We Aim to Listen, Heal & Empower.
As a group of dynamic and skilled healthcare practitioners, our focus is to provide you with the highest quality of care. Urban Wellness’s multi-disciplinary environment allows you to work with one practitioner or multiple, all under the same roof, with your total wellness in mind.
We are committed to intersectional and 2SLGBTQIA sensitive care with an anti-oppression and client-centered emphasis.
Our approach is holistic: focusing on each individual and their specific needs
Located on the 3rd floor of a wheelchair accessible building, nestled in the heart of Little Italy in downtown Toronto, Urban Wellness offers a compassionate oasis of care and community.
Our mission is to help you achieve your optimal level of health, while feeling supported and empowered in the process.
MANAGING
Pain & Stress Management
We work together to achieve optimum results, integrating a variety of treatment options while offering the relief you deserve.
SUPPORT
Fertility & Pregnancy
Fertility issues can be stressful and emotionally draining. For many, they can feel hopelessness and despair. By providing empowering solutions, we aim to achieve tangible results.
CARE
Holistic Beauty & Wellness
Feeling your best starts from the inside out. Our treatments and resources ease stress, improve digestion and circulation to help that inner glow show.
Reproductive Health
Reproductive Health is an area in which Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) excels.
Its treatments are gentle, with virtually no side effects. Being relatively inexpensive, TCM provides solutions for a wide variety of gynecological issues. It may be used on its own or in conjunction with Western medicine safely and effectively.
LATEST
Journal Entries
From PCOS to PMOS: What does it all mean?
The landmark decision to rename Polycystic Ovarian Syndrom (PCOS) to Polyendocrine Metabolic Syndrome (PMOS) reflects a push to better represent the realities of the condition. Broadening the name from PCOS – a name that emphasizes the involvement and importance of ovarian cysts in the condition, to PMOS, which underscores the whole-body reality of the syndrome, aims to both better represent the condition to the public, but also emphasize the multi-system implications within a clinical context – that is, for patients and care providers. The shift in name from polycystic ovarian syndrome (PCOS) to polyendocrine metabolic syndrome (PMOS) is a huge change, and one that certainly better represents the realities of the condition that affects over 170 million people worldwide. We’re hopeful that this change in language will help to support an improvement in clinical care and support offered globally as well.
PART ONE: First Trimester “Morning Sickness”
Pregnancy can be a wonderful and extremely challenging time, whether it’s your first or fourth baby. Working as a Registered Acupuncturist supporting people in pregnancy for over 7 years, I’ve seen firsthand that many symptoms can be greatly diminished or even eliminated with regular acupuncture treatments and a few simple lifestyle adjustments. When administered by a Registered Acupuncturist, acupuncture has been found to be both safe and effective in treating many pregnancy-related issues. In the first of a series of blog posts, I will be discussing “Morning Sickness”, more accurately described as nausea and/or vomiting in pregnancy, to offer a better understanding of what it is, how our relationship to eating/food changes in pregnancy and what can be done to improve this sometimes very stressful aspect of First Trimester.
5 Chinese Medicine Tips for a Smooth Transition Into Summer
As the days grow longer and the weather warms, many of us start to notice shifts in our energy, digestion, sleep, and mood. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, seasonal transitions are seen as powerful times to support the body before imbalance develops. In this blog post, Registered Acupuncturist Dee Dorrance shares five gentle TCM-inspired ways to help your body transition smoothly into summer.
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Using Food as Medicine: Applying the Wisdom of Traditional Chinese Medicine to Heal.