Two founders. Two paths. The same gap.

We started Sona Wellness because we kept seeing the same thing everywhere — talented people feeling disconnected, and organizations wanting to support their teams but unsure how to make it stick.

Why we built Sona

Wellbeing isn't missing from the workplace. It's fragmented.

We came to it from different paths. Sandhya spent years in consulting and leading teams, watching capable people run on empty with no real way to help. Payal built deep expertise in clinical and integrative wellbeing, seeing how much people were missing about their own health. We kept landing in the same place: wellbeing isn't missing from the workplace — it's fragmented, scattered across apps and portals that never quite reach people.

What people actually want is simpler. Connection. Clarity. Support they can trust.

So we built Sona to bring it together. Our Sona Elements framework organizes wellbeing into three clear areas — Vitality, Clarity, and Versatility — making it easy to understand and act on. And we bring the right expertise directly into organizations, connecting teams with trusted, vetted practitioners through experiences designed to actually land.

Because wellbeing lands differently when it's shared. A team that experiences it together builds a connection no app can replicate — and the workplace, where we spend most of our waking hours, is exactly where that connection matters most. That's the culture we're building.

Our founders

The people behind Sona

Two founders — one clinical, one strategic — building the thing they wanted to exist for the teams they worked with.

Sandhya Patel

Co-Founder & Chief Strategy Officer

Sandhya Patel is Co-Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Sona Wellness, where she leads strategy, business development, and growth. Her path to wellbeing began in financial consulting, where she learned that the best client relationships came from understanding the whole person — their goals, their stresses, their lives — not just the numbers. Leading her own teams deepened that conviction: people do their best work when someone truly invests in how they're doing.

Sandhya brings that belief, and a lifelong appreciation for root-based wellbeing, to everything Sona builds for the teams it serves. She lives in North Dallas, where she and her husband are raising their two children with that same root-based foundation.

Payal Patel, Co-Founder and Chief Clinical Officer of Sona Wellness

Payal Patel, PharmD, FMCP

Co-Founder & Chief Clinical Officer

Payal Patel is Co-Founder and Chief Clinical Officer of Sona Wellness, where she leads the clinical and educational foundation behind everything Sona builds. Her path began in pharmacy, where over 25 years of practice showed her the limits of treating symptoms in isolation — and led her toward functional medicine, where she found a more complete way to understand why people struggle to feel well in the first place.

That shift changed how she thinks about wellbeing entirely: not as a set of symptoms to fix, but as a system — physical, mental, and lifestyle factors that are constantly shaping one another. Payal brings her clinical depth, and a firm belief that credible expertise should be the foundation of every wellness experience, to the work Sona does with the organizations it serves.

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