Restoring your health from head to toe.
Chronic
Pain Care
Supporting Mental Health
Acute and Diagnostic Care
WHAT TO EXPECT
Welcome to Rebalance, Nelson's Wellness Collective, where your journey to individualized care begins. We passionately offer a variety of services to support your well-being, addressing both physical and emotional needs in a professional, relaxing environment. Our diverse team of skilled practitioners offers massage therapy, manual osteopathy, Chinese medicine, acupuncture, counselling, functional medicine, and shiatsu.
By blending traditional and modern techniques, we focus on creating a calm nervous system, which we believe is crucial for healing. Experience care, connection, and a holistic approach to wellness tailored to support your body, mind, and spirit.
ABOUT OUR TEAM
FORREST
Forrest is a Registered Massage Therapist with over 18 years of experience, specializing in long-term results through myofascial release, joint mobilizations, and patient education. He also holds a diploma in Manual Osteopathy and teaches at Kootenay Columbia College of Registered Massage Therapy.
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Based in Nelson, Forrest combines massage therapy and manual osteopathy to create customized treatment plans that enhance mobility, relieve pain, and improve overall physical health. His integrative approach incorporates joint mobilizations, myofascial release, visceral therapy, cranial osteopathy, and muscle energy techniques, empowering patients with effective strategies for sustainable, day-to-day wellness and long-term outcomes.
MONICA
Monica is a Registered Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner and Manual Osteopath passionate about holistic healing. Her journey began as a personal trainer in 1998, which led her to explore massage therapy. She trained in Thai Massage, Therapeutic Touch, Trigger Point Therapy, Raindrop Therapy, and Thai Herbal Compress Massage, fostering a deep commitment to integrative care.
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She is registered with the CTCMA as a Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner, Herbalist, and Acupuncturist. By blending ancient wisdom with modern techniques, Monica helps clients restore balance, enhance vitality, and achieve their wellness goals. She is dedicated to supporting others on their journey to optimal health.
PAUL SASO
Paul Saso has been practicing Shiatsu since 2011. His goal is to open blockages and tense areas and to revitalize the body, allowing it to function with ease and without pain. By working along meridians throughout the body the practitioner enables Chi to flow freely thus stimulating healing and health. Blockages and tense areas are released and the body is balanced, creating flow and evenness.
Shiatsu treatments can heal a wide range of problems, including imbalances in posture, neck, back, and joint pain, sciatica, tendinitis, insomnia, musculoskeletal pain, arthritis, and headaches. It is also used to reduce stress and anxiety and can help bring a sense of ease to life.
Full sessions are approximately 1.5 to 2 hours long, and shorter sessions are available to address specific issues.
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REBECCA GOUTAL
Rebecca is a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor, Teacher,
Facilitator, and co-founder of LoveAlive Transformative Arts &
Therapy. As a Relationship Specialist, she provides person-
centred counselling for individuals, couples, and families,
supporting them in healing, growth, and resilience.
With over 15 years of experience, Rebecca integrates diverse
approaches, including Experiential, Family Systems, Relational,
Somatic, Cognitive and Emotionally Focused Therapy, IFS,
Transpersonal Psychology, and Expressive Arts. She holds a
Bachelor’s in Fine Arts (Social Practice & Community
Engagement), a Diploma in Transpersonal Psychology
Counselling, and an Advanced Certificate in Transformative
Justice, along with specialized training in, Non-Violent
Communication, Conflict Resolution, and Couples Therapy.
Rebecca fosters a safe, inclusive environment where fear and
shame can soften, allowing clients to connect with their innate
wisdom and navigate a healing path through challenges such as
anxiety, grief, trauma, and relationship difficulties. As new
possibilities come to light, she offers integrative practices to
support ongoing growth. The journey is one of development
toward a greater sense of wholeness, connection, fulfillment, and
joy in life.
VINCE WISHART
Vince Wishart specializes in emotional fluency, focusing on recovery, communication, and relationships. Through his therapeutic coaching psychotherapy-business, Love Alive (www.lovealive.ca), Vince combines ancient wisdom traditions and modern science to help individuals achieve lasting emotional transformation. With 12 authored books and 6 comprehensive courses, his work empowers clients to navigate life’s challenges with clarity and resilience. Vince’s approach is rooted in fostering deep connections and sustainable growth, offering tools to thrive both personally and relationally. Whether you’re seeking recovery support, communication skills, or relationship healing, Vince provides a pathway to profound emotional well-being. His designations are RTC, NLP
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HANNAH CHESSMAN
FDN is a holistic discipline that bridges the gap between functional medicine and clinical nutrition. It is a science-based holistic approach to investigating and identifying the root cause of health problems. Hannah uses individualized functional lab testing and assessments to identify malfunctions and underlying conditions at the root of most common health complaints.
This functional lab testing focuses on the hormonal, immune, digestion, detoxification, energy production systems, intestinal barrier function, food intolerances, toxic burden and hidden infections such as parasites and bacteria. Just a few examples of labs that Hannah uses are the DUTCH test (comprehensive hormone analysis), Gi-map (digestive testing), OAT test (organic acids test), HTMA (Hair tissue mineral analysis).
Hannah takes a deep dive into lifestyle, environment, stress, mental emotional factors and works on those alongside addressing things that may have popped up on the lab testing. She then employs a combination of interventions including therapeutic diets, sleep hygiene, exercise recommendations, stress reduction strategies, emotional and spiritual therapies, supplementation protocols and much more.
LOCATED IN THE HEART OF NELSON, BC
REBALANCE
NELSON'S WELLNESS COLLECTIVE
