Natural Comfort Wellness Centre

NATURAL COMFORT WELLNESS CENTRE

“ Your Partner in Holistic Health and Healing ”

Our Therapists

Pat Antoniak
RN., BN., RA.,EOT.,AG.Reg.
Reiki Practitioner
Pat has both a diploma and degree in nursing and has been a practicing Registered Nurse for over 30 years. She specializes in mental health care, individual and group therapy, acute and chronic pain management, health education and research. Pat has retired from patient care services at a local hospital, but continues to offer private nursing care as needed at the Centre.

Her company, Natural Comfort Aromatherapy, has offered services, products and education to those in the Lower Mainland and abroad since 1995. Pat developed and taught the Aromatherapy Practitioner Program for Langara College, Vancouver, BC. She continues teaching Advanced and Interest Courses for aromatherapists and other therapists. She also offers her Basic Anatomy, Physiology and Common Pathologies course via correspondence learning.

Pat is a founding member and past-president of the BC Alliance Of Aromatherapy, past board member of the Canadian Federation of Aromatherapists and currently holds an editorial board position with the International Journal of Clinical Aromatherapy. She holds membership in several local and international professional organizations, both in nursing and aromatherapy.

In addition to her nursing and aromatherapy, Pat has basic training in Healing Touch, Ayurvedic massage, energy work using crystals, colour sound, Reiki and chakra balancing. Pat has blended her nursing, aromatherapy and energetic practices into a comprehensive, client-centered approach to care. She is the owner-manager of the Centre.

Beverley Hawkins
RA.Di.SPE. RAC. NCTMB
Reiki Master, BFRP, Reconnective Healing® Practitioner
Beverley began her holistic journey as the daughter of a naturopath-chiropractor in her native South Africa. Having helped her father in his wellness business for many years, she developed an appreciation for the concept of holistic care and has never looked back!

Her initial training as a massage therapist in South Africa ensured a firm foundation for all other modalities that followed. Beverley has a thorough understanding of what makes people “tick” and encourages her clients to find their truth. She is equally comfortable doing hands-on body work as she is with doing hands-off energetic work.

Beverley is the owner-operator of the West Coast Institute of Aromatherapy, offering correspondence courses in aromatherapy. Beverley has been a board member and past-President of the BC Association of Practicing Aromatherapists and has been Vice-President and is now a board member of the BC Alliance Of Aromatherapy. She holds professional membership in several other organizations as well.

Cheryl Larden
R.N., B.S.N
Therapeutic Touch Practitioner
Cheryl Larden has worked as a Registered Nurse in medicine, surgery, pediatrics, and maternity. She has worked as a bedside nurse and as a Perinatal Clinical Educator. Cheryl has a private practice in Therapeutic Touch, providing individual sessions, teaching, and facilitating a practice group.

Cheryl has been using Therapeutic Touch since the 1980's and has been taught by Dolores Krieger and Dora Kunz, the originators of Therapeutic Touch. She was a founding member of the B.C. Therapeutic Touch Network and is current President.

Cheryl was the primary investigator in a two year research study at BC Women's Hospital entitled “Efficacy of Therapeutic Touch in Treating Pregnant Inpatients Who Have a Chemical Dependency”. This study was published In the Journal of Holistic Nursing in December 2004

Cheryl uses Therapeutic Touch in the hospital, in private practice, and in her day to day life. She finds Therapeutic Touch a very powerful and gentle way of helping individuals heal themselves

Donna Guillemin
BA, AMG, PSM
Plant Spirit Medicine and Flower Essence Practitoner
After attending an International Flower Essence Conference in Victoria, B.C., Donna studied Plant Spirit Medicine and did clinical training with Eliot Cowan. She also attended Classical 5-Element Acupuncture intakes with Dr. J. R. Worsley. More recently she has completed advanced clinical training with Eliot Cowan, as well as workshop studies with Lonnie Jarrett, author of Nourishing Destiny.

Plant Spirit Medicine is a gentle, energetic healing treatment that helps support desired change and transformation. During the process of restoring balance, many issues, whether physical, emotional, mental and / or spiritual may be alleviated or lose their acute significance. Donna uses Traditional Chinese 5- Element wisdom to better understand what a client needs at a deep level, as well as what plants can offer in terms of healing.

Donna says that the 5- Element perspective has given her insight into the way she sees the world within and without. She says, “ We are not so different from plants…they have so much to teach us and so much to give us."

Consultations and follow-up treatments are recommended for all ages.

Ruth Stubens
M.Sc. Therapeutic Touch, Reiki Master

A former Speech-Language Pathologist, Ruth has been doing energy work for over ten years. She is a Therapeutic Touch Practitioner and a Reiki Master with training in the healing use of crystals and gemstones. A compassionate and intuitive therapist, Ruth draws on her clinical skills, training, on-going studies and her own healing journey in her sessions. Ruth feels honoured to assist people on their path to radiant health and wellness.

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