We’re Growing to Better Meet Your Needs
Introducing our newest team members! Learn about these talented and dedicated therapists, who bring a passion for healthcare, depth of experience, and breadth of knowledge to our clinics. They can’t wait to meet you.
Arwen Anderson
Registered Massage Therapist
Arwen graduated from Camosun College with a Diploma in Massage Therapy. She has an evidence-based approach that blends well with her natural intuition and commitment to patient-centered care. She utilizes a combination of techniques including Swedish massage, trigger point release, myofascial work, and passive and active stretching to provide tailored care for her patients and address their individual needs. With experience working both as a Health Care Aide and a Birth Doula, Arwen enjoys working with patients across a wide range of life stages and conditions.
Naomi Aris Horii
Registered Clinical Counsellor Student
Naomi is a student counsellor who offers a collaborative, anti-oppressive, trauma-sensitive, justice-oriented approach to support the therapy journey. Knowing that therapy can be a tender process, she works alongside clients with compassion and attentiveness to explore trauma, values, grief, structural barriers, and the way we carry what uniquely shapes us.
Naomi is a Japanese Canadian settler with mixed ancestry, who is privileged to have been raised up on the ancestral, unceded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) nations. Currently, Naomi is working alongside Japanese Canadian community and intergenerational trauma, wellness, joy and healing through research, writing, and community offerings.
Therapy can open doors to empowered choice-making, softening, learning, and becoming un-stuck. In the therapy session, Naomi is a patient, present ally and collaborator to a person’s journey. Therapy is hard, and takes a lot of energy, work, and bravery. She honours what it takes for folks to engage in the work of therapy and is sensitive to what can show up in the process.
Naomi is informed by an Indigenous worldview of connection as medicine. Other pieces that inform her work are: ecological attachment models, the wisdom of the body, mindfulness, and intersectional feminism. She works alongside the challenges of grief, loss, relational/family struggles, and trauma; supporting individuals towards processing anger, rage, trust, life transitions, and integrating the many resources intimacy, love, rest, pleasure, joy, community-care and self-care can give.
If not outside walking, Naomi loves to cook without recipes and make something delicious out of nothing. She enjoys family time, playing music in a noise band, and having impromptu dance parties with her spirited kiddo.
While Naomi is completing the requirements to be certified as a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) she is pleased to offer reduced rates and sliding scale for her services.
Gaylen O’Shea
Registered Massage Therapist
Gaylen graduated from Camosun College with a Diploma in Massage Therapy. She employs a range of techniques including myofascial release, deep tissue, joint mobilizations, and general Swedish massage in order to meet her clients’ treatment goals. Gaylen brings a deep curiosity and a desire for continued learning to her practice, and she aims to understand the root cause of any dysfunction present. Working collaboratively with her clients, she strives to create a treatment environment that feels welcoming and non-judgemental. Gaylen enjoys working with clients across a wide range of life stages and conditions, and finds particular fulfillment supporting clients who are dealing with depression, anxiety, PTSD, and other mental health conditions. Outside of her work she enjoys hiking, cooking, and tending to her garden.
Jake Van Stone
Kinesiologist
Jake completed his Bachelor’s degree in Kinesiology at Camosun College to set the foundation for Physiotherapy training in the future. He believes in building the confidence of his clients through education and progressive movement. Prior to starting with Fix, Jake received his NSCA-CPT personal training designation and through this work as a strength coach, developed a keen interest and excellence in helping clients rehabilitate from injury, particularly those pertaining to the shoulder and spine.
When Jake is not working you might find him hiking through the woods or in the gym lifting weights.