Our Services

Chiropractic Care is traditionally known for treating back pain, neck pain and headaches. In addition to these classical ailments, chiropractic is further developing improvements with overall body function such as grip strength, balance and core strength activation. Corrective adjustments will create greater coordination within the body, calm the nerve system and allow your spine to adapt to the stresses of life.

We will also support you through education and teaching you how best to manage your own health challenges.

Adjustments can be delivered in many different ways. Depending on your comfort level and preference and supported with the therapist's discretion of best practices; Manual, Instrument , Soft tissue and Drop Table Assisted adjustments are all available.

The initial consultation will address your primary concerns, health history and concomitant treatments you may be receiving.

If we feel we can help you, a Bio-Structural exam will be performed to evaluate your spine and nerve system, screen for potential complications and create a full report of your current health status.

Given the exam results, we will proceed with one or two basic adjustments to begin your course of care. Both Dr. Millman and Dr. Maybank are highly trained with competent confidence and experience in over eight different chiropractic techniques to best suit your needs. Consequently, your spine will be addressed with an in-depth and tailored approach to best suit your comfort level and optimise outcome.

Custom made orthotics are designed to support your body and lifestyle from the ground up.

Your session begins with a 20 minute consultation. Dr. Maybank or Dr. Millman will talk to you about your symptoms and goals, assess your spine and lower extremities, and complete a biomechanical evaluation of your feet using Foot Levelers Custom Orthotics and take a 3D scan of your feet.

Your assessment will be sent to Foot Levelers, where experienced lab technicians will craft your custom-made orthotics designed just for your feet. Your orthotics can be made for specific types of footwear, including walking shoes, athletic shoes, dress shoes, sandals and flip flops and more.

Common conditions relieved by custom-made foot orthotics:

Foot and ankle pain

Plantar fasciitis

Bunions

Hammer toes

Arch and Heel pain

Leg and Knee pain

IT band syndrome

Sacroiliac syndrome

Hip and spinal pain

Our society is experiencing a sharp increase in the number of people who suffer from complex, chronic diseases, such as diabetes, heart disease, cancer, mental illness, and autoimmune disorders like rheumatoid arthritis. The system of medicine practiced by most physicians is oriented toward acute care, the diagnosis and treatment of trauma or illness that is of short duration and in need of urgent care, such as a heart attack or a broken leg. Physicians apply specific, prescribed treatments such as drugs or surgery that aim to treat the immediate problem or symptom. Western Medicine made huge strides forward 100+ years ago when funding from large foundations was switched to exclusively supporting that form of medical education. At the time, the predominant type of illnesses were infectious diseases, which responded very well to silver bullet intervention.

Unfortunately, the acute-care approach to medicine is ill-equipped to address complex, chronic diseases. In most cases, the model does not take into account the unique genetic makeup of each individual and does not allow time for exploring the aspects of today’s lifestyle that have a direct influence on the rise in chronic disease in modern Western society; critical environmental factors such as stress, diet, and exposure to toxins. As a naturopathic physician practicing in BC, Dr. Heald is authorized to prescribe pharmaceuticals as needed while addressing lifestyle factors.

Functional Medicine is a different approach, with methodology and tools specifically designed to prevent and treat chronic diseases. By shifting the traditional disease-centred focus of medical practice to a more patient-centred approach, Functional Medicine addresses the whole person, not just an isolated set of symptoms. Functional Medicine practitioners spend time with their patients, listening to their histories and looking at the interactions among genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors that can influence long-term health and complex, chronic disease. In this way, Functional Medicine supports the unique expression of health and vitality for each individual. It switches the balance of responsibility for wellness from the provider of care to the beneficiary (you, the patient!).

Naturopathic Medicine begins with a scientific approach to understanding the human body and employs the body’s inert ability to heal itself using medicines found in nature to initiate the process.

Primum non nocere | First, do no harm

This is part of an oath that all doctors take. Having a solid understanding of the human body, dis-ease and in-depth knowledge of the proposed treatment is essential. Naturopathic Doctors must be educated at accredited Medical Schools (see www.cnme.org) and continue to study throughout their careers.

Vis Medicatrix Naturae | The healing power of nature

The human body is magical in its ability to regenerate. The cause of illness or obstacle to cure must be determined and removed. During the healing process, natural substances such as vitamins, minerals and herbs are used to correct imbalances.

Tollem causum | Treat the underlying cause

Treating symptoms is necessary to provide comfort, but without addressing the cause, the disease process will continue and manifest in another way. Turning up the volume on the radio only masks the rattle in the engine for so long.

Tollem totale | Treat the whole person

Physical symptoms can be aggravated or caused by social or emotional stresses, and emotional upset can have very physical causes. To obtain wellness, consideration must be given to all components of an individual.

