Welcome to Healing Hands Integrative Medicine. Healing Hands started in 1996 as a massage therapy clinic. Since then we have grown to offer Naturopathic Medicine, Chiropractic, & Massage Therapy. We are passionate about helping people achieve their best health.
Dr. Joanne Day has been practicing Naturopathic Medicine since 2006, after graduating from the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine in Toronto. She has a passion for using both traditional medicine and cutting edge natural therapies to help her patients overcome their health challenges.
Dr. Day obtained her undergraduate degree in Engineering but after working as an engineer she realized that she was better suited to a job helping people. After leaving Engineering, Joanne spent a year in South America where she became interested in natural medicine after witnessing it being practiced together with conventional medicine.
Dr. Joanne Day began her journey treating pain with Regenerative Injection Therapies (Prolotherapy) after observing Dr. Trevor Hoffman. She witnessed first-hand the benefits his patients were experiencing from his treatments. Since that time, she has taken numerous courses in Prolotherapy, Lyftogt Perineural Injection Treatment, and Neural Therapy to learn as much as she can to help her patients.
Joanne lives in Lacombe, Alberta with her farmer husband and their three children. When not practicing or studying Naturopathic Medicine, Joanne enjoys skiing and camping with her family.
Dr. Nicole Fox has been a chiropractor in Central Alberta since 2005, graduating from Palmer West Chiropractic College in December 2004. Her passion for treating patients with a holistic, head to toe approach has brought many successes throughout her career. A member of the Pro Rodeo Sport Medicine Team since 2005, Dr. Nicole’s experiences treating at rodeos has given her unique and challenging cases.
Having been a massage therapist prior to going to chiropractic college, Dr. Nicole utilizes many soft tissue therapies including A.R.T. ®, Graston Technique®, myofascial cupping, Rockblade, Rock taping (kinesiology taping) and Erchonia cold laser therapy. Additional continuing education training over the past 15 years had included extremity adjusting, visceral manipulation, and Cranial Adjusting Turner Style. Nutritional advice and postural awareness round out the holistic approach.
Dr. Nicole graduated from Palmer College of Chiropractic in February 2021. Before becoming a chiropractor, she was a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) for eight years, specializing in pediatric trauma, and worked in rural hospitals. This gives Dr. Nicole strong experience when working with youth, and growing up on a mixed farm near Cochrane, AB., adds to her understanding of rural healthcare needs and access.
Along with growing up on the farm, Dr. Nicole also spent much of her time around rodeo, both as a rodeo athlete, and having many friends and family in the rodeo community. This offers Dr. Nicole a unique perspective when working with those involved in rodeo, because she too has a passion for the sport and the community.
Dr. Nicole continues to be active in sports and her community. She loves playing ringette, spending time hunting and fishing, golfing and playing softball. She is also a college rugby athlete, and loves learning new sports.
Education
Natalia brings to Healing Hands 20 years of experience in health care. Before emigrating to Canada from her native Russia, Natalia was a Dentist & Orthodontist. Since joining our clinic in June 2012, people have been raving about Natalia’s massages.
Natalia’s services include: Therapeutic Massage, Deep Tissue Massage, Relaxation Massage, CranioSacral Therapy, Abdominal Visceral Massage, Hot Stone Massage and Cupping.
A self-professed “Jill of all trades”, Alisa tried her hand at a few different vocations before finding her home in massage therapy. Her previous job history includes a stint as a voice teacher, a roster singer for a fledgling opera company, and a horseback guide in Banff National Park. In 2011, she turned her attention to Massage Therapy schooling, and has never looked back. She graduated from the Northern Institute of Massage Therapy in 2013, and she’s called Healing Hands her home since 2014.
Alisa loves to really get to know her clientele, and prides herself on her people skills. If she’s not massaging, you can find her singing with a local choir that she chairs, or spending time with her family. She and her husband, Alex, welcomed their first daughter in December of 2019.
At this time, Alisa is not accepting new patients.
Hannah has been practicing massage since September 2013. Starting a career at a young age means she has grown so much as an individual and professional over that time.
Massage has taught her how to care for people from any walk of life. She loves hearing everyones stories and experiences.
In turn she has a passion to find the best treatment for each individual. So that everyone walks out of the massage room happy and with a plan of success to see future improvements.
