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Meet Our Wellness Team

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Get to know our Wellness Team by seeing their pictures, reading their specializations, and viewing their schedule.

For more information about what we offer, visit our Services page or view the team’s schedule and availability by visiting our Booking page

Jeanette Kirschner
Holistic Wellness Coach, Certified BodyTalk Practitioner, Therapeutic Touch Practitioner, Therapeutic Lymphatic Technique

Hello, I’m Jeanette, a dedicated BodyTalk, Therapeutic Touch® and Holistic Lymphatic Drainage
Professional, with Inside Out Healing and Empowering Within, all focused on empowering YOU.

My personal journey, marked by challenges like a broken marriage, single parenting, and health
setbacks, fuels my commitment to guide others on a transformative path of healing and self-discovery.

Originally from Kelowna, I brought my personal experiences into a holistic approach when relocating to
Kaslo in 2021 with my life partner. Since 2017, I’ve been offering an integrated and transformative
approach as a Certified Recognized Therapeutic Touch® and BodyTalk Practitioner. With a rich
background in energy medicine, I specialize in releasing trauma, dismantling limiting beliefs, and
fostering balance, peace, and joy through personalized guidance.

Join me on a transformative journey towards clarity and self-awareness. Together, let’s work towards
helping you live the life you truly desire!

 

Email: insideoutheal@gmail.com

Phone: 250.215.4438

Booking: https://westkootenaywellness.janeapp.com/#/staff_member/50

Marissa Tonus
Registered Therapeutic Counsellor (Candidate)

Marissa is a Certified Relational Somatic Therapist and is currently in the last few weeks of her training as a Registered Therapeutic Counselling (RTC) Candidate. As such she is currently offering ‘pay what you can’ sessions until she graduates.

Marissa has completed 4 years of Undergraduate studies at Trent University, majoring in psychology and social work, including in depth studies in areas of Indigenous Studies, Philosophy, Sociology, and Feminism.

From 5 years of managing a community farm on Salt Spring Island Marissa brings her experience of the importance of land connection and community building, and experience of working with people from all over the world, in assisting community members connect to their authentic selves. Marissa has years of experience in leading talking circles, women circles, and meditation.

She is an avid meditator, and deeply understands the importance of walking our own authentic paths. She blends her life experience and studies to support people to understand larger systemic forces at play in our society and works alongside people, honouring each person’s own unique pace to make sense of their experiences and beliefs, connect to the bodies innate, ever-present wisdom and is a support to help people make the changes they want to see in their inner and outer worlds.

Somatic Therapy can look many different ways. It comes from the word “Soma” meaning “the body”. Somatic Therapy aims to bring awareness into the body and Marissa uses personalized guided meditations, gentle questioning and assists in an opening of the senses, including the 6th sense to do this. In somatic therapy we sometimes work with images, metaphors, movements and sounds; to unlock and transform our unique flow of energy in the body, restoring it to its natural state of self healing. Marissa works with each client’s unique way of processing, to help people heal from childhood trauma (big or small), mental, emotional and psychical ailments, and helps people to live a more authentic, connected life, with more safety and trust in themselves, and their environments.

Steve Brewster RCC, MACP
Registered Clinical Counsellor

Steve was born in Revelstoke and graduated from Mt. Sentinel in South Slocan. He is a “free range” Kootenay kid who recently returned to Nelson after decades at the Coast.

A grad of Notre Dame College in Nelson, then UBC, SFU, and Seattle University Steve also attended Western Washington University. His undergrad degree from UBC. Steve has a B.Ed. from SFU, an M.Ed. from UBC and a Masters in Counselling Psychology from City University of Seattle.

Steve has decades of professional employment experience as a Counsellor in Vancouver, Surrey and on Vancouver Island. He was a Department Head in Counselling at large I.B. Secondary School in Vancouver; he opened and an Alternate Schools, was a Head Teacher, has counselled in treatment facilities and in two Indigenous Programs. He has practiced Clinical Therapy in Vancouver, Surrey and Nanaimo.