Docere | Teacher

The Latin derivation of doctor translates to teacher. Giving a person an understanding of illness and wellness empowers them to make the changes necessary to live healthfully.

Massage is the focused on treating the soft tissues of the body. These include the muscles, tendons, ligaments, connective tissues, and fascia throughout your body. As daily stresses accumulate, this can put an increased burden on the soft tissues of your body, which will lead to discomfort and eventually pain.

Massage will help alleviate discomfort and help your body deal with these daily stressors more effectively. Our massage therapists use a variety of techniques that is best suited to you and your condition.

Whether you're looking to enhance physical function, support recovery from an injury, or simply unwind, a massage offers a gentle, natural approach that supports your body's own healing journey.

Acupuncture is the stimulation of significant points of the body with sterile, single-use needles. They are used to benefit circulation, reduce inflammation, relax muscles, trigger the release of endorphins and endogenous painkillers, regulate hormones and soothe the central nervous system. These effects help the body to coordinate it's innate healing response without undesired side effects.

Adjunct therapies may include acupressure, photobiomodulation, cupping, massage, range of motion exercises, guasha, moxibustion, TDP heat therapy, supplement recommendation, lifestyle modification, and exercise instruction.

Given acupuncture's holistic mode of action, it's applicable to an incredibly broad range of conditions including: pain, limited movement, stress/emotional, digestive, skin conditions, sense organs, internal organs, blood pressure, weight management, smoking cessation and many more.

Social workers approach counselling from the viewpoint that you are the expert on your own life. We are here to counsel, to guide, to question, to poke and prod, and ultimately to help you take ownership over your own life.

Our counsellors practice from a place of non-judgement and deeply believe that helping their clients find HOPE is the first step towards growth and change.

We are all at different points on our healing journeys. Sometimes we just need a reminder of the internal and community resources we already have available, a few new tools to work with, and a reminder that we are going to be okay.

Social Work approach to practice is rooted in a number of theoretical perspectives and models, including:

Humanistic Counselling

Somatic Counselling

Mindfulness-based Therapy

Systemic Therapy

Nature-based Therapy

Strengths-based models

Reconnection Therapy is rooted in somatic counselling and is about allowing your truth and experience to be witnessed. Foundations are placed between the therapist and client, to create a grounded, safe, honoring, and supported relationship. You are the author of your life, and in that, you are also the one who knows the ways through it. I will ask questions, I may lead visualizations/meditations, and... these are all from a place rooted in trust of You, and that what you need to move forward, heal etc. is within you. Sometimes as humans, we need support, questions, guidance, offerings of perspective... and when it comes down to it, being witnessed, and seen, and honoured, often has the potential to spontaneously unfurl and unfold more of self. And when/where hooks, pain, trauma, confusion etc. arise, an array of support gets intuitively woven between you and the therapist, to free the stuck/blocked energy, and allow the knowings, learnings, and gifts that surface, to flow into your life, and be (re)integrated into who You are. Techniques such as Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT), Emotional Release Therapy (ERT), Flower Essence Therapy (FET), Aromatherapy, Herbal Medicine, Self Retrieval... may be used along the way. Being truly seen is one of the most precious gifts and experiences as a human.

May you be graced with that opportunity, in both the witness and in the witnessing.

Hakomi Mindful Somatic Psychology offers an elegant, comprehensive, and uniquely effective approach to psychotherapy, growth and change. Originated by Ron Kurtz in the early 1980s, Hakomi integrates Eastern principles of nonviolence and mindfulness with a comprehensive and experiential body-centered methodology. The Hakomi Institute has further developed these innovative techniques in response to ongoing discoveries in neuroscience and other fields related to our work.

For 40 years, Hakomi has pioneered the psychodynamic use of mindfulness in the therapeutic process. Instead of using mindfulness solely as an adjunct to therapy, a significant portion of each Hakomi session is conducted with the client in mindfulness. This profoundly deepens the client’s ability to recognize and work with emotionally-charged psychological material.

Hakomi practitioners use the body as a map of the psyche – a door that can be gently opened to surface clients’ implicit memories and reveal their entire unconscious belief system. The body’s structures and habitual patterns, such as gestures and posture, become powerful indicators that provide subtle access routes to evocative unconscious core material.

Hakomi’s integration of mindfulness and somatics creates an experiential route to the precise psychological core material at the root of clients’ unwanted psychological patterns and behavior. This, deepens therapy beyond insight and words, allowing us to access the unconscious “blueprints” and early experiences that invisibly guide our clients’ lives, relationships, and self-perceptions.

Attachment issues and the experiences that created them are often strong components of core material, and Hakomi is particularly effective in working with these. When unconscious, this hidden core material creates projections, conflict and disharmony in our relationships and inner lives. Once conscious and directly experienced, these patterns are available for transformation and re-integration.

