Our Team
REGISTERED PSYCHOLOGISTS & MENTAL HEALTH PRACTITIONERS
Brian Welling, MA, BA
Registered Psychologist
Brian currently sees individual adults for a wide range of issues, including, but not limited to trauma, addictions, personal growth, grief and loss, relationship and communication issues, existential issues, adjustment issues, depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety, personality disorders, anger management, high functioning autism, and psychosis.
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Carly Colasimone, BA, MA
Certified Canadian Counsellor, Registered Provisional Psychologist
Carly is an empathic, thoughtful, and easy-going individual who is devoted to helping those going through stressful and difficult times. Carly has been influenced by the work of Carl Rogers, Carl Jung, and Alfred Adler. She works from a client-centered approach with the belief that clients are the experts of their own lives. She emphasizes building strong therapeutic relationships. Carly is also heavily influenced by cognitive-behavioural methods. Carly’s goal is to create a safe and supportive environment for all her clients. Her clinical interests include working with depression, stress, and anxiety.
Each 50-minute session with Carly is available for a $175 fee.
Ken Creegan, BACAP, MC, RTC
Psychotherapist
Ken is an intuitive, empathic, and compassionate therapist who is committed to helping people understand themselves and create positive and meaningful change in their lives.
Ken draws heavily from “depth therapy” and is influenced by Jungian, psychoanalytic, and Gestalt perspectives while also holding a humanistic lens, which states that at their core people are ultimately good.
Each 50-minute session with Ken is available for a $160 fee.
Wendy Myshak, BA, RTC, CT
Registered Therapeutic Counsellor, Psychotherapist
Wendy is a heart centred, intuitive, counsellor who takes an integrative approach to therapy in the areas of addiction and recovery, stress, depression, spiritual emergency, and generational trauma. Wendy is trained in Transpersonal Counselling Psychology, and is a Registered Therapeutic Counsellor with integrated and lived experiences that support deep healing.
Wendy’s goal is to help people understand their issues and uncover positive ways to move past them and integrate this new awareness into their lives. She is skilled at creating a psychologically safe space to do this deep work and to wake up from the illusions of the ego mind of form and fear.
Each 50-minute session with Wendy is available for a $100 fee.
Lisa Harder, BA, MA
Certified Canadian Councellor, Registered Provisional Psychologist
Lisa is an empathetic, compassionate individual who strives to help everyone recognize their own strength, resiliency, and worth in a safe environment. She graduated with a Master’s degree in Counselling Psychology from Yorkville University and is currently both a Canadian Certified Counsellor and a Registered Provisional Psychologist.
Lisa believes a client-centered, holistic approach to counselling is key. She is influenced by psychodynamic and humanistic approaches, in addition to cognitive-behavioural and solution-focused methods. Lisa has completed Level 2 Training in Gottman Method Couples Therapy, and also recently completed training in Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy.
Lisa is currently on maternity leave.
REGISTERED MASSAGE THERAPIST
Scarlet Powell
Registered Massage Therapist
Scarlet’s technique is slow, rhythmic, and gradual as she thoroughly treats areas of soft tissue dysfunction. She works by the principle that calming the nervous system invites muscles to soften and treatment to be most effective. Therefore, though she uses deep tissue, active release, PNF stretching, and trigger point release techniques when appropriate, the overall experience is deeply relaxing.
Tenille Tellman
Registered Massage Therapist
Tenille’s massage treatments are therapeutic in nature – blending deep tissue, myofascial release, muscle energy and relaxation techniques for a comprehensive approach. As a student at the Canadian School of Osteopathy, her treatments can include more advanced structural assessment plus craniosacral, fluid and visceral techniques, if preferred.
Surangika Udugama
Registered Massage Therapist
Surangika is a registered massage therapist in good standing with the Canadian Massage and Manuel Osteopathic Therapists Association. Surangika graduated from MH VICARS massage therapy college where she received a thorough education in anatomy, physiology, and assessment, and learned treatment approaches for concerns such as muscle pain and tension, headaches, stress, postural imbalances, muscle-related nerve compression syndromes, and more!
OSTEOPATHIC MANUAL THERAPY (OMT)
Theresa Dextrase
Osteopathic Manual Therapy (OMT)
A session with Theresa involves primarily gentle osteopathic palpation and manipulation. She hopes to bring you more in touch with how you are living in your body, and your internal resources. All work takes place within your comfort.
Theresa has been a health professional since 1995. She completed a 7-year program with the Canadian School of Osteopathy—Manual Practice (Vancouver Campus) in April of 2016. She won a research award for her thesis, A Qualitative study of the Osteopathic Manual Therapist as Educator in Clinical Practice and thus was entitled to and completed an extra year of advanced studies with the main campus of the college in Montréal, Collège d’Études Ostéopathique.
OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR
Michelle Marien
Office Administrator
Michelle is the first friendly face encountered upon arrival at Welling Centre, and the helpful voice on the other end of the phone. In addition to reception, she handles much of the daily operations. Outgoing, kind, and empathetic, Michelle’s strong desire to be of service led her to a wide variety of previous work experiences, ranging from working with children as a nanny, art, and day camp instructor, to furniture upholstery and shipping, and working in a destructive testing laboratory as a materials engineering technologist. Michelle truly embraces her “Jill-of-all-trades” personality, putting many of her accumulated skills to work at Welling Centre.
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