My Roots

Erica Priscilla Sandoval, LCSW, SIFI is an award-winning mental health practitioner, speaker, spiritual healer, entrepreneur, podcaster, philanthropist, and five-time published author of Latinx/e in Social Work.

Sandoval is the Executive Director of Siembra Today, a women-run, BIPOC-led nonprofit devoted to providing accessible mental health and wellness support through narrative storytelling, books, workshops, healing circles, conferences, and social media campaigns. Siembra Today’s goal is to destigmatize and promote mental health and wellness for the Latinx/e and BIPOC community, so that they can plant seeds of hope for themselves and future generations.

Sandoval is the founder and CEO of Sandoval Psychotherapy Consultation—known as Sandoval CoLab—which offers talk therapy, ketamine-assisted psychotherapy (KAP), and holistic offerings. KAP is a breakthrough approach to an awakened mind and healing trauma and depression, and she is dedicated to bringing KAP and other holistic methods of healing to communities disproportionately affected by trauma.

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She is also the creator of the book series Latinx/e in Social Work, three volumes of personal narratives available in both English and Spanish that amplify the voices of Latinx/e social workers nationwide. Sandoval founded Latinx/e in Social Work to cultivate community among Latinx/e social workers and build a more diverse pipeline of future social workers. The collective’s two anthologies of essays and companion journal have been received with critical acclaim, winning honorable mention at the 24th annual International Latino Book and Film Awards and reaching number one in Amazon’s Psychology and Social Work New Release categories., In 2020, Sandoval became the first immigrant Latina president of the National Association of Social Workers’ New York City chapter and is now the chapter’s President Emeritus. Sandoval is a philanthropist and a donor to the Latino Social Work Coalition and Scholarship Fund, NYU Silver School’s Latinx Social Work Student Organization, and many other causes. She was recognized as the 2023 Today’s Inspired Latina of the Year by Fig Factor Media and as a Latino Leader on the Radar by Latino Leaders in Action.

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She holds an associate’s degree from the Borough of Manhattan Community College, a bachelor’s degree from Baruch College, and a master’s in social work from the New York University Silver School of Social Work. Sandoval also holds a post-master’s certificate in clinical practice with adolescents and belongs to the National Board of the Council on Social Work Education. Sandoval presented for the Trauma Research Foundation and has been trained at the Ketamine Training Center by Dr. Ron Siegel, Dr. Phil Wolfson, Bessel van der Kolk, M.D., and Licia Sky, co-founder and CEO of the Trauma Research Foundation.

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Sandoval has spent many years working in the non-profit sector; Make-A-Wish and Charla de Lupus at Hospital for Special Surgery have been the sectors where she has grown and learned the most. As a proud immigrant from Ecuador, her passion is fueled by supporting the community she is a part of and their children. Her greatest pride is being a single mother and raising her daughter, Isabella, whom she considers her biggest teacher.​​​​​​​