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  • Andy Schmalz DO(MP), CAT(C)

    Osteopathic Practitioner

    Andy Schmalz is an osteopathic manual practitioner and certified athletic therapist. He began his education at the University of Western Ontario completing a BA in Kinesiology, graduating in 2001. He then completed a diploma in Sports Medicine at Sheridan College in 2004, earning the Michelle Kukta Memorial Scholarship due to his strong dedication to academics, family and friends. Lastly in the fall of 2016 Andy successfully defended his thesis at the Canadian college of Osteopathy to complete his DO(MP) credential and was awarded the Louisa Burns Award for the strength of his thesis and it’s contribution to basic research in the field of Osteopathy.

    EXPERIENCE MATTERS

    Andy has been in clinical practice since 2004 and has earned a reputation as a compassionate and skilled therapist. He also lectured full time at McMaster University from 2007-2014, strengthening his communication and lecturing skills and winning a McMaster Student Union “Excellence in Teaching” award. A lifelong learner, Andy combines his formal education with his life experiences in his rehabilitation approach. He synthesizes concepts in energy medicine, nutrition, and environmental influences with traditional therapeutic concepts to provide a thorough rehabilitation to fit each person’s unique needs.

  • Dan Bosy B.Sc. (P.T.), Dip. Manip. P.T.

    Registered Physiotherapist
    Intermediate Myofascial Release Practitioner

    Dan uses a comprehensive assessment approach evaluating the whole person to determine all factors that are involved in an injury. A treatment plan is then developed utilizing specific exercises, advanced manual therapy and myofascial release to help his clients recover, reach their goals, and return to activity.

    DAN'S BACKGROUND

    Dan Bosy is a Registered Physiotherapist specializing in Orthopaedic Physiotherapy. He obtained a Bachelor of Science with Honours degree in Life Sciences from Queen's University prior to receiving his Bachelor of Science degree in Physical Therapy from the University of Western Ontario in 1997. He has completed a Certificate in Intermediate Manual and Manipulative Physiotherapy in April of 2002. In November 2006, he received his Diploma in Manipulative Physiotherapy. In June 2014, he began taking courses in Myofascial Release with John F. Barnes. He uses this treatment approach to help people recover more fully from their physical ailments.

    Dan has been practising physiotherapy for over 25 years serving the communities of Oakville, Mississauga, and Burlington. He worked at an interdisciplinary pain rehabilitation program for 17 years treating patients suffering from chronic pain and chronic pain syndromes. Every patient that participated in this program had seen at least one other health practitioner and failed to improve. He was the primary author of An Interdisciplinary Pain Rehabilitation Programme: Description and Evaluation of Outcomes".

    TO READ MORE ON DAN'S JOURNEY, CLICK HERE.

  • Felicia Assenza

    Naturopathic Doctor

    Felicia is a Naturopathic Doctor whose own healthcare experiences lead her to discover the benefits of naturopathic medicine. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in 2013 at McMaster University, majoring in Biology & Psychology and completed an Honours thesis in behavioural neuroscience, investigating emotional regulation and mood disorders in adolescents. She then went on to earn her Doctor of Naturopathy degree at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine in Toronto. In 2017, in her 4th year of post-graduate study, she completed a clinical internship at the Robert Schad Naturopathic Clinic, which included a pediatric-focused shift, a placement in the Queen West Community Health Centre, as well as a global clinical preceptorship in India.

    FELICIA'S VISION

    Felicia aims to share knowledge and experiences gained on her own journey to help others on their health journeys. Gentle curiosity guides her practice and much time is spent in visits exploring symptoms and making connections to discover their root cause. Nutritional and lifestyle counseling are an important part of every treatment. Other tools Felicia uses to help ease symptoms and guide the healing process may include: acupuncture, botanical/plant medicine, homeopathy, and hydrotherapy. She also loves food and gardening and believes both are among the most powerful medicines.

  • Angelika Baum

    Belief Change and Relationship Coach

    Angelika has been a belief change and relationship coach for 15 years. She works with individuals and with couples. In her individual sessions, she focusses on working with the subconscious mind, understanding the emotional and mental component of physical issues, changing limiting beliefs, releasing emotions and healing relationships. She especially enjoys helping couples to create fulfilling relationships. Combining her own life experiences with continuous studies, Angelika has achieved a reputation as an experienced coach. For further information and testimonials, please go to Angelika's website.

    A LONG JOURNEY

    In 2004, Angelika discovered Reiki. She began to practice Meditation and Kundalini Yoga and to study many different holistic therapies, among them Hypnosis for a variety of issues including Fertility Issues and Hypnosis for Birth. Other trainings she has taken were Diabetes Motivational Coaching, NLP, Reiki, Acupressure Massage, Acupuncture, EFT, PSYCH-K®, Holoenergetics, Shadowenergetics and IFS-Inspired Coaching. She has taken coaching training with CTI (co-active coaching) and CRR Global for ORSC (Organization and Relationship Systems Coaching).

    SINCE 2016

    In the last six years, her focus has been on individual as well as couples coaching. In 2016, Angelika became a Certified Grief Recovery Specialist. Since 2016, she has been incorporating Gottman Techniques for couples in her coaching work. In June 2017, she completed the Gottman Seven Principles Leader Training in order to teach workshops for couples. In 2018, she added IFS-Inspired Coaching to her skills. She is also honoured to have become the first certified instructor to teach the Shadow Energetics workshop in 2016, a program developed by shadow expert Darryl Gurney. This program helps to make the unconscious conscious and to truly love yourself and others unconditionally. As a workshop participant you learn how to change your beliefs, release emotions and understand and shift why other people trigger you.

Felicia Biography

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Felicia Assenza ND, BSc.

