New Partnership Brings Rising Tides Healing Centre to Saint John
SAINT JOHN — Grand Bay’s Rising Tides Healing Centre is expanding its services in a new collaboration with another local healthcare provider.
The therapy clinic, located at 192 River Valley Drive in Grand Bay-Westfield, is expanding into Saint John and further throughout the province. The clinic will join forces with Town Health Solutions at 96 Stanley Street on April 3, moving much, but not all, of its operations there. The clinic will also reach out at the seven other Town Health locations across southern New Brunswick.
“It’s going to be a really positive thing to join forces to our knowledge. I don’t think there is a lot of clinics that are centred so much towards the blending of mental and physical health care,” says clinic owner Lori MacIsaac Brewsher. “That would be the main thing that I’m excited about.”
MacIsaac Brewsher wants the people of Grand Bay to know that despite this change, Rising Tides will continue to be a strong part of the community.
“This isn’t shutting down. This isn’t leaving the community. This is actually an opportunity to grow and spread and to be able to offer services to more people,” MacIsaac Brewsher says.
While the River Valley Drive building is for sale, Rising Tides will stay in the neighbourhood with a location at the Canadian Chiropractic and Wellness Centre, which is also on River Valley Drive. The CCWC is also affiliated with Town Health, which makes the collaboration easy.
“This is an expansion,” she says. “We have an opportunity to partner with this multidisciplinary clinic that shares our values, aligns with the work we do, and is passionate about growing these ideas.”
In addition, until the building is sold, yoga classes will continue at the 192 River Valley Drive location.
This joining of forces with Town Health exemplifies the ethos Rising Tides wants to built its practice around.
“Therapy is traditionally associated with cognitive work, thinking work. But the deeper healing work we do in trauma therapy involves more body-based activities as well,” MacIsaac Brewsher says.
“At Town Health they have massage therapy, physiotherapy, osteopathy, chiropractic [services]. It fits in well with that whole model of ‘not one person has the ultimate answer for everybody’, but working in partnership we can take care of people.”
The clinic also offers a number of other therapies, such as cognitive behavioural therapy, narrative therapy, and structural dissociation, as well as counselling services along with supportive exercises like yoga.
Now with the collaboration with Town Health, even more physical and psychological services will be offered, with clinicians who work together and fully understand the needs of the patient.
“I think, traditionally, we’ve always separated mental health from physical health,” MacIsaac Brewsher says. “Being able to kind of be housed under one roof and work in collaboration is going to be I think, beneficial. For all of us actually, as clients and clinicians.”
Alex Graham is a Huddle reporter in Saint John. Send her your feedback and story ideas: [email protected].