Integrity. Empathy. Results.

I am a licensed Acupuncturist and Manual Osteopath.

I grew up in a home that believed in the power of Chinese Medicine, my earliest memories as a child was going to a Chinese herbal pharmacy and the doctor would look at my tongue and weigh raw herbs on his scale. He would then wrap it carefully in newspaper, so we can prepare it at home. The aroma of steeped medicinal tea was pretty common in our house.

When I was young, my grandmother and I were close. She taught me the importance of self-care through massage therapy, herbal medicine, chinese plasters/linaments for cuts/sprains, and even face reading. She always said that you can tell a lot about someone by examining their face. I didn’t know it at the time but face reading can be used as a powerful tool for diagnosing disease in the body also.

I use needles and my hands to unlock your body’s ability to heal itself. These help to increase blood flow, decrease inflammation + pain, and regulate your body’s immune response.

I also guide clients on what steps they need to take in order to allow for healing to happen. These steps may include lifestyle and dietary modifications or meditation to re-establish the mind-body connection.

I provide solutions to relieve discomfort, so that my clients are able to live a more fruitful life.

Who can I help?

I help patients who are struggling to heal or function from:
• traumatic accidents
• injuries from living an active lifestyle
• repetitive stress (computer or physical work, prolonged standing/sitting)
• stress
• pregnancy
• hormonal imbalances (migraines, fertility, menopause)

I am a big believer that our bodies are resilient and I’ve devoted myself to helping people uncover their healing potential.

Allie Kolapak

Registered Massage Therapist

Allie was a competitive cheerleader for 6 years and knows first-hand the importance of self-care in our day to day lives. Allie’s love for cheerleading didn’t stop when she retired. In her spare time, she coaches tumbling. This allows her to share her love of cheerleading to the young minds that will grow within the sport and she has come to love the passion, energy, hard work and togetherness that it provides them. Encouraging and inspiring young athletes to work their hardest and develop their athletic mindset.

Allie uses her past experience as an athlete to know where aches and pains can originate from, everything in the body is connected some how and in some way. She uses her knowledge to eliminate aches and pains from the source and not just where it is felt.

Why and how did I become interested in Massage Therapy?

Allie is skilled to help assist with a wide scope of massage therapy needs and provides her clients with the information they need to be educated about their bodies. She’s had a wide variety of clinical experience ranging from acquired brain injuries, hospice care, athletic performance, weekend warriors and office corporate workers. Allie is constantly wanting to learn new things, she takes every treatment and learns from the aches and pains of all clients. She thrives on helping clients become their healthiest self in their day to day lives. Allie has furthered her knowledge of massage by taking additional courses including cupping massage and hot stone massage.

As a cheerleader, my very first coach was in the process of writing her massage therapy board exams and during practice she noticed that as a I was moving more to one side. She did an assessment and it appeared I had some muscles that were so tight that were pulling the curvature of my spine to one side!

With her being able to identify this just by watching my movements was enlightening, and I wanted to be able to see or feel and identify an issue that will help others.

Being able to utilize massage therapy as a multi sport athlete had a huge impact on my career in my own athletic career, whether it be a bad hit in field hockey, landing on my pole-vault pole or throwing someone in the air and catching their entire body weight. Massage was my go to therapy to help me stay active.

Work and life can bring on a lot of stress and taking care of your health will help you manage this stress. Allie will ensure to provide clients with specific personalized treatment plans that benefit each client to become the healthiest version of themselves.

Allie can go over various home exercises that can help benefit everyday living. She modifies the treatments to match the client’s progressing ability.

Christina Hennelly

Yoga Teacher

I have devoted over 15 years to the study and practice of yoga. After my brain injury in 2012, I discovered the powerful influence that yoga had in my recovery. Yoga allowed me to go at my own pace with a unique focus on my injury and symptoms. The very nature of yoga became a powerful healing agent in my recovery.

The curative properties of yoga was so inspiring that I decided to dedicate my career to advancing the well-being and health of the Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) community. I have combined my expertise in yoga, neuro-rehabilitation and psychology to bring a unique style of therapeutic yoga to my clients.

I am a busy mom who loves nature and conjuring up creative ways to have fun with my son! Since my brain injury, I have completed my advanced neuro-rehabilitation certificate at Brock University and currently pursuing my master’s degree at the University of Waterloo. My focus of study is centered around repeated acquired brain injury in women. I am an active board member for the Brain Injury Association of Waterloo-Wellington and I work as a Peer Support Navigator for brain injury survivors in the Region of Waterloo. I am an intern at a local women’s crisis centre where I teach yoga classes a few times a week.

Specializing in restorative yoga, biomechanically-sound flow, and guided meditation – this yoga is gentle and is well suited for people with brain injury and trauma.

Thoughtful emphasis of proper alignment, modifications and breath are made available for students, so that all can reach their potential. My clients report an increased quality of life, heightened function, stamina, and overall emotional well-being.

Who can I help?

I create yoga programs to help those who’ve suffered a brain injury with stress-management, increasing focus, and incorporating physical activity.

My classes are designed to improve your strength, balance, and focus, and reduce stress, while creating peace in a life that may be chaotic after a brain injury. Since no two brain injuries are alike, I will customize a program that is specifically for you.

People experiencing anxiety, trauma, depression also find my yoga instruction to be beneficial.

I am known for my authentic, non-judgmental teaching style and compassion-centered values. I help you discover that problems and pain are just mechanisms to remind you to be aware. Struggles become tools for awareness, not defeat.

I want to be able to nurture empowerment and resilience. Yoga is more than just stretching and awkward poses. It’s about learning to incorporate breath in order to increase your focus, balance, and muscle strength. The powerful tool of meditation can help to quiet the mind and even create beneficial neuroplasticity.

Crystal-Lee Olson | MA, ACC

Transformational Coach

Crystal-Lee is passionate about working with individuals on mindset, self-care, and goal setting.

As a leader in the corporate landscape, she has a history of achieving high levels of success and profitable results in sales, business development, supply chain, and project implementation. Crystal-Lee has earned a Masters in Leadership, through the study of business leadership, psychology and employee engagement.

She is gifted with the ability to identify the areas of improvement and facilitate the most effective solutions that nurture massive action and impact.

After 15 years of climbing the corporate ladder, she has decided to follow her passion for serving others in achieving their dreams.

Crystal-Lee is an accredited coach through the International Coaching Federation (ICF), which is the governing body for the code of conduct and ethical practices in the coaching industry.

Who can I help?

We have a choice to live life by design or by default, and we are far more capable than we realize.

There are a variety of coaching approaches however there are common principles that are present within the coaching process which are awareness, accountability, planning, commitment, and action.

Working with Crystal-Lee will improve your self-awareness and confidence in discovering and sharing your abilities and gifts.

During her research and studies, coaching has been identified as an effective strategy to develop and improve individual and organizational performance.

The training she took is based on more than 40 years of study and research of the most successful people on the planet.

What she discovered is that there is an amazing, reliable, and repeatable system for how to turn your dreams and goals into reality.

Suzanne Kim

Clinic Assistant | Client Care