Lara has worked as an Occupational Therapist in the mental health and addictions field since 2009. In 2016, Lara launched Pelvic Resilience, an Occupational Therapy practice dedicated to helping individuals struggling with pain, pelvic health challenges, and other distressing symptoms to get back to living a rich and meaningful life.

As an Occupational Therapist, Lara firmly believes in offering approaches to pelvic health recovery that are creative, flexible, accessible and focused on restoring quality of life.

As a skilled mental health clinician, Lara also offers psychotherapeutic strategies in the work that she does with her clients. Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Acceptance and Commitment Therapy are evidence-based approaches that guide individuals toward a more empowered and flexible recovery by offering new ways of managing symptoms and the emotions that are intertwined with them.

In her spare time, you will find Lara hanging with family, reading a good book, crocheting something special, or playing Ultimate Frisbee!

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Melissa is a comprehensively trained Pilates instructor and a Franklin Method® Educator with a strong foundation in science and education. Her approach is rooted in curiosity, always seeking to understand how the body moves and functions. A significant back injury postpartum led her to Pilates—not just as a tool for recovery but as a way to rethink how she moved, cared for, and listened to her body. This sparked a lifelong pursuit of learning, blending movement principles with practical application. Melissa takes a student-centered approach, recognizing that each individual brings a unique movement history and learning style. She helps clients develop greater ease, efficiency, and confidence in their movement through exploration and education. Her goal is to empower individuals with the knowledge and tools they need to move well—whether for rehabilitation, performance, or everyday function. By fostering curiosity and encouraging self-discovery, she helps clients build strength, resilience, and a deeper connection to their bodies. Outside the studio, Melissa loves spending time with her partner and two amazing kiddos. She finds joy in live theatre, music, and meaningful conversations—whether at a concert, on a walk-and-talk, or over a great cup of coffee. Whenever she can, she escapes to the shores of Lake Huron, where she’s happiest dividing her time between splashing in the water and unwinding with a good book.

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Kristin’s embodied and compassionate approach weaves Yoga, experiential movement, ELDOA, meditation, breathwork and Somatic Experiencing – a body-based approach which aims to understand and resolve symptoms of trauma, overwhelm and stress that accumulate in our bodies – into every collaborative session. Whether it’s deepening awareness, experiential movement education, understanding your unique nervous system, healing from an injury or shifting tensional patterns, Kristin provides practical tools that can increase your capacity, vitality and awareness for daily life.

Her passion for pelvic health education began over 15 years ago with pelvic floor physiotherapist Susanne Kemmerer, and yoga teacher Ramanand Patel with whom she studied and collaborated for many years. She continued learning with Pelvic Health Solutions, Leslie Howard and others still with a specific interest in how the pelvic floor and nervous system are deeply woven. Kristin is also an End-of-Life Care Practitioner and a longtime meditator in the Buddhist tradition and deeply curious about how our awareness and experience of transition, grief and death inspires life.

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Heidi Smith has been consulting for individuals and organizations for over 25 years. Her approach combines an expertise in nutrition and exercise with her passion for practicing mindfulness, discovering unconscious patterns and reconnecting to our intuition. In addition to being a Registered Dietitian, Heidi is a certified facilitator of the MBSR program (Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction), a trained SoulCollage® Facilitator and an Advanced Dream Pattern Analyst. She is an award-winning presenter, an author and a mother of 3. In addition to her individual work with clients, Heidi has travelled across North America facilitating workshops for organizations of all sizes.

Heidi creates warm, non-judgemental, soulful spaces to explore our inner world. Whether it’s through meditation, collage, dream analysis or intuitive eating, Heidi uses her facilitation skills to help you turn inward, to listen to your body, to be curious about your mind, to awaken your heart and to find what fuels your fire to live life with vitality.

History and Training: Heidi completed her training in Dietetics at Brescia Collage earning a double degree in Nutrition and Human Biology at the University of Western Ontario. She did her Dietetic Internship at Kingston General Hospital. She began her career as a research coordinator at Queen’s University looking at the metabolic effects of weight loss through diet and/or exercise. Heidi is perhaps most recognized for her 18 years as Head of Nutrition at the University of Guelph, Health and Performance Centre. During her time in this position, she consulted for individuals, sports teams and organizations. On a more personal note, Heidi loves spending time outdoors in the woods, by the fire or on the water every chance she gets. The more she practices mindfulness, the more she savours her time in nature shared with loved ones.

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Nicole is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario and McMaster University. Nicole has pioneered Pelvic Physiotherapy and has acted as a mentor for many Pelvic Physiotherapists in the CW/KW/Guelph areas. She is EPA’s Pelvic Associate and internally mentors all of EPA’s pelvic physiotherapists. Nicole has furthered her education by completing Manual Therapy Levels 1-5, Pelvic Health Levels 1-4, and other courses related to incontinence, perineal pain, pelvic organ prolapse, pregnancy, bowel dysfunction and low back/pelvic girdle pain. Her treatment techniques include the use of Manual Therapy, Specialized Exercise, and Soft Tissue Release. Her clinical interests include low back, hip, women’s health, chronic pain, and pelvic health.

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