His orientation is in Somatic Therapy; his grad thesiswas in Somatic Inverventions for Anxiety. He is eclectic and therefore negotiates with cients what modalities they feel might work. He is respectful and compassionate. He is a registered and insured Clinical Counsellor. He is a male advocate and a grandfather to four.

Email: brewster.steve@gmail.com

Phone: 604 817 1410

Jenny Moase, RMT
Registered Massage Therapist

Jenny is a recent graduate of Nelson’s rigorous 3000-hour RMT training program and is awaiting registration. She has had the fortune of working the 2023 season at Mountain Trek Health Reset Retreat in Ainsworth, renting a space at Vitality Health Centre in Nelson since Fall 2022 and has over 585 clinical hands-on hours. Within these spaces, she has had the opportunity to work with a wide variety of individuals.

Jenny has a strong desire for continued learning, especially when it comes to supporting whole body and being wellness and has been researching the field of health and wellness for over a decade. A fitness enthusiast, Jenny has a particular interest in postural health and balanced strength and agility.

Using a varied approach, Jenny’s focus is person-centered care, working closely with the client on their goals to ensure professional excellence in responsible care and serving the best interests of the client. She believes that connection leads to deeper healing and strives to keep an open and active line of communication to work as a team toward a common goal.

Above all, Jenny believes in listening to and honouring each person and their unique needs, creating a safe and supportive space to facilitate deep relaxation and wellness.

Qualifications:
Graduate of the Registered Massage Therapy (RMT) Program at Kootenay Columbia College of Integrative Health Sciences in Nelson, BC – 2023
(Currently awaiting registration)

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Email: jennymoase@gmail.com

Hannah Devries, RMT
Registered Massage Therapist

As a recent graduate of Kootenay Columbia College of Integrative Health Sciences Registered Massage Therapy program (August 2023), Hannah is currently awaiting her registration to be an RMT, and could not be more ecstatic to be working with the community since graduating. She has completed over 585 hours of hands-on massage with the community in the school’s Massage Clinic prior to graduating.

Hannah’s fascination with anatomy, mobility, and the nervous system began when she first discovered yoga, pilates and dance at a young age. At the age of 19 she completed her 200 hour Yoga Teacher Training Certification. Seven years later, she is an Experienced yoga teacher, having taught over 3000 hours of classes and multiple different trainings in Yin, Restorative and Vinyasa Yoga. She has always enjoyed creating a safe and soothing container for each class she offers. Hannah invites each student to arrive as they are in the moment, and to move their body organically. She actually never planned to teach yoga when signing up for her teacher training, but quickly fell in love with seeing her yoga students breathe into their body during class. She would witness her student’s become inspired by their body’s new abilities and watch them land in gratitude, playfulness and new-found self love at the end of each class. She enjoys sharing her knowledge with students and clients who are eager to learn more about the body!

Hannah began her studies in Registered Massage Therapy to craft a more one-on-one approach with clients to help them succeed in their personal goals in health, fitness, body-awareness and in supporting her clients in their journey to decreasing physical limitations and chronic pain. Through manual massage therapy, she has been able to help her client’s create tangible results and changes specific for their body and lifestyle. She does this through different techniques on the massage table, as well as offering a specific home care routine of exercises and stretches specific to the clients needs.

Hannah is passionate about working with postural limitations like Scoliosis, Kyphosis and Lordosis. Hannah has observed in her own journey that our sense of confidence and drive towards life can be wrapped up in our postural limitations. Through the treatment of these conditions we can unravel not only stress stored in the body, but increase our awareness of these areas, which in turn helps us to create a deeper connection with ourselves and our lives.

With her calm, strong and intuitive touch, Hannah creates a safe and supportive space for her clients to let go of stress and tension, and to connect with their own inner wisdom and resilience. She sees each person she works with as a unique individual, with their own needs, challenges, and stories. She takes the time to listen, hear, and understand each client’s own goals for their treatment.

Whether you are just beginning your journey to mobility, health and wellness, or have years of experience, Hannah is dedicated to supporting you and seeing you succeed and feel empowered in your body. Her ongoing studies and commitment to growth ensure that she brings fresh insights and compassion to each massage session, helping her client’s to deepen their experience and connect with their body.

