My passion for alternative health began in my late teens with my own healing journey.  I was given a diagnosis by the medical profession for a condition that pharmaceuticals could not really treat.  Thus the journey to find other healing alternatives began.  My first foray into alternative medicine began by apprenticing with Carol McGrath,  a well-known Herbalist on Vancouver Island, for several years.  I learned the properties of western herbs, how to collect medicinal plants from nature and make them into medicines. 

In my late 20’s I had the great luck to discover Shiatsu Therapy.  I began to study with Master Tetsuro Saito in Toronto.  Tetsuro, also known as the forefather of Shiatsu in Canada, was sent by his Shiatsu masters in Japan to bring Shiatsu therapy to the West. He is also the creator of his own unique diagnostic system known as Shinso Shiatsu Therapy.   For the past 20 years, I have been practicing Shinso Shiatsu and continuing to study with Master Saito.

More recently I have completed schooling for Acupuncture Therapy.  I am a registered member of the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners and Acupuncturists of Ontario.  Adding Acupuncture and all the techniques that it includes, has been a perfect inclusion to my practice. 

It is my sincerest hope to help all those who come to my office have a better quality of health and well being in their lives.