Dr. Joan Shaben | Dr. Paula Dowie | Kaitlyn Culford | Holly MacGougan
Dr. Joan Shaben is a highly skilled professional with more than 20 years experience in a multidisciplinary environment. The doors to Lendrum Health Centre were opened by Dr. Joan in July of 1999. For more than two decades she has gathered a number of excellent practitioners together who are committed to the health and wellness of each person who enters the clinic. She is experienced in working in an acute care environment providing assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation of neuromusculoskeletal injuries as well as wellness care. She has a solid background in working with other healthcare professionals to provide the most appropriate care for you, the patient. From lifestyle changes, nutritional advice, exercises, supplement recommendations and child and maternal care, Dr. Joan is committed to seeing healthy changes in you.
Dr. Joan Shaben is proficient in several chiropractic techniques including Webster technique, diversified technique, activator technique, sacro-occipital technique, cranial sacral technique, and active release therapy.
Encouraging a healthy lifestyle is central to the philosophy of Dr. Joan. Whether that is exercise, diet, nutrition, supplements, or lifestyle changes, Dr. Joan and the team at Lendrum Health Centre are committed to helping you achieve your greatest potential.
Dr. Paula’s journey with chiropractic care began as a child at Lendrum Health Centre—an experience that sparked a lifelong passion for natural healing. She went on to graduate Magna Cum Laude from Life Chiropractic College West and now serves her community with the same care and commitment that first inspired her. Dr. Paula specializes in the Gonstead Technique, and her mission is to help people reconnect with the innate healing potential of their bodies.
The nervous system is how your brain controls and coordinates everything in your body. Nerve signals travel from the brain, down the spinal cord, and exit through openings between the vertebrae—controlling everything from muscle movement to organ function. When these spinal bones become misaligned, the openings for the nerves can narrow or become blocked, disrupting the flow of nerve signals. This interference can lead to pain, loss of function, or degeneration in different parts of the body. Even everyday issues like headaches can be the result of nerve pressure caused by a spinal misalignment. The Gonstead Technique uses a detailed system of analysis—including visualization, static and motion palpation, instrumentation, and X-rays—to detect spinal misalignments (or subluxations). Once identified, the specific segment is gently adjusted by hand to restore proper alignment. This takes pressure off the nerves, improves joint movement, and most importantly, reconnects the brain and body so they can work together the way they’re meant to. When that connection is restored, your body can begin to heal and function at its best.
Kaitlyn graduated from Makami College in April 2018 with 3000 hours of hands on experience. Since then, Kaitlyn has deepened her interest in proper movement and how it can go hand-in-hand with massage to meet your wellness and pain management goals.
Kaitlyn’s modalities include therapeutic, deep tissue, pain relief, and cupping. In addition to massage, Kaitlyn has completed her 200 hr Yoga Teacher Training in December 2019.
Kaitlyn has really enjoyed incorporating the importance of proper movement, stretching, and strengthening into her treatments for her clients to do at home. Kaitlyn always insures her clients are set up for success with an individualized treatment plan and home care.
Kaitlyn also has plans to expand her practice with Craniosacral Therapy, TMJ disfunction, and eventually, Acupuncture.
Outside of massage, Kaitlyn is interested in nutrition and holistic wellness. When she isn’t massaging or doing yoga, Kaitlyn loves to check out local restaurants and cafes and being out in nature with her dog.
Holly has been a registered massage therapist with the NHPC since 2003. She has enjoyed furthering her education with many continuing education massage therapy programs over the years as well as in many adjacent fields including Upledger's Craniosacral Therapy, Barral's Visceral Manipulation, D'Ambrogio's Total Body Balancing, Til Luchau's Advanced Myofascial Techniques to highlight some of her favorites.
Taking her education further, Holly graduated from the Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture program at Grant MacEwan University in 2012 and is registered through the CAAA. She has especially enjoyed continuing education in Sports Medicine Acupuncture.
Currently Holly is working on and will soon be graduating from the Body Intelligence program Biodynamic Craniosacral Therapy. This program has sparked her deep interest in the nervous system, trauma resolution and our body’s deep intelligence and healing potential.
Holly offers specific modality treatments or a combination of modalities, dependant on her client’s wants and needs. Holly believes client education and participation in their health is key. Her main goal is to provide a safe healing environment to meet clients where they are at in their healing journey and to offer her skills as tools to help clients ignite the amazing healing potential their bodies have.