Laurie graduated from the University of Toronto in 1996 with a Bachelor of Science in Physiotherapy and began to pursue advanced courses in orthopedic and manual physiotherapy, earning a Fellowship of the Canadian Academy of Physical Therapists (FCAMPT) in 2006. As her career has evolved, pelvic function has become more of a focus and Laurie is pleased to be a part of a pelvic health focused practice.

Laurie is dedicated to staying on the leading edge and continues to take courses to study and integrate the musculoskeletal system with the pelvis to treat the whole person. She uses many treatment techniques in her practice including acupuncture, neural mobilization, soft tissue work, joint mobilizations and manipulations, and targeted exercise to achieve optimal results as quickly as possible.

She stays active in education as a facilitator in Clinical Reasoning for the final year students in the Master’s Physical Therapy program at the University of Toronto. Working within a multi-disciplinary team is a great adjunct to physiotherapy, and Laurie is pleased to collaborate with family physicians, midwives, OB/gyns, pain specialists, naturopathic doctors, and fertility specialists in addition to the team at Proactive Pelvic Health Centre.

Laurie continues to love her career and is enthusiastic about helping clients take control of their own health to maintain or resume their favourite activities and sports. She regularly sees men and women, older or just starting their relationships and families for pelvic concerns such as: bladder and bowel incontinence, pelvic and/or sexual pain, prolapse, pre and postnatal, and post-surgical care. She is happy to provide an open and confidential space for questions and discussion to help people understand their conditions and find hope.

In her time away from the clinic, Laurie enjoys yoga, meditation, and keeping up with her 3 school-aged children.

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Maria Cheung is a compassionate Somatic Pleasure Coach in mind, body, spirit, sex and relating. She is an American Board Certified Clinical Sexologist (ID:23917), specializing in sexual yoga, with over 15 years of experience in the healthcare industry. She has a Bachelor of Science in Anatomy and Cell Biology from McGill University, and a Master Degree in Public Health, specializing in socio-behavioural studies from the University of Waterloo. She is also honoured to come from a family of Doctors in Traditional Chinese Medicine (her great grandfather) and is continuing this weaving of eastern holistic indigenous healing wisdom by graduating from the ONLY government accredited school in the world for Authentic Tantra® from the Institute for Authentic Tantra Education, in Kelowna BC, Canada. She is specifically trained in teaching methods derived from the Shangpa Kagyu Lineage of Tibetan Tantric Buddhism (secular) alongside her western neuroscience (eg. polyvagal theory), and sociobehavioural science (eg.non-violent communication) background.

Combining methods in Western and Eastern medicine, she guides her clients through a proven program specializing in sexual yoga as an Authentic Tantra® Practitioner. Her methods combine dimensions in Meditation, Connection, Pleasure and Movement to self-heal, applying a holistic trauma-informed and somatic approach, integrating growth both in the bedroom and into your life.

On a personal note, she too has struggled with and been on a decade long healing journey. She ended a traumatic engagement through infidelity at 25, came out as bisexual and polyamorous, and has spoken out about her period of suicidal thoughts through all of this. Throughout she’s had the (often painful and curious) opportunity to observe the impact of our personal mindset, community pressures, societal systems and cultures on suffering through sensitive or taboo experiences and identities. Along the way, she too resisted, avoided, and fumbled until she developed new skills in a compassionate mindset combined with more sophisticated tools and habits, developed in a safe community, to navigate all of it now, with more ease, grace and even humour.

Today, she finds great joy and fulfilment in diving deep and in dedication to her clients and audiences on their healing journeys in sexual health, pleasure, intimate relationships and in life. Her approach is both playful and compassionate, warm and wise. She believes in meeting her clients where they are, and teaching them to self-heal through the wisdom of their own beautiful bodies.

Outside of the clinic you’ll find Maria making time to meditate, rock climb, paddle board, ski or dance any chance she gets.

Maria offers coaching to individuals and couples to meet their unique pleasure needs and goals.

Specialities: -Somatic practices & Trauma-aware (Polyvagal theory, Non-violent communication) -Rediscovering desire and pleasure (while reducing shame) through major transitions -BIPOC Affirming -LGBTQIA+ Affirming -Non-monogamy/Polyamory Affirming -Kink Affirming

Vagina-Owners • Recover your desire and pleasure through vaginismus, prolapse and incontinence • Heal from pain during sex • Gain wetness (even post menopause, and post surgery) • Become orgasmic (and even multi-orgasmic) • Navigate transitions: virginity/lack of experience, postnatal, menopause

Penis-Owners • Recover desire after healing through incontinence, and major transitions • Resolve premature ejaculation • Be reliably orgasmic - and last as long as you like • Regain sensation and arousal control after surgery • Resolve porn addiction • Become multi-orgasmic (via semen retention & ejaculation mastery practices)

Partnership(s) and Deepening Intimacy • Bridge low, excessive or mis-matched libido • Master sexual communication • Explore LGBTQIA+ spectrums • Explore kink • Heal from infidelity • Navigate non-monogamy • Discover sacred sexuality

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Jessica is a holistic nutrition health coach and certified hormone health practitioner. Using nutrition, lifestyle, and supplementation, Jessica helps women find relief from hormone and gut health issues, find balance, and feel good. Jessica offers holistic health workshops, as well as 1:1 health coaching.

