This Team Cares about You ♥

Dawn Benway is most often the first face you see when you come into our cozy home. She manages our Reception Team, our Client Experience from start-to-finish, and welcomes clients into our caring community. Dawn is passionate about holistic nutrition and makes the best fresh-pressed juices around!

Stef Bourke is a certified Meditation and Alignment Coach. She provides practical tools to help people experience more mindful moments in their day. She loves nature, animals and authentic connection. When she’s not practicing meditation or yoga, she’s outside drinking in the experience of the world we live in.

Val George is a coordinator-extraordinaire at We Thrive, handling the behind-the-scenes details for clients to ensure we are able to offer direct billing and other value-added services for our clients. Val is an avid student of the Course of Miracles and loves to spend time with family and friends.

Kim enjoys working with people and loves being a massage therapist. She has experience with pregnancy massage, treating sciatica, TMJ dysfunction, scar tissue, carpal tunnel syndrome, whiplash and many more common issues. She offers relaxation, deep tissue, pre-natal and cupping massage.

Joanne Manzara, affectionally known as Jo, is the friendly face you will see part-time at our Reception Desk. Jo is fun, positive and loves to help our clients feel welcomed and at ease. Don’t get into a board game or trivia game against Jo, especially if the topic is the hit show “Friends”. She’ll clean your clock!

As an integrative psychotherapist, Jennifer collaborates with clients to facilitate a deeper understanding of themselves. She inspires clientele to create new identities through conscious navigation of our past, present and desired future. Through groups and individual therapy, she guides clients home to themselves.

As an RMT, Kirsten Munro listens to the body, offers thoughtful communication and a collaborative approach to reaching clients’ specific goals. Kirsten provides her clients with a therapeutic touch, getting deeper into their muscles as needed, but also giving them an experience of deep relaxation.

Leslie Richards combines her two practices to provide patients with personalized treatment plans. She has experience in Orthopedics and Sports Injury Clinics, Long Term Care Facilities, and has specialized in Pelvic Health, with a special interest in Women’s Health and Yoga Physiotherapy. 

As Co-Founder of We Thrive, and a Chiropodist with more than 25 years in practice and business ownership, Cristol leads our team with compassion and kindness. Always ready with a silly meme or joke, her sense of humour keeps things light. A lover of all animals, especially the vulnerable ones, Cristol cares deeply.

Carrie’s passion for yoga and meditation, led her to study hypnosis and HypnoBirthing®. Hypnosis is similar to guided meditation, but at a much deeper level. In her gentle yoga classes and hypnosis sessions, Carrie encourages people to connect with their deeper selves and make positive changes in their lives.

Kristen helps clients reconnect with their inner guidance, nurture a sense of safety in the body, develop self-acceptance, and a renewed sense of wellbeing. She does this through the practice of EFT, Somatic Therapy, IFS and CBT, and has particular expertise in helping clients navigate anxiety, co-dependency, shame and stress.