Hannah enjoys any moment spent with family and friends. Loves getting outdoors, whether that’s walking, beach time or playing in the snow. But can still be caught cuddled up on the couch reading a book to her daughter on those suboptimal days.
Nicole grew up in Lacombe and moved to British Columbia when she got married. 27 years later she returned to her hometown in order to spend more time with family. She always knew she wanted to work in the healthcare field in the hope of helping others. It was when she herself had her first massage that she found her calling and hasn’t looked back since.
Nicole graduated from the 3000 hour West Coast College of Massage Therapy program in British Columbia in 2001. She has spent the last 21 years honing her skills. She built a thriving practice in BC by focusing to not only meet, but exceed her clients expectations each and every time she saw them. Nicole strongly believes in the benefits of massage therapy. Not only in treating ‘injuries’ but also in the prevention, maintenance, and stress reduction in each of her clients. Nicole’s goal is to work with her clients to facilitate their journey towards greater health and wellness.
When not at work, Nicole enjoys hiking, baking, and spending time with her family.
Bio to come
Alexandra (Alex) is our Laser Technician here at Healing Hands, working alongside our Physicians to administer Cold Laser therapy. Alex was born in Edmonton and lived in Vermillion, AB before moving to Ponoka, AB at the age of 6. She graduated from St. Augustine Catholic school in Ponoka and went on to obtain a Bachelor’s Degree in History and Kinesiology from the University of Alberta. Before coming to Healing Hands, Alex worked at Ponoka Physio and LIberty Chiropractic in Edmonton.
Alex gives her all into enriching the lives of others. She is extremely empathetic and caring about the quality of life of her patients. When not at the Clinic, Alex enjoys playing video games with her friends and spending Sundays at home watching movies with her Husband.
Robin McKay combines her unique set of skills from a 35 year career as an RN with Jin Shin Jyutsu® to help others achieve harmony and balance within themselves, their groups, and even with their animals and pets. As an RN, she successfully worked in bedside nursing, management, education and group facilitation. During that time, she noticed a missing piece of healing and feels she has found that within Jin Shin Jyutsu.
For the past 13 years she has followed her passion in working with individual clients to restore their mental, physical, emotional, and spiritual balance through hands-on energy work as well as teaching them self-help methods. She also practices hands-on work with animals and teaches their owners to do the same.
Originally from the USA, Robin has lived and worked in Canada since 1989. She lives in Red Deer with her husband Roger and their dog Foxy. She spends most of her free time golfing, camping, and working with rescue animals.
I was born and raised in Lacombe and now call Ponoka home. I attended MacEwan University in Edmonton, where I graduated with my Bachelor of Science in Nursing. I began working in health care in 2018. After graduating, I gained experience as a floor and charge nurse in a rural hospital. My experiences have included emergency, acute care, labour and delivery, and postpartum.
I am currently studying Holistic Nutrition through the Edison Institute of Nutrition and am very excited to further expand my knowledge in holistic health. I have always had a passion for natural medicine and all things wellness. When I was offered the opportunity to become a part of the Healing Hands team, my love for nursing and holistic health made it an obvious choice.
When I am not at Healing Hands, you can often find me in the kitchen cooking new recipes. I also have a love for running, staying active, and many different outdoor activities including camping, hiking, and fishing.
Robyn has been the steadfast captain steering the Healing Hands ship since 2015. In addition to keeping the clinic running smoothly behind the scenes, she’s a trained medical laboratory assistant and you can find her assisting Dr. Day with patient care. She prides herself on the personal touch she adds to the patient experience at Healing Hands, and she never forgets a face!
She’s passionate about animals, and has previously funneled that passion into working for a veterinarian. She’s a loyal dog lover—her English bulldog, Hustler, is the apple of her eye! When she is not working, you will find Robyn digging into a good book, or camping with her husband!
Jacqui is a busy wife and mom to 3 boys, as well as a daughter in-law joining the family. Together with her husband they have raised their family here in Lacombe. She has been involved with her children in their various sports from hockey, to baseball and lacrosse. She has been to almost every arena in Alberta. She has volunteered with various positions within Lacombe Minor Hockey, and finishing with office administration after 14 years.
When not working you can always find her racing to an arena to watch as many of her kids’ sports as she can. Along with the many sporting events, they also operate a grain/cattle farm with family in the Stettler area. Jacqui has always had a passion for health and wellness as well as helping people.