Hakomi is paradoxically powerful: it is gentle and nonviolent, yet yields dramatic and rapid results. Its highly experiential approach evokes a deep “felt sense” that allows clients to take genuine ownership of their core material, its transformation, and resulting changes. Hakomi embraces Frieda Fromm Reichman’s belief that “the patient needs an experience, not an explanation.”

The healing relationship is also central to Hakomi. Although research has shown that the practitioner’s inner state is one of the most significant factors impacting therapeutic success, few healing methods address the practitioner’s inner development in sufficient depth. By intentionally shifting into expanded states of consciousness like mindfulness and loving presence, Hakomi practitioners develop an exquisite sensitivity and attunement to others. Hakomi training facilitates the emergence of the “essence” of the practitioner, allowing us to track deeper levels conscious and unconscious material, communicate about it more effectively, reduce client resistance and create a deeper sense of safety and connection with ourselves and others.

Current neuroscience research has confirmed the basis for many foundational aspects of Hakomi, including the effectiveness of mindfulness, loving presence, empathic attunement, limbic resonance, and memory reconsolidation, As we work with core developmental trauma, Hakomi provides what Ron Kurtz called the “missing experience”, a deep and transformational process for the client. This profoundly moving experience heals developmental trauma by rewiring neural pathways and reconsolidating implicit memories in ways that can support the individual to open to new and more satisfying experiences.

Hakomi can be combined with a wide spectrum of therapeutic approaches. It’s effective for both brief and long-term therapy in a wide range of applications including working with individuals, couples, groups and organizations. Coaches, spiritual counsellors, bodyworkers, educators and other helping professionals have also found Hakomi’s principles and practices a useful adjunct to their work.

Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy can help the client's system with deep healing processes. This therapy has been incredibly successful in assisting clients with different kinds of trauma (physical, mental, emotional) and long-term patterns (physical, behavioural patterns). BCST is an amazing tool in the path towards embodiment and grounding.

​Sometimes pain is simply a result of long-held patterns that have been locked in the tissues and, at the right time, these patterns can be released. We believe that with the right, gentle, hands-on treatment, health can begin to restore itself and symptoms may start to dissipate.

Therapeutic Facial Massage combines gentle massage and facial manipulation to promote skin health and relaxation. It relieves tension, improves circulation, and enhances skin tone, providing a rejuvenating experience for both body and mind.

Phytotherapy, more commonly known as herbalism, herbal medicine, or plant-based medicine, is the use of medicinal plant and herbs to address certain ailments and support the healing process.

What does a Phytotherapist / Medical Herbalist do?

A medical herbalist is someone who has had extensive training over a period of years learning the complexities of herbs, and how they work in the body. Herbal medicine has been around for thousands of years and according to the World Health Organization, 75% of the world's populations are still using herbs for basic healthcare needs.

A medical herbalist will prepare customized formulas tailored to an individual, focusing on whole-body healing. Herbal preparations are made from the seeds, flowers, leaves, bark, and roots and administered in many forms. The most popular being herbal infusions (tisanes/teas), tinctures (alcohol-based extracts), capsules, creams or salves.

Homeopathy is a natural and safe medicinal therapy that is used worldwide today. Homeopathic treatment is a holistic approach to stimulating your body’s own natural ability to restore health both mentally and physically. by focusing on an individual’s unique symptoms, homeopathy can treat the whole person and not just the disease. This is the difference between conventional medicine and homeopathy.

Homeopathic medicines are specially prepared natural animal, vegetable or mineral substances that work by stimulating the body to overcome disease.

Homeopathic “nano-medicines” are prepared in such small doses that no toxic effect is produced as long as used properly.

Hypnotherapy is a method that induces deep relaxation and focused concentration to address issues like stress, anxiety, and addiction. Through guided sessions, individuals enter a receptive state where positive changes in behavior and mindset can occur. It's safe, non-invasive, and promotes personal growth and wellness.

This coaching program is designed to help you reconnect with yourself by creating change in your current routine and making room for the lifestyle you want to live. Our culture dictates that hard work and sacrifice lead to success, leaving little room for rest and enjoyment of life. You will learned through implementing these practices in your own life that the clarity we seek comes from balanced well-being, and that's something that we've been ignoring for far too long.

​It's time to hit the reset button and create the life you truly want to live.

Each session is a unique blend of modalities including weaving sound frequencies with crystal bowls, drums, Gongs, Chimes, rattles & voice, along with Thai massage, hands on intuitive energy healing & Reiki.

The combination of techniques used, work to invite more flow, realignment of self, clarity in life and re-connection with one’s essence.

Sound Healing works with all aspects of one’s being – spiritual, emotional, mental, and physical – working at a cellular level to bring back into harmony that which is out of tune.