Areas of Passion:
Fascial Restrictions and Myofascial Release

Swedish and Therapeutic Massage
Nervous System regulation

Scoliosis, Kyphosis, Thoracic Outlet Syndrome treatment

Mobility and liberation in movement and increasing range of motion
Empowerment through personal home-care routine.

Qualifications:
Graduate of the Registered Massage Therapy (RMT) Program at Kootenay Columbia College of Integrative Health Sciences in Nelson B.C. in 2023
(Currently awaiting registration)

200 Hour Experienced-Registered Yoga Teacher (E-RYT) with Christina Raskin in Vancouver B.C. in 2015

Usui Reiki Level 1 Certified

Social Media:

Email: HannahDevriesWellness@gmail.com
Instagram: @HannahDevriesWellness

Janel Halenko, RMT
Registered Massage Therapist

Janel’s lifelong pattern of seeking physically and mentally demanding experiences is exactly what led her to her career as a Registered Massage Therapist. Prior to Janel’s education at The West Coast College of Massage Therapy, she was involved in varsity cross-country running for York University in Toronto, worked the arduous job as a tree planter for eight years and was a forest fire fighter and camp medic for the BC Fire Center.

Inspired by the active community, Janel began her own business, The Little Spruce Massage, on Vancouver Island in 2021. She then took to the woods and treated tree planters during the 2022 season with Torrent Silviculture. She now works with people in the Nelson community, eager to enhance the lives of those seeking adventure and wellness.

In her practice, Janel is passionate and determined to explore exactly what is limiting her patients, causing pain and discomfort and will not waste any time in manipulating tissues and getting to the source. Janel’s treatments are very intentional. Every experience will be unlike the last, implementing techniques specific to individual need and desire. She works rhythmically and with the body in front of her, using a steady and firm hand. There is an intensity in which she treats, ideal for those looking to feel a difference in their bodies or to experience ongoing maintenance. Soreness may result the following day from treatment.

Janel has been all over Canada and is now calling Nelson home.  Nelson’s small and active community is what brought her here. When she is not working, she is still using her hands. She enjoys gardening, wood working, foraging, playing guitar, making crafts, going to the gym and running around with her dog, Muskie.

Anthony Spiegelberg, RMT
Clinic Owner & Director, Registered Massage Therapist

Having been involved in athletics his entire life and playing soccer competitively, Anthony has had his fair share of sport related injuries. Requiring countless hours of massage as an athlete gave him a great respect for what a Massage Therapist can offer to anyone recovering from an injury. This appreciation for the profession is what inspired him to become a Registered Massage Therapist.

Anthony is passionate about providing the highest quality of care for everyone he works with. He enjoys educating his clients about their body and how they can speed their recovery and prevent further injuries from happening. He does this by recommending a home care routine consisting of stretching and exercise to compliment the individual goals of each client.

When Anthony is not in the clinic he spends his time in the gym trying new workouts, playing recreational soccer or enjoying a variety of activities in the beautiful outdoor environment.

Having been involved in athletics his entire life and playing soccer competitively, Anthony has had his fair share of sport related injuries. Requiring countless hours of massage as an athlete gave him a great respect for what a Massage Therapist can offer to anyone recovering from an injury. This appreciation for the profession is what inspired him to become a Registered Massage Therapist.

Anthony is passionate about providing the highest quality of care for everyone he works with. He enjoys educating his clients about their body and how they can speed their recovery and prevent further injuries from happening. He does this by recommending a home care routine consisting of stretching and exercise to compliment the individual goals of each client.

When Anthony is not in the clinic he spends his time in the gym trying new workouts, playing recreational soccer or enjoying a variety of activities in the beautiful outdoor environment.

Areas of Focus

Sport related injuries
Injury prevention
Motor vehicle accidents
Chronic pain management

Qualifications

  Completed his Registered Massage Training at Vancouver College of Massage Therapy in 2015

Booking Information

Direct Phone Number: 236.997.9494

Email Address: spiegelbergrmt@gmail.com
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Anja Jaskolski
Early Trauma Integration & Jikiden Reiki Practitioner

Anja is a dedicated Trauma Integration (IoPT) and Jikiden Reiki practitioner from Germany, supporting individuals and families with online and in person sessions.

