Back to what you were doing.

The look on someone's face when the pain they walked in with has let go is the reason I still love this work. Twenty years in, I'm more interested in the next twenty than I was in the first.

I graduated from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in 2002, worked briefly in Australia, and in 2004 co-founded a multidisciplinary clinic in Scarborough. I'm now at the south end of Liverpool Road, in the Nautical Village by the lake — with walking paths outside the front door, which suits the way I practise more than any address I've had.

I take my time with each patient, listening for the clues that lead to the root cause rather than the sore spot — including the parts that don't hurt, because they are often where the answer is. Working on my own means you see me every visit, and I remember what we tried last time without reading it off a screen.

I use chiropractic adjustments, soft tissue therapy, acupuncture, ultrasound and CranioSacral therapy, and I fit custom orthotics where they're needed. The stretching and strengthening I prescribe comes out of an undergraduate degree in physical education and my own yoga practice. Which of it you get is my decision to make, not yours to research.

More about how I came to practise this way