Meet The Team

Dr. Bourret, N.D. is a graduate from the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine and member of the Ontario Association of Naturopathic Doctors (OAND), Canadian Association of Naturopathic Doctors (CAND) and licensed under the College of Naturopaths of Ontario (CONO).

Through her education, training and professional/personal experiences, Dr. Bourret’s interest, passion and practice philosophy is on Functional Medicine and optimizing health through all stages of life. She focuses on evidence-based Nutrition & Lifestyle Modification, Traditional Chinese Medicine & Acupuncture, Botanicals & Nutraceutical Orthomolecular Medicine, mental/mood & emotional wellness, digestive & endocrine issues, with a clinical specialty, passion and LOVE for skin health and dermatological issues. She is a certified DermaSpark skin treatment provider and Mei Zen Acupuncturist, an advanced, specialized and intricate form of cosmetic facial & neck rejuvenation, also used to treat weight loss and fertility.

By combining Eastern and Western Medicine approaches she provides patients a full “360” experience, identifying root cause diagnosis and treatment, while guiding you to feel, look and be YOUR best.

With intention and commitment to solving your health problems, Dr. Bourret uses cutting-edge powerful, practical and proactive solutions that give you RESULTS. She believes wellness partnership is key to motivating you on your Rapid Action Plan (yes, sometimes we break out into a RAP!) to a vitality you have yet to experience….and the endless possibilities this brings into your life.

Dr. Santiago believes that health and happiness come down to feeling good in your own skin – from the inside out. Her mission as a naturopathic doctor is to educate, empower and support her patients in finding the perfect balance in a healthy lifestyle. She offers personalized care by addressing the underlying causes of disease, and provides natural solutions by blending both traditional healing methods with modern evidence-based therapies. She has a clinical focus in women’s health and hormonal imbalances.

Dr. Santiago completed her Doctor of Naturopathy at the Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine (CCNM) in Toronto with training in Clinical Nutrition, Botanical/Herbal Medicine, Traditional Chinese Medicine, Acupuncture, and Lifestyle Counselling. She has additional training as a birth doula, and holds a certificate in facial rejuvenation & cosmetic acupuncture. Dr. Santiago is registered with College of Naturopaths of Ontario (CONO), and is a member of the Canadian Association of Naturopathic Doctors (CAND) and the Ontario Association of Naturopathic Doctors (OAND).

Loren Harssar is a Toronto, born and raised intuitive healer of many disciplines. For the past 7 years, she has focused her life on her spiritual journey of healing herself and her past traumas and along this process discovering her ability to not only heal herself, but to help with the process of healing others as well. Loren received her yoga teacher training and thai massage level 3 certificate while living in Brazil and these elements add even more to her experience as a healer. She has always been an artist and ranges in many methods of artistic expression since she was quite young and each expression has brought and continues to bring something amazing into her life. She is a dancer, singer, percussionist, photographer, videographer, yogi and writer. She always found her many art forms to be very therapeutic for her. This was a big part of her inspiration into the career of art therapy and psychotherapy. Her main areas of professional experience are in mental health and addiction: ranging in severity from acute patients in inpatient psychiatry to the average person experiencing mental health problems and did her masters level thesis in psychotherapy/art therapy working with homeless women. The therapeutic approaches she implores are person centred and incorporates Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavioural Therapy (DBT) and mindfulness and art directives when necessary. Her other healing modalities include thai massage, spiritual transformation coaching, relationship counselling and yoga teaching.

Certifications:
-CRPO (College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario) Qualifying Registered Psychotherapist
-Art Therapy master’s degree equivalent diploma from Toronto Art Therapy Institute (DTATI)
-Bachelor’s degree of fine art from Ontario College of Art and Design University
-500 Hour Hatha Yoga Teacher (including meditation and pranayama)
-Level 3 Thai Massage Practitioner

Christina studied Life Science at University of Toronto, then went on to earn a Naturopathic degree in London, England; a Bachelor’s Degree of Complimentary Medicine; and a diploma of Herbal Medicine. She has always had a keen interest in how the body works and the complex nature of disease. This was brought into focus when she suffered her own health struggles with an autoimmune disease and inflammatory bowel disorder. In 2007, Christina completed training to become a Colon Hydrotherapist and this opened a whole new world of Functional Medicine. Since then she has focused on searching for root causes, rather than merely treating symptoms.

In 2018, Christina joined Shannon at Microcell Sciences to focus more on the microbiology of disease and how it circulates through every part of our body via the blood, starting her on a fascinating journey.

Through Christina’s work, she has developed an intimate knowledge and understanding of the body and more specifically the blood, continuing to learn as science provides more and more pieces of the puzzle. Through the complex and often very ill individuals she meets, Christina is constantly reminded of how intelligent the body is and the importance of ‘Preventative Medicine’.

Christina feels blessed to have become part of an amazing group of practitioners, who have allowed her to optimize her own health and continually provide an opportunity to expand knowledge of health as a functional and dynamic entity.