Felicity Klimstra
Felicity Klimstra’s wholehearted passion is physiotherapy and healing. Her intent is to truly listen to your challenges/goals and to help you reach your greatest potential. She has extensive experience working with individuals with all areas of injury/pain including high performance athletes.
Her love of the ‘art of healing’ is clear as she combines high-level education and current research with traditional healing modalities. This includes ConnectTherapy™, The Thoracic Ring Approach™, Manual Therapy, Dry Needling as well as techniques to calm the Nervous System to facilitate healing. She aspires to provide compassionate, empathetic, professional care.
Identifying the primary cause of your problem, the true ‘Driver’ of the issue, is of key importance. Then rehabilitation and treatment can focus on the Driver, leading to to lasting pain relief and restoration of function and performance!
In addition to providing leadership to her bustling clinic, she is a mentor to physiotherapists who are pursuing the Advanced Orthopaedic Levels or looking to build their clinical reasoning/handling skills. She also mentors team members in ConnectTherapy.
EDUCATION:
Certified ConnectTherapy™ Practitioner (https://ljlee.ca/teaching-models/connecttherapy/)
ConnectTherapy™ Series, Part 4, Thoracic Ring Approach™ (https://ljlee.ca/teaching-models/the-thoracic-ring-approach/)
Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Manipulative Physiotherapy (FCAMPT) (https://manippt.org)
KinetaCore Dry Needling Level 1 & 2 (IMS or DN)
Acupuncture Canada Certification AA1 & AA2 (CAFCI)
Masters in Physical Therapy at UBC (MPT)
Bachelors in Kinesiology at UVic (BSc Kin (Hon.))
*All of Felicity’s education cannot be listed here, but this gives you an idea of her areas of expertise. She always seeks to find the most efficient and effective treatment styles for each individual.