Our partners include Dr. Alexandra Tumbach, Naturopathic Doctor, Panacea Massage and Wellness and Dr. Renee Taylor, Nicole Oliver Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist and Stillwater Wellness Counselling. Our partners work independently to provide you with the best health and wellness services and share resources, referrals and a beautiful clinic/learning space. Learn more about our partners and their offerings below.
Dr. Alexandra Tumbach, nd
Naturopathic medicine is a distinct form of health care that combines scientific research, natural therapies, and traditional wisdom. Naturopathic doctors focus on comprehensive assessment and diagnosis, disease prevention, and supporting your body’s intrinsic self-healing mechanisms. We provide holistic solutions to not only treat a vast range of conditions, but to restore and maintain optimal health & well-being.
As a primary care provider, Dr. Tumbach has a general, family-oriented practice that is inclusive of all individuals. She often sees patients with low energy, stress & anxiety, digestive complaints, allergies, and immune dysfunction. She has a particular interest in environmental medicine, hormonal imbalances, mental wellness & digestive health.
Dr. Tumbach is deeply passionate about supporting her patients through empowerment, sustainability and creating a sense of community. A few of her naturopathic therapies include botanical medicine, counseling, acupuncture & hydrotherapy.
For more information, please visit her website.
Dr. Renee Taylor Acupunture & tcm
Renee Taylor is a warm, caring and experienced doctor of Chinese medicine. She graduated from the acclaimed international College of TCM is 2006 and has vast experience treating people from all walks of life for a vast amount of conditions using a variety of Chinese medicine acupuncture styles and techniques, as well as Herbal medicine.
As a passionate Doctor of Acupuncture and Chinese Medicine, Renee loves the interconnectedness and holistic principles which govern Chinese Medicine diagnostics and treatments and how she is able to help ease her client’s symptoms and help them achieve and maintain greater health and well-being.
Renee co-founded, owned and worked at Acumamas Wellness Center in Vancouver for more than a decade while she had a strong focused practice in reproductive medicine focusing on menstrual Heath, Fertility, Pregnancy and birth acupuncture. She had the great honour in supporting thousands of clients during their baby-making journey’s and had the gift of witnessing over a hundred births.
Renee is currently enjoying a mixed practice in the Comox Valley seeing patients for all conditions and complaints including women’s health from menstruation to menopause, pregnancy, natural and assisted fertility, digestive disorders, sleep dissorders, Pain, PTSD, oncology, dermatology, paediatrics. She also treats veterans and is registered with ICBC.
Tina Presta, Registered Counsellor, Stillwater Wellness
Panacea Massage and Wellness
We offer Registered Massage Therapy. We have a team of 6 RMT’s with a wide variety of styles and practice focuses including Cranial Sacral Therapy, IASTM, pregnancy massage, massage therapy for children, sports massage, injury pre-habilitation and rehabilitation.
RMTs work with illness, injury and disability in diverse and broad patient populations.
We direct bill to most insurance companies. We offer evening and weekend appointments and online booking!
We are currently accepting new patients.
Book Online- www.panaceawellness.ca
Nicole Oliver Registered Social Worker & Psychotherapist
As a Master Level Social Worker providing somatic-based psychotherapy and a Certified Yoga Teacher, my therapeutic style is wholistic.I am specialized in working with adults, treating complex trauma (C-PTSD), intergenerational trauma, and childhood attachment and relational injuries. In working with trauma survivors, I am also experienced in working with those living with depression, anxiety, persistent pain, and substance use challenges, which are often rooted in trauma. I am most experienced in supporting adults with complex trauma, concurrent disorders, and developmental injuries stemming from adverse childhood experiences. For most of my career, I have had tremendous opportunities and the honour to work with First Nations communities, from Six Nations of the Grand River Territory (Canada’s largest reserve based on population) to Nuxalk Territory. I have worked in publicly funded healthcare roles in community mental health and substance use settings, primacy care, and acute emergency care. I am the former Clinical Team Lead for a private mental health organization that provided both housed treatment and community-based psychotherapy for persons with complex mental health conditions and concurrent disorders. In my ten-plus year’s experience, I have witnessed within everyone I have worked with the innate desire to return to wholeness, connectedness as pack animals and spiritual beings. Traversing between the internal landscape of one’s body-mind-emotions-spirit and the wider external systems that impact an individual, such as culture, community, socioeconomics, family, and beyond are all important touch stones for us to explore. I have completed my Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Level 2 with the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy. Institute, which is somatic (body) based psychotherapy. Sensorimotor Psychotherapy recognizes the body as a wise healer. We work with movement, sensation, and five-sense perception, not just emotions and cognitions. Trauma first and foremost affects the body, and talk therapy alone is rarely enough. Our bodies hold onto our lifelong experiences – the wounding, wondrous, and restorative. In the early phase of treatment, we will develop resources for improved autonomic nervous system modulation and emotional regulation. This paves the way for trauma reprocessing with somatic sequencing and or reinstating defensive responses to bring resolution of incomplete stress cycles held in the body. Progressing to studying, tending, and befriending adaptive strategies (protective survival parts) and child-state parts work integration to care for developmental and relational injuries. I support persons to access the wisdom of their bodies, the parts of the body that know how to heal old and unconscious patterns that are interfering with living a fuller life. Together we can explore what might be holding you back, softening the stuck parts, creating more openness for personal growth, loving connection, and transformation.
