Two Reiki Practitioners, Two Unique Approaches

Reiki Energy Healing – and More

Olivia is a Board Certified Clinical Sexologist, third-degree Reiki practitioner & HeartMath® Certified Coach & Mentor.

After a severe and complicated 4-year battle with neurological Lyme Disease, heavy metal poisoning, and associated conditions such as anxiety, insomnia, chronic pain, and clinical depression, she was inspired to create a practice to help others regain health and balance. Reiki and HeartMath are the cornerstones of her work.

Olivia is a graduate of the Institute of Authentic Tantra in Vancouver, B.C., a government-accredited higher education institute and she is also an Authentic Tantra® Certified Practitioner. Her work employs somatic movement therapy, breathwork, meditation, mindfulness, and connection to heal trauma and expand pleasure capacity. She also utilizes ancient Tibetan Five Element Tantric practices and trauma-informed therapies to integrate body, mind, and spirit for those seeking a healthy, balanced, and sacred approach to sexuality. Olivia works with clients 1:1 in a clinical and therapeutic capacity, she also does connection and intimacy work with couples looking to deepen their connection to each other, rekindle intimacy, and shed old patterns that are no longer serving the relationship. Olivia hosts and creates intimacy workshops and retreats, and she is also available to teach HeartMath techniques for corporate team building and communications strategy training.

You can also listen to Olivia talk about love and relationships (while gently making fun of her life) on her weekly radio show, Sunday Nights are for Hopeless Romantics, on Berkshire Community Radio, WBCR-LP, Sunday nights at 9 pm or on MixCloud.

Sandy is a Master-level Usui Reiki practitioner and teacher.

After a decades-long career in the performing arts as a manager, producer, and teacher – alongside single-parenting her two daughters – Sandy experienced severe burnout and associated chronic health issues. During this time, she was introduced to Reiki treatment in a mainstream, therapeutic setting. Receiving Reiki regularly turned out to be the key to her physical, emotional, and energetic restoration.

Sandy began her Reiki studies with Dr. Pamela Youngquist and received her certification as a First Degree Reiki Practitioner in 2017. In 2019, when she became the primary caretaker for her daughter battling life-threatening neurological Lyme Disease, she decided to deepen her commitment to Reiki in order to help. During that battle, her daughter also became a practitioner and together, in 2021, they opened Back to Heart Center and began public practice. In 2023, Sandy began training with renowned Reiki scholar, author, and Reiki shihan (master-level teacher) Nicholas Pearson, receiving her Master/Teacher certification. Sandy is a perpetual student, passionate teacher, and devoted practitioner of the system of Usui Reiki.

REIKI TRAINING & CLASSES: As a Reiki teacher, Sandy offers both group and private courses in the study and application of the Usui system of Reiki. Classes offer initiation (also known as attunement) into the system and lineage of Usui Reiki and ongoing mentorship through the system’s progressive levels.

Sandy is currently welcoming students for Reiki Level 1, Shoden (the entry teachings) on a rolling basis. She also offers support to practitioners from any Reiki lineage seeking to reinvigorate, deepen, or further their Reiki practice and study.

For more information please email Sandy directly at info@backtoheartcenter.com