Peter has completed a 3000 hour massage therapy program with Kootenay Columbia College, which includes 600 hours spent in the Nelson student clinic. He is experienced in deep tissue massage, relaxation of the nervous system, and a variety of Swedish techniques.

Billing through insurance is now available through submitting your own claims, and direct billing along with ICBC applications will be available shortly.

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Professionally, Peter comes from a decade of front line mental health work after graduating from Acadia University with a degree in applied psychology. He has witnessed many stories of resilience and trauma and has developed a series of skills revolving around active non-judgmental listening that he is carrying into a new practice of massage.

Peter is focused on providing inclusive, attentive care tailored to your particular needs. He is deeply interested in how stress is stored in the body and consciously cultivates a safe space to help you leave what you can on the table, while giving your body space to facilitate healing and reduce pain.

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After a decade of witnessing cost related barriers to care, Peter is excited to offer by-donation massages once a month as an opportunity to provide an affordable service to a rural community.

Peter would also like to acknowledgement the lack of support that caregivers receive within our communities. A small series of reduced rate massages are available If you are a professional caregiver, or an individual who is supporting family members with development needs or who are approaching the end of life.

Please contact Peter at 778 770 2388 for more information.

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Brendan opened Raven Acupuncture in 2013. He is committed to rural practice, has family in the area and grew up in a similar rural environment to the Kootenays. It can be difficult to get good healthcare in areas far from hospitals and he is here to help as a general practitioner with any non-emergency health concerns. After having kids commuting to Kaslo became unfeasible, he now has offices in Slocan and New Denver. Brendan is a Registered Acupuncturist with the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioners and Acupuncturists of British Columbia (CTCMA). He received his B.A. from Bard College in New York and later graduated with honors from Pacific Rim College with an Acupuncture Diploma in Victoria B.C. He has also taken classes in western herbology through Pacific Rim College and Dominion Herbal College where he got a Chartered Herbalist Diploma.

While in Victoria, Brendan volunteered as an acupuncturist at a weekly acupuncture clinic at Our Place Society, treating vulnerable and homeless populations for addictions, pain and post-traumatic stress. He has done similar work locally at ANKORS in Nelson, and now runs a monthly sliding scale Community Pain Clinic at Raven Acupuncture. Brendan has an interest in treating trauma from a physical and emotional perspective which is what drew him to Chinese Medicine. His path to becoming a healer began after living in New Orleans Pre and Post Hurricane Katrina, wanting to help when there was no medical infrastructure in place.

Brendan is invested in helping to build a healthy community in the West Kootenays by making acupuncture an accessible treatment option for everyone. His commitment to accessibility means that he has provided his services for those on low-income or disability for free through MSP during a monthly Community Pain Clinic. He has treated thousands of people through a sliding scale during that clinic which is ever evolving and now includes Massage as well as Community Outreach RN who does wound care and STI testing. Brendan began doing community work volunteering at a soup kitchen in Montreal as a little kid setting tables and with Food Not Bombs as a young adult.

Direct Contact Info:

Email: ravenacupuncture@gmail.com

Phone Number: 250-551-2581

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Erica has a wide variety of experience and expertise in the healing arts and works in private practice doing one to one psychotherapy, mediation for couples and families, facilitation of workshops, and other therapeutic support roles. She is currently a RCC (registered clinical counsellor) in British Columbia and is a provider for ICBC, FNHA, CVAP, KCDS, and WorksafeBC. She obtained a PhD from Queen’s University in Sociology with a focus on emotions, trauma, and community health. Before pursuing her Masters and Doctorate she obtained a diploma from Grant MacEwan University as a Holistic Health Practitioner (HHP) and is certified in Reflexology, Reiki, Touch for Health, and NLP (which included a certification in Time Line Therapy). She also holds a certification in Somatic Relational Therapy and has training in NonViolentCommunication and archetypal psychology. Erica, holds a vision of community wellness that extends from the psychospiritual and somatic health of embodied individuals. She takes an intuitive, and multidimensional approach to healing and wellness and uses different modalities to support her clients wherever they are in the present moment.

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