Now accepting new clients.
Please email KathrynNicole.Oliver@gmail.com to arrange a no-charge 15-minute consultation.
Refer to my Psychology Today or Sensorimotor Psychotherapy listing for more information:
Nicole Oliver, Registered Social Worker, Comox, BC, V9M | Psychology Today -
https://www.psychologytoday.com/ca/therapists/nicole-oliver-comox-bc/1111024
Nicole Oliver, MSW, RSW, MA - Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute
https://sensorimotorpsychotherapy.org/therapist-directory/nicole-oliver-msw-rsw-ma/
Fee $180/hour.
I accept interact e-transfers and payments via credit card with the secure Stripe payment platform.
I direct bill with:
First Nation Health Authority Pacific Blue Cross Benefits as a Registered Mental Health
Provided with First Nations Health Authority
Medavie Blue Cross: Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Canadian Armed Forces, and Veterans Affairs Canada
Please consult with your benefit provider to explore whether psychotherapy/counselling provided by a Registered Social Worker (MSW, RSW) is covered under your unique plan. Receipts are provided to submit to your benefits provider for reimbursement.
As Registered Social Workers are regulated healthcare providers and considered medical practitioners, my services also qualify for Medical Expense Tax Credit (METC); receipts provided.
Stillwater Wellness
Tina Presta, Counsellor (CCPCPR. Cand)
Hello, I’m Tina Presta. At Stillwater Wellness, we support individuals navigating life’s inevitable changes—offering a space to pause, reflect, and move forward with clarity. Whether you’re feeling emotionally stretched, managing relationship strain, adjusting to a new phase of life, or craving a stronger connection to yourself, I provide a warm, compassionate, and non-judgmental space where your story is heard and honoured. My approach is personalised and practical—drawing f rom psychodynamic, cognitive behavioural, and mindfulness based therapies to support emotional regulation, self awareness, and long-term growth. Every client is unique, and I tailor each session with care, insight, and respect.
Specialties & Areas of Focus
I specialize in supporting people through times of transition and uncertainty—particularly those who feel stuck, overwhelmed, or ready for something to shift. I often work with individuals who are:
Navigating emotional stress, career changes, or relationship challenges
Experiencing anxiety, burnout, or a loss of direction
Exploring people-pleasing patterns or seeking more authentic connection
Adjusting to phases of life ; retirement, relocation, or shifts in lifestyle or identity
Managing caregiving responsibilities or changes in health and well-being
With prior experience in military healthcare, I offer informed support to Canadian Armed Forces members and their partners. I understand the unique demands of service life and provide a safe space to explore identity, resilience, and mental well-being.
Who I Work With
Clients who are ready to reflect, grow, and gain practical strategies for living with greater alignment. My work is best suited for those who value self-inquiry, compassionate guidance, and steady support through change.
Credentials
CCPCPR. Cand (Canadian College of Professional Counsellors and Psychotherapists, Candidate) Based in the Comox Valley | In-person & virtual appointments available
Lets Connect
Wherever you are in your journey, you don’t have to navigate it alone—I’m here to walk alongside you with compassion, presence, and care. I look forward to speaking with you.
Book An Appointment: https://stillwaterwellnesscounselling.janeapp.com/
Learn More:
www.wellnessatstillwater.com
Reach out:
tina@wellnessatstillwater.com