Sound therapy facilitates shifts in brainwave state via entrainment, the synchronisation of brainwaves to sound frequencies. This makes it possible to down-shift from the normal Beta state (alert consciousness), through the Alpha state (relaxed consciousness), into Theta states (the meditative state), and to even reach Delta states (sleep, where natural healing occurs). Reaching these states of awareness stimulates emotional and physical release of trauma (energies of stagnation and dis-ease), which in turn promote natural healing. A sound bath feels like a spa treatment for your soul. Bathing in the frequencies of healing sounds is like getting a massage for your mind, body, and spirit.

Reiki is a well-known Japanese healing technique used to enhance vitality, move and clear energy and promote living a more balanced life. It includes hands-on healing as well as energy field healing. Energy work restores harmony to the client's energy field and may be experienced as relaxing, restorative, refreshing, or invigorating.

We spend at least a third of our day working, and if we’re not enjoying our work it can have a negative effect on our physical, mental and emotional well-being. Saying ‘Yes’ when you really want to say ‘No’ can have a huge impact on your energy levels and can lead to stress overload and burnout. We all want to feel like we are contributing and often we don’t get to express the fullness of who we are which can feel like there is something missing in our life. Even if we have carved out a career we like and we’re on our way to success, we can get roadblocked. This can show up in the form of feeling like you’ve hit a wall, something changes that you had no control over, and you persist anyway continuing to do what you’ve always done confused about what else you can do. Sometimes it is just :me to move on and you’re afraid to go because you don’t know what else you want to do. Understanding how your energy works and how you’re uniquely designed to contribute so that work can be fulfilling is what I can help you with using the tools and techniques of BG5 – Human Design for Career & Business.

BG5 provides a blueprint for our true nature and how we’ve been nurtured in our lives, often away from who we really are. We get distracted by our shadows and fears and the conditioning we’ve received from well-meaning family, friends, and society. We’ve forgotten who we are because the systems we have created to help us survive demand that we play a specific role in them that pulls out of us only what the system needs with no concern for our individual desires. This is how the hidden mechanics of groups work and BG5 makes us aware of how this is affecting us so we can take advantage of it instead of being taken advantage of. I’ve learned how to set healthy boundaries and follow my own inner guidance system with the practical knowledge of BG5.

I’m passionate about helping others discover and connect with their authenticity and see how they might be getting tossed around in life so they can relax and watch the movie instead of getting caught up in the drama. I encourage each of us to ‘seek first to understand, then be understood’ by the people in our lives to create more respect, empathy, and support for how unique each of us is. When you understand your own design, you can see the complexity of how each of us does things differently (there are literally no two of us the same in 8 billion). Understanding the dynamics at play between individuals and within small and large groups is what I bring awareness to so that you can find a career that really fulfills you, doing what you are designed for regenerating your energy instead of burning yourself out.

Astrology is the study of the correlation between celestial objects and earthly events.

When the flow of the "Life Force Energy" is disrupted, weakened or blocked, health problems tend to occur. Imbalances can be caused from many situations occurring in our lives, such as: emotional or/and physical or/and chemical stressors and trauma.

Reiki is an excellent healing aid to combat physical, mental, emotional, chemical and spiritual issues of any kind and can give wonderful results, restoring harmonious balance to your health, well-being, vitality and quality of life.

Reiki allows for a state of deep relaxation and aids the body to release the stress and tension disrupting the life force energy (“Qi or Chi”). It accelerates the body's self-healing abilities and restorative processes of underlying acute and chronic problems, can help with regulatory processes and can also help relieve pain and symptoms, whereby removing energy blockages by reorganizing the energy flow, bringing the body back into balance and harmony. Reiki assists the body in cleansing itself from toxins and blockages and helps the body to rejuvenate as well as supporting the body's natural state eco-system/s and functions. Reiki raises the vibrational frequency of the body and helps with physical processes, spiritual growth and emotional clarity.

When we are relaxed, stress and interference-free, we are able to restore our natural ability to self-heal, evolve and thrive. Long term practice of whole-body Reiki can restore and replenish the general condition of the body. It can open the energy channels and this will allow the body to deal appropriately and naturally with stress, tension, pain, symptoms and build-up of toxins in the physical, emotional and spiritual body. When a person is in good health and homeostasis, continued regular Reiki sessions can furthermore increase the bodies innate built-in defenses and support further resilience and dynamic wellness.

A Reiki healing session can induce an extremely comfortable state of being that can bring alteration in the client’s consciousness. If also used as a complementary healing modality in conjunction with other natural holistic therapies and vitalistic lifestyle choices, Reiki can reinforce their effectiveness.

Reiki healing complements Eastern and Western medicine and everybody can benefit from it. It is known to be beneficial to the health of all ages and stages of life; women (even pregnant), men, and children and it is also excellent when used on animals, plants, water, etc. Reiki healing energy is a resource for use at any moment, anytime, anywhere for on-the-spot stress release, pain relief and revitalize energy flow.