Her client-centred and cause-oriented approach combines trauma integration with nature energy healing. This promotes relief from acute or chronic psychological and physical ailments through uncovering underlaying unconscious emotional inner conflicts, deep restorative relaxation, nervous system regulation, release and integration of deeply stored stress, suppressed feelings and pain.

Anja came to her offering through her own healing journey. Reiki and IoPT have been after years of exploration the two modalities that brought a profound relief and shift in her life. She sees it as her purpose to share what helped her the most with others and finds a lot of joy in supporting her clients. She takes great care to ensure that the room is as safe and comfortable as possible.

IoPT (Identityoriented Psychotrauma Theory) and its method, the Intention Method, can support anyone who feels that their life does not fully reflect their values, yearnings, and potential. In particular, IoPT helps to understand, process and integrate the often-overlooked impact that early childhood and transgenerational trauma has on our identity, our relationships, our mental and physical health, our ability to know and get what we want, and on our capacity to express ourselves in life-affirming ways.

Jikiden Reiki is the authentic Japanese Reiki before any Western influence. It is deeply connected with Japanese culture, the love and reverence for nature and the simplicity and dedication of traditional practice. Reiki means ‘universal life force energy’ or ‘nature energy’ and is a completely natural, safe and gentle hands on energy healing technique that helps us to find deep relaxation, rest and balance and to reconnect with our natural essence. It improves our body, mind and spirit through strengthening our innate self-healing abilities.

For more information please see the service page “Jikiden Reiki”.

Qualifications

 

E-Mail: connect@anjajaskolski.com

Instagram: hands.on.our.hearts.healing
Facebook: Anja Jaskolski – Trauma Integration & Jikiden Reiki

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Helena Bryn-McLeod, BA, BEd, MA, CCC
Canadian Certified Counsellor

A graduate of Yorkville University’s MA in Counselling Psychology, Helena is passionate about working with clients of all ages, backgrounds, and genders through a socially just and culturally responsive lens. Primarily experienced in Narrative and Jungian methodologies, Helena fosters her clients’ development of self-compassion, working with them to find meaning and belonging in their relationships with self and others. Her background as an educator and school counsellor gives her a particular ability to relate to children and teenagers.

Telling your story safely is a vital step on the path of self-discovery. Helena strives to provide a therapeutic relationship where you can express yourself naturally in time. She works to understand what you’ve been through, ask questions that guide you in your chosen direction, and optimize your learning journey.
Helena is grateful to live and work on Sinixt territory.

 

Areas of focus:

Qualifications:

Booking Information:
• Email: helena.brynmcleod.macp@gmail.com
• Phone: (250) 509-0166

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Justine Kaufmann
Registered Therapeutic Counsellor & Wellness Life Coach

Justine is a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor, Wellness Life Coach and Registered Yoga Teacher (RYT-200). Her approach is gentle and down-to-earth from a client- centred, trauma-informed, body-centred perspective. This lens attends to the holistic complexity of being human and considers the mind but also the body and how it responds to stress, anxiety, depression, grief, loss, trauma and more.

For the past decade, she has worked in the social service sector facilitating life skills youth groups, advocating and supporting women and children, providing care for youth who are placed at risk and teaching community-led yoga classes.

As a Counsellor, Justine employs different tools to bring awareness to the body, senses, and the present moment to help you understand your inner and outer worlds more deeply. She aims to foster a place of acceptance, compassion, and trust to support you in celebrating your strengths and growing your resilient capacity within your healing journey.

Areas of Focus

Anxiety
Depression
Self-confidence & self-esteem
People pleasing tendency
Feeling stuck in relationship or life
Body reconnection
Emotional dysregulation
Questions around purpose & calling
Identity exploration
Stress management
Goal setting & motivation

Qualifications

   Registered Therapeutic Counsellor
   Professional Counsellor Diploma Program, Rhodes Wellness College
   Certified Wellness Life Coach, Rhodes Wellness College
  200 – Hour Registered Yoga Instructor

Booking Information

Email Address: justinekaufmann@gmail.com

To book an appointment

Direct Line – 778 874 4796