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Sophie holds a Bachelor of Science in Kinesiology and a Master of Physical Therapy from Western University. After launching her physiotherapy practice, she pursued continuing education in pelvic health physiotherapy, enabling her to offer comprehensive care to clients of all genders, focusing on both orthopedic and pelvic health needs.

Sophie is dedicated to creating a positive rehabilitation experience for each client. She adopts a holistic approach, working collaboratively to identify the root causes of pain and dysfunction. By treating underlying issues rather than just symptoms, she ensures effective, long-lasting results. Together with her clients, she creates personalized treatment plans that incorporate manual therapy, functional exercise, and thorough education, all aimed at helping them move well and engage in the activities they love.

Her expertise includes treating incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, diastasis, vaginismus/dyspareunia, urinary frequency/urgency, bowel dysfunction, pelvic pain, and prostatectomy rehabilitation. Passionate about her own well-being, Sophie enjoys running and has pursued numerous continuing education courses focused on running and returning to running postpartum.

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Makayla is a passionate Yoga Teacher and Somatic Practitioner. Her work is deeply rooted in supporting others through their unique experiences, whether It’s through healing the nervous system, trauma recovery, nurturing pelvic health or supporting an empowering pregnancy and postpartum. After completing her Yoga Teacher training she continued her education in various styles of yoga and other modalities such as prenatal/postnatal, trauma informed, yoga nidra, breathwork, yin, restorative, meditation and somatic work.

Since 2016, Makayla has experienced many years of training through her personal and professional practice. She’s seen for herself how yoga, somatic work, meditation, breathwork and other mindfulness practices can profoundly impact your healing trajectory by connecting the mind, body and intuition. Makayla’s passion was sparked by her personal issues with long term pelvic health struggles rooted in nervous system dysregulation and trauma recovery. Learning how to tune into subtle cues from the body through somatic work has made the biggest impact on her personal healing journey bringing more ease and joy into her life.

As someone dedicated to trauma informed care, Makayla understands the profound impact trauma can have on both the body and mind. She strives to always provide a safe and nurturing space for clients to reclaim their body, release tension, restore balance and find inner peace. She believes that healing from trauma is a process that requires time, care and a deep connection to yourself.

Her approach in somatics and yoga is centered around finding a personalized practice for each client using a point of entry that the client is most comfortable with, whether that be through movement, breath, mindfulness or somatic techniques. She holds space by guiding her clients through somatic practices designed to help release tension, stored emotions, trauma and old belief systems that no longer serve you in order to create space for you to embody new belief systems, emotional regulation and nervous system stability.

Makayla offers individual sessions tailored to your needs and goals. From navigating pelvic floor challenges, nervous system regulation, reconnecting to your body after dissociation, supporting your body during pregnancy/postpartum or taking a deeper dive into your yoga or mindfulness practice.

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Angelique Montano-Bresolin received her Honours Bachelor of Arts Kinesiology degree from the University of Western Ontario in 1997. In 2000, she graduated from the University of Toronto Physical Therapy Program. Over the years, she has practiced as a Registered Physiotherapist in Ontario primarily in outpatient pelvic health and orthopaedic settings. She founded Proactive Pelvic Health Centre in 2012 and currently treats all genders and all ages struggling with pelvic health concerns.

She has trained extensively with experts in Canada and in the United States through the Herman and Wallace Pelvic Rehabilitation Institute and the American Physical Therapy Association. Her training in pelvic floor dysfunction (in adults and pediatrics) has included courses to assess and treat urinary incontinence, complex pelvic pain & sexual pain (vulvodynia, vaginismus, endometriosis, IC/PBS), gastro-intestinal disorders, prolapse, pre and postnatal, preparation for labour and delivery, post-surgical, post-menopausal and post-cancer care.

She is a Pfilates (pelvic floor pilates) Certified Instructor and a Level 1 Hypopressive Certified Instructor. Angelique also acts as a Teaching Assistant for Pelvic Health Solutions, a company dedicated to educating physiotherapists and other health care practitioners about pelvic health. She advocates for pelvic health education by guest lecturing for the Ryerson University Midwifery Education Program and the University of Toronto Physical Therapy Program.

