Anne Colin
Osteopathic Practitioner
M.Ost, OsteopathyBC, GOsC (UK)
Originally from France, Anne studied for four years full time at the European School of Osteopathy, in Maidstone (England). She graduated in 2012 with an integrated Masters degree in Osteopathy (M.Ost) delivered by the University of Greenwich.
She then moved to the North of England where she worked for four years amongst incredible osteopaths from various backgrounds, in a very paediatric-oriented practice. This led her to pursue additional training in paediatrics, obstetrics, and to volunteer at the Osteopathic Centre for Children in London, UK, for a year.
This wonderful experience allowed her to treat a very diverse population, without concerns of socio-economic backgrounds and to develop her knowledge and skills in treating babies, children and adolescents, as well as pregnant and postpartum patients. She carried this particular interest through into her private practice where she began treating within a Children’s clinic, where Osteopathic Practitioners would treat patients together.
These years in England where Osteopathy is well recognized, allowed her access to a wide range of patients and their issues, and to exchange with various healthcare professionals in order to provide the best patient care possible. She did post graduate courses in sports injuries, taping, osteopathy and running, low back surgeries, diagnosis and management of dementia, naturopathy, positive communication and yoga.
This life long learning commitment that comes with working with the human body, heart and mind, as well as a desire for travel and change made Anne leave the UK for South America where she spent two years volunteering in various places : some were long-running, organised solidarity missions with the school of Osteopathy of Montreal (CEO) in Peru, where she learned about osteopathy in Canada, and France, by working closely with Osteopathic Practitioners from these countries. There was an opportunity to treat in paediatric rehabilitation clinics, with local Physiotherapists, in a center for abused women and girls, while being exposed to a population that carried a different history, different traumas and medical conditions. Independently, Anne also provided osteopathy within local hospitals, communities, families and Not-For-Profit organizations in Chile, Bolivia and Colombia.
The move to Canada was an opportunity that arose a year ago, after having encountered various Osteopathic Practitioners with that background. It is exciting to discover a new country, and is also a great opportunity to learn from our differences and have access to other post graduate courses, such as the Biodynamic phases developed by Dr. Jim Jealous, or Anatomy Trains with Tom Myers, etc.
Anne believes that Osteopathy is a tool that has the potential to help the body reunite with its self-healing and self-regulating mechanisms, and can support you back to health. Anne aims to understand the causes and contributing factors of the problems that have brought you to see her, which drives her to consider your body as a whole during examination and treatment. This is in order to provide a mutually agreed, individually tailored treatment plan. She also likes to include exercises and advice, as appropriate.
She employs a wide variety of techniques, ranging from gentle articulation of the joints and soft-tissue massage, muscle energy and visceral techniques to fascial work. Anne has a special interest in working with the cranio-sacral system using the principles of osteopathy in the cranial field. This allows her to treat everyone from babies through to the elderly.
Anne is registered with the regulatory body of Osteopathic Practitioners in the United Kingdom, the General Osteopathic Council, and is a member of OsteopathyBC in Canada, formerly Society for the Promotion of Manual Practice Osteopathy (BC).
Her other interests include yoga, hiking, skiing, surfing and travelling.