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Weekend massage is here.Levi is in Saturdays. Holly is in Sundays. If the week never slows down enough to book, the week...
09/09/2026

Weekend massage is here.

Levi is in Saturdays. Holly is in Sundays. If the week never slows down enough to book, the weekend just became your option.

Both are now taking new clients. Link in bio.

Most people who struggle with sleep have tried everything except the thing that actually addresses the underlying cause....
09/03/2026

Most people who struggle with sleep have tried everything except the thing that actually addresses the underlying cause.

Melatonin manages a symptom. Acupuncture works on the system that is creating the symptom. Sleep is regulated by the nervous system and by hormonal rhythms that cortisol, stress, and chronic tension disrupt over time. When those patterns are stuck, you lie awake even when you are exhausted. You fall asleep fine but wake at 2am and cannot get back down. You wake up tired no matter how many hours you got.

Acupuncture calms the sympathetic nervous system, supports melatonin and serotonin production, and addresses the specific pattern behind your sleep disruption. It is not a sedative. It is a reset.

Samantha McLean is a registered acupuncturist at Parksville Wellness Collective. She is in the clinic Wednesdays and Thursdays. Direct billing available through most extended health plans.

Book with Samantha. Link in bio.
📍 135 Jensen Ave E, Parksville BC

Cold and flu season does not start in winter. It starts the first week of school.Every September it is the same. The kid...
09/03/2026

Cold and flu season does not start in winter. It starts the first week of school.

Every September it is the same. The kids go back and within two weeks someone in the house is sick. Your immune system has been in summer mode and it is not ready for what walks through that door.

The good news is you can get ahead of it.

Halotherapy clears the respiratory tract and creates an environment that bacteria and viruses struggle to survive in. Infrared sauna raises your core temperature mimicking a fever response, triggering white blood cell production and moving your lymphatic system. Acupuncture works directly on the nervous system to lower cortisol and regulate your immune response. Chronic stress is one of the biggest suppressors of immunity and most people are carrying more of it than they realize heading into fall.

All three are available at Parksville Wellness Collective. Acupuncture with Samantha with direct billing available through most extended health plans.

Evan just added Thursdays.You can now book with him Mondays and Thursdays at Parksville Wellness Collective. If you have...
08/21/2026

Evan just added Thursdays.

You can now book with him Mondays and Thursdays at Parksville Wellness Collective. If you have been waiting for a time that works, this probably does.

Evan is a Manual Osteopath with a background in sports and human kinetics. He works with people dealing with chronic pain, recurring injuries, movement restrictions, and anything that has not fully responded to other treatment.

Book with Evan. Link in bio.

Holly just added more days.You can now find her in the clinic Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. More options...
08/07/2026

Holly just added more days.

You can now find her in the clinic Sundays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Thursdays. More options, more flexibility, easier to fit into your week.

Holly has been practicing since 2018 and brings a background in spa therapy to her RMT practice. Her sessions are effective and genuinely relaxing. If you have been wanting to book with her and the timing has not worked, now it probably does.

Book with Holly Link in bio.

You have probably heard of chiropractic. You have probably had a massage. Osteopathy is neither of those things.Chiropra...
08/05/2026

You have probably heard of chiropractic. You have probably had a massage. Osteopathy is neither of those things.

Chiropractic focuses primarily on the spine and joints. The goal is alignment through manipulation.

Massage works on soft tissue. Muscle, fascia, circulation. It releases what is tight.

Osteopathy works on the whole body as a connected system. Bone, muscle, fascia, fluid, nerve. An osteopath is trained to assess how restrictions in one area create compensation and dysfunction somewhere else entirely. The problem showing up in your shoulder may be tracing back to your hip. The headache you keep getting may be connected to tension in your thoracic spine.

Treatment is hands on and gentle. No cracking required.

Evan Ashley is a Manual Osteopath now at Parksville Wellness Collective. Currently booking Mondays. If you have been dealing with something that has not responded to other treatment, this is worth a conversation.

Book with Evan. Link in bio.

Have you booked with Liz yet?Liz Baerg is a registered clinical counsellor at Parksville Wellness Collective with over 2...
07/30/2026

Have you booked with Liz yet?
Liz Baerg is a registered clinical counsellor at Parksville Wellness Collective with over 20 years of experience working with teens, adults, and couples through life transitions, grief, trauma, and everything in between. She holds a Bachelor in Human Services and a Master in Counselling and brings a warmth to the room that makes it easy to actually show up.
She draws on solution focused therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and somatic approaches depending on what you need. Blue Cross direct billing available.
Liz is booking up. Monday, Thursday, and Friday.
Link in bio.

Self care is not a bath bomb.It is the thing you keep putting off because it feels indulgent. The appointment you cancel...
07/30/2026

Self care is not a bath bomb.
It is the thing you keep putting off because it feels indulgent. The appointment you cancelled because something came up. The hour you gave to everyone else before you gave it to yourself.
Here is what self care actually looks like in a body that is running on empty. Muscle that will not release no matter how much you stretch it. A nervous system that cannot downregulate even when nothing is wrong. A bladder that leaks when you laugh. A brain that cannot stop even when you tell it to. A jaw that is clenched before you even get out of bed.
These are not personality traits. They are symptoms. And they are treatable.
Self care is infrastructure. Not a reward for finishing everything else first.
Parksville Wellness Collective. 135 Jensen Ave E. Link in bio.

07/24/2026

Samantha graduated Summa Cum Laude from the Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine program at Pacific Rim College in Victoria. Over 2700 hours of training in acupuncture, herbal medicine, nutrition, and biomedicine. Over 1050 hours of clinical practice before she ever walked into her own treatment room.
That is what you are watching in this video. Not a technique she learned last month. A precision that took years to build.
Samantha is in the clinic Wednesdays and Thursdays. Direct billing available.
Book with Samantha. Link in bio.

Most people do not know their pelvic floor exists until something goes wrong.It is not a single muscle. It is a group of...
07/24/2026

Most people do not know their pelvic floor exists until something goes wrong.
It is not a single muscle. It is a group of muscles, fascia, and connective tissue that runs like a hammock across the base of your pelvis. It holds your organs in place, controls bladder and bowel function, stabilizes your spine, and plays a direct role in sexual function. When it stops working properly the symptoms range from leaking when you laugh or sneeze to chronic pelvic pain to a core that never quite fires right.
Kegels are the standard recommendation. The problem is most people do them wrong, they target the wrong muscles, and even when done correctly they cannot produce the neuromuscular firing depth or speed required to actually retrain a dysfunctional floor.
Emsella uses high intensity focused electromagnetic energy to produce 11,200 pelvic floor contractions in 28 minutes. You sit fully clothed in a chair. The electromagnetic field penetrates the tissue and fires the muscles at a depth and frequency the brain cannot voluntarily replicate. One session is the neuromuscular equivalent of thousands of perfect Kegels.
It is not just postpartum recovery. It is not just for women. Pelvic floor dysfunction affects one in three people and most of them never connect their symptoms to the source.

Complementary consultations available at Parksville Wellness Collective. Link in bio.

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135 Jensen Avenue E
Parksville, BC
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