Angela Leavey, R.Ac., Acupuncture and Tui Na Massage
My journey to Acupuncture has led me along many paths. I resigned my corporate position in 2001 and began training in massage and botanical medicine. I studied Organic Chemistry with an interest in the medical use of essential oils. After completing my designation in Toronto as a Certified Health Practitioner, I immersed myself in further education focusing on mental health and woman’s care.
In 2005, I was invited to participate in a project that changed the trajectory of my career. After a devastating tsunami struck Indonesia, I worked with a team of 20 volunteers in Sri Lanka to help support and re-build an area that had been damaged. The memories of witnessing humans who had virtually lost families, livelihoods and the very few material possessions in their lives, made me look at life from a different lens. What was most evident was the lack of counselling or community programs that offered emotional support for PTSD, anxiety and depression.
In 2010 I began my training at the Canadian College of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in Victoria and completed my three year program, and am now registered with the B.C. licensing board. I have extended and enhanced my education with workshops on addiction and mental health and am a certified NADA practitioner.
Sherri Inouye, Reiki Energy Healing
Sherri is a Reiki Master / Teacher and a Registered Practitioner with the Canadian Reiki Association. She is also a Registered Clinical Counsellor with a focus on women’s holistic health and healing from trauma. She is currently offering in-person Reiki sessions in Brentwood Bay, BC on Mondays. Distance Reiki is available by appointment. Please contact Sherri directly to book a remote session.
Farrah Shae Newnham R.Ac., Acupuncture and Holistic Nutrition
Farrah is a Registered Acupuncturist (R.Ac), Holistic Nutritionist, and Holistic Chef. Farrah’s work is supportive of people enduring life transitions such as a medical diagnosis, acquired injury or illness, the advancement of age, grief and loss, or healing from trauma.
With a compassionate and curious approach to Acupuncture, Farrah’s work aids in the rehabilitation of injury or illness, reduces pain, improves vitality and sleep quality, and supports the mental-emotional aspects of health. Farrah has a special interest in palliative and hospice care, offering Acupuncture to people at the end of life, as well as their families and caregivers.
As a Holistic Nutritionist, she aids her clients in the development of skills and education to create solutions for individual barriers to eating well. Rather than approaching food therapy with restriction, she opens up her clients to explore food somatically, culturally, empirically, environmentally, and spiritually. Farrah is repeatedly impressed by the power of food and its impact on the body. Farrah’s experience is working with diabetes, autoimmune conditions, IBS, pancreatitis, and cancer.
Farrah pays respect to her current teachers in her ongoing training: Dr. Michael Smith (300 Hour Traditional QiGong Teacher Training), Sarah Pritchard (Advanced Chinese Massage certification), and Rick Fischer (Mineral Mastery health education program).