Nathalie studied Physiotherapy at the University of Montreal and Osteopathy at the Collège d’Études Ostéopathiques de Montréal. She obtained a Master’s from University of Calgary. Nathalie is a leader in the study of how alternative and conventional medicines can be complimentary, and at the forefront of improving understanding of and access to osteopathy. She is passionate about her work and dedicated to the future of her science. Nathalie has won many awards for her research.
Nathalie supervises student thesis work in Osteopathy and has established Consensio Clinic as a leader in collaborative medicine in Alberta. Her personal specialities include plagiocephaly and torticollis, concussions, stress management, chronic conditions and palpation.
Francine is a 2013 graduate from the European School of Osteopathy in the UK. Her vision is to help people access peace and tranquility within themselves and the environment, and to be able to share that peace and wellbeing with their community.
Francine works by supporting a person to gain more freedom of movement through their whole body, from the feet to the hips, spine, shoulders, all the way up to the small bones that make up the head and face.
As such, Francine enjoys treating members of the whole family, including mums and babies, children, teenagers, adults and the elderly. In her practice she commonly sees individuals with a wide range of complaints, such as foot and ankle pain, knee pain, low back pain, aches and pains from pregnancy, shoulder pain, neck pain, headaches and TMJ pain.
She has also worked in a wide range of contexts, such as treating young dancers and elderly clients at a podiatrist’s clinic, as well as volunteering at a center for previously homeless individuals.
Francine was inspired by the humanistic focus of Osteopathy, how the art and science of its approach were inseparable and interlinked. This was what she saw from her father’s practice; he was an orthopedic surgeon who changed to practice as an Osteopath. His treatments helped her and her brother recover from many ailments while growing up; including asthma, sinus and mid ear infections, scoliosis, and stresses from school and growth spurts in general.
Since graduation, Francine has taken further courses on cranial osteopathy and pediatric osteopathy. She has also completed the Gray Institute for Functional Transformation training; and is able to tailor-make functional movement exercises adapted to each person’s needs, whether it is for completing tasks in everyday life or to improve sport performance.
And while Francine feels that while hands-on work can be a powerful tool in helping the healing process, however her goal is to empower clients to be able to ‘treat themselves’ even when they return home, so that they can help their bodies become more resilient, and relax their minds from everyday stress.
Francine has found that Qigong is one of the many practices that can help a person in this way, as it involves both a moving meditation and a still meditation. Francine aims to lead by example, and she is also willing to offer free qigong group practice sessions on request; as long as one person is interested, she will be there!
In her free time, she enjoys playing music with friends, improvising with the bass recorder, guitar, piano, djembe and kalimba; as well as learning circular breathing for the didgeridoo. She enjoys singing too, whether in a group or just playing with the echoes in valleys and canyons. She also enjoys spending time at huts, hiking and kayaking, cross country and telemark skiing, and just being in these mountains.
She is originally from Hong Kong, and speaks English, Cantonese and Mandarin.
