About Sarika
“I’m not here to fix you. Nothing about you is broken. I’m here so you can hear yourself think.”
The long way here.
Sarika didn’t arrive at coaching through a tidy career ladder. She arrived through a life, a full, complicated, deeply lived one, and everything that life asked her to carry.
For nineteen years she was a homemaker, the steady presence, the quiet logistics, the emotional weather system for everyone around her, while also volunteering with nonprofits that support women through domestic abuse recovery and financial rebuilding. During those same years, she lived through a decade of major depression and anxiety, learning first-hand what it takes to keep showing up for everyone else while barely holding yourself together.
“Grief doesn’t ask whether you’re ready. It just hands you a different life and waits to see what you’ll do.”
In 2012, her husband passed away suddenly. She moved to Canada with her two teenage children and rebuilt her life from the ground up, navigating grief and starting over in a new country, all while still supporting aging parents and in-laws long-distance in India. It was that convergence, loss, rebuilding, and long-distance caregiving of her own, that made the direction of her work unmistakable.
The certifications came next. Not to borrow authority, but to hold lived experience to a real standard.
The path, briefly
- 1993–2012
Nineteen years, holding the center
A full life as a homemaker, while volunteering with nonprofits that support women through domestic abuse recovery and financial rebuilding. She lived through a decade of major depression and anxiety across these same years, learning what it takes to keep showing up for everyone else.
- 2012
A loss, and a move across the world
Her husband passed away suddenly. She moved to Canada with her two teenage children and rebuilt her life from the ground up, all while still supporting aging parents and in-laws long-distance in India.
- Training
Turning it into craft
iPEC, the Energy Leadership Index (ELI), and an ICF PCC credential with over 600 coaching hours. She is also a Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach.
- Today
The work she was always doing
Coaching professionals and NRIs in the U.S. and Canada who are caring for aging parents and beginning to feel the internal cost, quietly, without hype, and without ever making anyone feel small for needing it.
How Sarika works
Three promises about the room.
No hype
No breakthroughs promised by Friday, no manufactured urgency. Real change is quieter and more durable than that, and I won't sell you the loud version.
No platitudes
You won't hear "everything happens for a reason" in this room. You'll hear real questions, held long enough to reach a real answer.
No shaming
Whatever you find when you finally slow down, it's met with steadiness, not judgment. You've done enough being hard on yourself.
Properly qualified
Credentials, for the skeptics.
Lived experience, held to a real professional standard.
iPEC
Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching
ELI-MP
Energy Leadership™ Index, Master Practitioner
ICF PCC
Professional Certified Coach, ICF
FMCHC
Functional Medicine Certified Health Coach