Parksville Wellness Collective

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.
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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.

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.

Evan is officially in the building.
He's a Manual Osteopath, trained at the National Academy of Osteopathy in Toronto, with a background in kinesiology and sports psychology from the University of Ottawa. Before clinical work, he spent years with varsity athletes, which shows in how he treats: instead of chasing the sore spot, he looks at how the whole body is compensating around it.
Here's the thing: pain is often just where the problem finally showed up, not where it started.
Evan is at the clinic Mondays. Booking is open now.

Most people in Parksville do not know everything that happens inside this building.
Registered massage therapy. Body work. Acupuncture and cupping. Clinical counselling. Pelvic floor therapy. Emsella. Infrared sauna. Red light therapy. Halotherapy. Medical aesthetics. Cosmetic injections.

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📍 135 Jensen Ave E, Parksville BC

Most people sit down for their first counselling session and spend the first five minutes wondering if they are doing it right.
There is no right way to do it.
You do not have to have it figured out before you book. You do not have to know what to say or where to start. You do not have to be in crisis. You can just show up and say I do not know where to begin and that is a completely valid place to start.
Lauren and Liz are both registered clinical counsellors at Parksville Wellness Collective. They work with teens and adults. Blue Cross direct billing available. Lauren is also an ICBC provider.
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Summer is officially here and so is your team.
Whether you have been putting off that massage, finally ready to try acupuncture, need someone to talk to, or have been curious about what we offer for pelvic health, we are here and we are booking.

Samantha · Acupuncture · Wed + Thu
Holly · Registered Massage Therapist · Sat + Sun + Mon
Levi · Body Work · Sat + Mon + Tue
Lauren · Counselling · Mon to Fri
Liz · Counselling · Mon + Thu + Fri
Dr. Iverson · Injectables · Tue + Wed

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📍 135 Jensen Ave E, Parksville BC

Your benefits are there. Let's actually use them.

Lauren Marshall is a registered clinical counsellor at Parksville Wellness Collective and a provider for both Blue Cross and ICBC. That means seeing her is more accessible than you might think.
If you have extended health benefits through Blue Cross, counselling is likely covered. If you have been in a motor vehicle accident, ICBC covers counselling as part of your recovery. Call us for details on how to get started.

Lauren is in the clinic Monday through Friday and currently accepting new clients. She works with teens and adults across anxiety, stress, trauma, grief, relationships, life transitions, and youth therapy.
No referral needed. No complicated process. Just book.
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