Naturopathic Doctor

Felicia is a Naturopathic Doctor whose own healthcare experiences lead her to discover the benefits of naturopathic medicine. She earned her Bachelor of Science degree in 2013 at McMaster University, majoring in Biology & Psychology and completed an Honours thesis in behavioural neuroscience, investigating emotional regulation and mood disorders in adolescents. She then went on to earn her Doctor of Naturopathy degree at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine in Toronto. In 2017, in her 4th year of post-graduate study, she completed a clinical internship at the Robert Schad Naturopathic Clinic, which included a pediatric-focused shift, a placement in the Queen West Community Health Centre, as well as a global clinical preceptorship in India.

Felicia’s Vision

Felicia aims to share knowledge and experiences gained on her own journey to help others on their health journeys. Gentle curiosity guides her practice and much time is spent in visits exploring symptoms and making connections to discover their root cause. Nutritional and lifestyle counseling are an important part of every treatment. Other tools Felicia uses to help ease symptoms and guide the healing process may include: acupuncture, botanical/plant medicine, homeopathy, and hydrotherapy. She also loves food and gardening and believes both are among the most powerful medicines.

 

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Dan Bosy B.Sc. (P.T.), Dip. Manip. P.T.
Registered Physiotherapist
Intermediate Myofascial Release Therapist

Dan’s Physiotherapy Journey

Dan grew up a very active kid playing soccer, hockey, tennis, and fast-pitch softball in addition to school activities like cross-country running and volleyball. As a result, he had a number of injuries which put him in contact with physiotherapists. Injuries to his neck, shoulder and elbow all required treatment for prolonged periods of time. One physiotherapist in Kingston, Ontario, Martin Blazer, led him into physiotherapy school.

While in physiotherapy school at UWO, Dan was hit by a car as a pedestrian and suffered a back injury that required further therapy and helped shape the method of treatment used in the early part of his career. The back injury responded to repeated movements, in particular, extension and repeated movements were part of the McKenzie style of treatment called Mechanical Diagnosis and Therapy (MDT). This method was helpful in establishing appropriate exercises particularly for a physiotherapist that was a little wet behind the ears. The problem was it did not help enough people, especially ones suffering with long term or chronic pain, which was the main patient population Dan treated from 2000 to 2017 at Health Recovery Clinic in Mississauga.

The outpatient orthopaedic physiotherapy environment in Ontario at the turn of the Millennium was such that physiotherapists treated with exercises, modalities, MDT, manual therapy, or a combination. Within 4 years of graduating physiotherapy school, Dan had worked his way through the manual therapy courses but did not feel he was ready to challenge the first manual and manipulative physiotherapy exam. So he took a preparation course taught mainly by Dana Clark and Heather Gillis which increased his knowledge and skills, helping him to pass the Certificate Exam in April 2002. The next step was to learn spinal manipulation and challenge the Diploma exam. The biggest struggle was finding enough patients to practise on given that very few patients were being seen who could have spinal manipulations. It was so difficult that Dan thought he might have to leave Health Recovery Clinic to be able to pass the exam. However, in the fall of 2006 he passed the Diploma of Advanced Manual and Manipulative Physiotherapy.

Dan continued to build on his knowledge by reading articles, taking courses and attending conferences. His method of practise did not change much over the course of the next 8 years. In 2014, he decided it was time to take another course on fascia (the connective tissue of the body) because the techniques he had learned were not particularly effective. So, he looked into John Barnes’ Myofascial Release (MFR) and while several colleagues did not really give favourable reviews, he thought he would see for himself. The first course, Myofascial Release I, was a structural course which laid the foundation for the philosophy of treatment. So, coming out of the course he thought he would use the structural treatment and see how the results compared to what he had been doing. The surprise was that the treatments were more effective than anything he had done in the past and he did not have to manipulate anywhere near as many patients to get these results! Why put the joints through the stress of a manipulation to achieve the same results when it’s not needed!?

On his next MFR course he had a more profound and eye-opening experience that convinced him that there was a whole lot more to this way of treatment than he could have ever imagined. This happened when they were doing a technique to release the upper part of the jaw – the maxilla. His partner had her hand in his mouth exerting gentle pressure when he started to laugh. She pulled her hand out and he stopped laughing. She thought something was wrong, but he assured her that it felt good. So, once again she started to work on his maxilla. Again, he started laughing but after a few minutes he stopped and he could feel his body releasing. By the end, he was tingling from his ribs to thighs down through the pelvis, his hands and feet were shaking and he had difficulty moving. It was like his whole body had been sensitized and he could feel the air touching his skin and every single hair on his body. One of the assistant instructors, Dawn, helped him into the recovery position and then to sitting while John continued to teach. When they partnered up for the next technique, Dawn told him that doing the treatment would help to “ground” him and further the recovery. His hands were visibly vibrating and his partner told him that it was “energizing.” Over the course of the next 12 hours, the tingling through his body settled and some of the more acute health issues that he was experiencing at the time of the course when into remission. Since that time, his hands continue vibrate during treatment with MFR.

The Myofascial Unwinding course was even more of an eye-opener. After having been through an unwinding on the previous course, he wanted to learn how he could help his patients achieve the same results. It was surprising how easy it was to teach anyone how to do it. Within the first day, everyone on the course was experiencing things – often pain, emotions, and memories – that we have carried through our lives and only healed on a superficial level. He experienced and re-experienced several significant events in his life, including the pain for previous injuries, memories of having surgery and difficulties with expelling the intubation tubes out of his throat from surgeries and other procedures. Going through these experiences helped him to heal on a more complete level that John Barnes calls “authentic healing.”

Dan is on his journey to “authentic healing.”

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