’t sure how.
Joy helped me out more than I can say.
Anytime I need to, I can play the cd and revisit the session to calm myself.
If traditional therapy didn’t work for you yet you are wanting to make a change, go ahead and give this a try!

I saw joy for a medical condition that I was desperate to fix. I was a bit unsure about hypnotherapy, but fully willing to try. I searched for a few weeks, and then I found Joy. I felt an immediate connection with her. She truly is a joy!
I explained to her why I was there and my uneasiness, she listened and found a treatment plan for me.
It has been 3 weeks since my last visit and I have to say I am 100% better!
I cannot thank her enough for what she has done to help me!
It has been such a pleasure having her be my hypnotherapist, the energy she gives off is so inviting and assuring, I highly recommend her to anyone who is thinking of trying hypnotherapy.
Five stars all the way :)

We are so lucky to have a therapist practicing this kind of work here in the San Mateo area. I recently came to see Joy and the therapeutic meditations we did together really made a difference in my psyche. The bonus was that she gave me a CD of our session that I could listen to again, to continue to get a «tune up.» Do not overlook this powerful therapy to overcome whatever you are going through.
Joy is a practiced therapist with a terrific «bed side» manner, so you feel totally safe and able to work on your stuff.
Go see her!

Where to begin? January 2010 marked a new and exciting time in my life. I started my own practice and joined a prestigious Medical Group in San Francisco and Oakland. In addition, I consult for Health Insurance companies and perform Medical-​Legal evaluations.
Sounds great? Yes and no. The amount of stress due to working 7 days/​week and my «weekend» consisting of work, paperwork and reports was taking it’s toll.
I was referred to Joy and she has been helping me tackle time management and stress reduction techniques which have been invaluable. She puts me in a deep state of relaxation and gives me the tools to help me manage my issues.
It’s no coincidence that her name is Joy because she is a «joy» to work with. Thanks again Joy for all your help and continued support.

Joy is a wonderful practitioner. She is intuitive, smart and very sweet. I’ve said this to many people about her hypnotherapy: that sometimes you can go to counseling and talk about issues until you are blue in the face, but sometimes you need something more, something deeper.
Joy has helped me with both physical and emotional ailments. Each time i see her she takes me to amazing places and has helped me heal from very traumatic events, has given me strength to complete my goals and has taught me how to center myself when things get hectic.
If you are at a crossroads and need to make a change, Joy is the person to see.

Joy Reichard is a pleasure to work with and completely different than my past experiences with hypnotherapy. I had tried hypnotherapy twice before working with Joy and though I liked the modality some, I wasn’t totally enthralled by it. When I booked my appointment with Joy, I don’t think I told her I was vaguely dubious, but really I was. I had remembered my past experiences where, though useful, I didn’t feel like the hypnotherapist had really «heard» me and had instead offered «textbook» solutions to the problem I was hoping to treat. By contrast, my experience with Joy was truly inspiring work.
Joy’s work is very individualized and though I felt I was coming in with a typical «run of the mill» problem, her approach was tailored to me and my personality, and she readily leveraged tools that appeared to work better with me and disregarded tools that might be better for others. I felt totally heard and understood and no sense of judgement on her part.
In the course of prodding me to go deeper into my own life experience, we were able to more clearly see how certain behaviors and thought processes may have been useful at a time, even if they were less useful (perhaps even detrimental) now. In short, it felt as if we were able to «unhook» these associations and create room for something different. It’s really transformative work.
One thing that’s impressive to me about her work is that she learned to adopt some of «my language» so that when we went into a relaxed state, I would benefit by her use of repeating back to me my own interpretations, goals, and understanding. The outcome is that the recording we made together under hypnosis is still useful to me today when I replay it on my own. The first recording we made was 3 years ago-​ish and since then we’ve worked on some different things and I’m finding out that her work is more varied than I had originally understood.
Disclosure: Joy and I know each other professionally as we both work out of the same San Mateo location. I believe this professional rapport mostly adds to my ability to Unilocal her because I too have a private medical practice and therefore, share some similar goals as Joy does. Personally, I look forward to using Joy’s service offerings to work on even deeper level with myself. Professionally, I look forward to referring more patients to her as well.