To achieve the best results for the treatment of pelvic problems, Angelique is a firm believer in the importance of treating within a multi-disciplinary team environment This may include working with your family doctor, midwife, urologist, gynaecologist and other health care professionals including the practitioners at Proactive Pelvic Health Centre.

Angelique will help you take control of your pelvic health. She looks forward to assisting you with compassionate, confidential and professional care.

Memberships and Associations: Angelique is a member of the International Pelvic Pain Society (IPPS), the International Continence Society (ICS), the National Vulvodynia Association (NVA), the Interstitial Cystitis Association (ICA), the Interstitial Cystitis Network (ICN), the Canadian Physiotherapy Association (CPA) and the Women’s Health Division of the CPA.

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Lauren Rudko is a Montreal transplant who obtained both her Bachelor of Arts and Masters of Physiotherapy degrees from McGill University. Her long history of playing and coaching rugby drew her into physiotherapy and learning about the role of the pelvic floor led her to pursue postgraduate work in pelvic floor physiotherapy. Lauren treats people of all genders experiencing incontinence and pelvic pain, as well as menstrual pain (dysmenorrhea) and pain with sexual activity (dyspareunia and vaginismus). She has taken courses which better help her work with individuals living with endometriosis, experiencing menopause, returning to physical activity in the postpartum period, and experiencing interstitial cystitis. She works to apply a biopsychosocial approach, ensuring to incorporate many aspects of an individual’s life when treating and empowering them to take the lead regarding their health.

She has a special interest in pediatric pelvic health, working with children experiencing encopresis (fecal soiling), constipation, enuresis (bedwetting), daytime urinary incontinence and pelvic pain. She works in creative ways to meet families where they are to improve bowel and bladder habits to reduce symptoms. Lauren has taken courses in autism spectrum disorder and postural work for kids with exceptionalities, to better assist children with a wide range of diagnoses.

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Anna’s offerings are rooted in her own personal practice (since 2001) using yoga therapy tools to address mental health challenges and related physiological conditions, including symptoms relating to pelvic health. She feels it is an honour to support others on their paths to integrative wellness as a yoga therapist certified by the International Association of Yoga Therapists. She is also a psychologist and passionate about the science of well-being and resilience. Anna specializes in translating current research and evidence-based best practices in yoga, trauma recovery, pain care, and somatic science, into personalized and effective tools for genuine and long-lasting healing. Her services are grounded in the tenets of trauma-informed yoga therapy: accessibility, respect for individual experience and agency, a focus on therapeutic effect, mindfulness, and a holistic approach to health.

She is dedicated to empowering clients to take an active role in their own healing by developing greater self-awareness, safe-embodiment, and self-regulation. Connection to the pelvic floor can prove challenging for so many reasons including: the subtlety of noticing pelvic resting tone, of guiding activation and relaxation, and dissociation from the pelvic area due to trauma or pain.

In both her personal and professional experience, Anna has found yoga can be a powerful complementary therapeutic modality, in part, because of how it supports connection to the pelvic floor and to its responsive patterns. Yoga weaves introspection into all practices and offers a felt-experience of the pelvic floor in dynamic relationship with the nervous system, respiratory system, and alignment. Anna recognizes all of her client’s layers of experience including how pelvic health impacts emotions, thought patterns, participation in the world, relationships and sense of hope.

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Kaitlyn Swartz is a highly skilled and dedicated massage therapist with a special interest in women’s health and well-being. Academically, she completed a Bachelor degree in Human Kinetics at the University of Windsor, and an Honours Bachelor degree in Applied Health Sciences- Athletic Therapy from Sheridan College.

Kaitlyn continued her education by completing the Advanced Standing Massage Therapy program at the Ontario College for Health & Technology. Further expanding her horizons, she earned her Master in Physiotherapy Studies from the prestigious University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia. Kaitlyn brings a wealth of knowledge and expertise to her practice.

As a passionate therapist, Kaitlyn is committed to facilitating optimal healing, ensuring her clients swiftly return to their favourite sports and daily activities. Her philosophy revolves around treating the cause of the problem, not just the symptoms, making her an invaluable asset to those seeking holistic and effective therapeutic solutions. Specializing in assessing and treating injuries to joints and soft tissues, Kaitlyn believes that the healing process extends beyond the clinic walls. In addition to in-clinic treatments, she provides personalized exercises and self-care advice, empowering clients to take an active role in their recovery journey.

In her spare time, Kaitlyn enjoys spending time with her goldendoodle Leo, checking out local farmers markets around the city, and exercising at her local gym.

Let Kaitlyn’s expertise guide you towards optimal well-being, enabling you to reclaim the joy of doing what you love!

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