Practitioners
Moss is a collective of independent business owners teaming together to bring comprehensive care to postpartum families.
Chiropractor
Dr. Stephanie Moody
Stephanie is a doctor of chiropractic with a focus in pre/postnatal, women’s health and pediatric wellness. She has dedicated her career to supporting women and their families throughout pregnancy, postpartum and all stages of motherhood.
During her first-year practicing at a sports chiropractic clinic, as the only female chiropractor at the clinic many of the patients who were pregnant and all the babies and kids were sent her way. This quickly became her passion. She then went on to become a member of the ICPA with training and certification in the Webster Technique, Active Release Techniques, Graston Technique, Kinesiotape, functional movement, Hypopressives Technique and is a certified BirthFit Professional which she combines with gentle chiropractic techniques to help women meet their health and movement goals.
After becoming a Mother, herself, she saw a gap in the care and support provided to women after baby arrives. She strives to help support women throughout all stages of motherhood and set a strong foundation of health for themselves and their families.
Acupuncturist TCMD
Dr. Christa Marx
Christa is an Acupuncturist and Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner who specializes infertility, pregnancy and postpartum. She enjoys helping patients on their fertility journey and loves helping them have a positive pregnancy and birth. She has always felt that there was a missing piece with care for women after childbirth and was excited to see their was a space created just for this.
Christa uses acupuncture, cupping, moxabustion and herbal medicine to help balance and build woman’s health in all stages of motherhood. She enjoys treating all members of the family as well, from the small to the tall! Christa also has training in Facial Rejuvenation which is a relaxing treatment that helps with fine lines and wrinkles, building collagen, dark circles under the eyes and more. It’s a great way to unwind when you feel tired and need a pick me up.
Acupuncturist
Dr. Erin Tremblay
Erin is a Doctor of Acupuncture with a focus on joyful embodied health practices.
This means a non-judgmental space to talk (or not discuss!!) anything you want, while she focuses on your own unique desires for your health. It means treatment options like herbs, cupping, and nutrition are added in a way that is centered around empowerment and nourishment and never restriction or punishment.
She deeply values anti-oppressive practice and is continually committed to this goal. Her practice revolves around celebrating your wins, supporting big life transitions, and a focus on helping people feel better as quickly as possible.
Erin is also offering Doula services while she is in a loving apprenticeship with Treeka Drake of The ForRest. For more information on birth doula support with Erin, please visit: http://www.onelovefloat.com/wildwoman
Naturopathic Doctor
Dr. Carrie Mitchell
Dr. Carrie helps moms thrive. She has a special focus on perinatal health and natural wellness. She adores treating women in all aspects of their journey - from preconception/fertility, prenatal to postpartum and beyond. Striving to help prevent and treat postpartum depletion, postpartum mood disorders, hormonal imbalance and more.
You can find Dr. Carrie at MOSS postpartum, offering a signature Postpartum Project, including IV nutrient therapy. She wants you to feel great postpartum, and hope to encourage health and community with their IV nutrient program.
Naturopathic Doctor
Dr. Toni Reid
Dr. Toni is passionate about guiding and supporting people of all ages to empower themselves with simple tools to achieve optimal health and prevent disease. She knows from personal experience that our bodies speak to us in a number of different ways, especially with the joys and challenges of parenthood. Before becoming a mom, her experiences of struggling with digestive issues, migraines and period problems while growing up led her to question the approach of conventional medicine. She gained relief from a more natural, non-pharmaceutical approach to health, including nutrition, botanical medicine, acupuncture, homeopathy and IV nutrient therapy.
She loves supporting women who are pregnant or planning their families with pre-conception, prenatal and postnatal care, as well as labour support for women and their partners.
She has furthered her naturopathic medical education by receiving certification in Environmental Medicine, completing advanced training in personalized medicine (including nutrition and genetic analysis), and becoming a DONA trained birth doula and HypnoBirthing® Childbirth Educator.
Registered Psychologist
Jenny Harrison
Jenny has been working in mental health since 2012. She began her career working in addictions and, after the birth of her first child, developed an ever-growing interest in perinatal mental health. Today, Jenny feels very fortunate to be able to support families navigating the transition to parenthood. Jenny is a Registered Provisional Psychologist and uses techniques from Mindfulness Therapy, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT), and group therapy to support families through the ups and downs of parenthood.
In addition to being challenging individually, the transition to parenthood can strain relationships. Jenny is passionate about working with couples to support them in maintaining relationship satisfaction. Jenny has completed training in Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy and Gottman Method Couples Therapy.
When Jenny is not working, she spends as much time as she can with her family, and is grateful for the tools she is developing professionally to support her in her own parenthood journey.
Pelvic Health Physical Therapists
Kirstyn Cahoon Richards
Kirstyn is a Pelvic Health Physical Therapist who helps women to prepare for labour/delivery and recover after childbirth.
Before starting as a Pelvic Health Therapist, Kirstyn worked in Orthopedics, Pediatrics, Vestibular and Chronic Pain after receiving her Masters of Physiotherapy from the University of Alberta.
Kirstyn now focuses on helping women thrive during their pregnancy, prepping them for labour/delivery and aiding in their rehabilitation postpartum. Pelvic Health Therapists treat urinary/fecal incontinence, pelvic organ prolapse, diastasis recti (abdominal separation), constipation, sexual dysfunction and lumbopelvic pain. Treatment is customized for each patient and typically integrates pelvic floor/core/glute muscle re-training, helpful advice on bowel and bladder habits, nutrition and hands-on techniques from the therapist.
Physiotherapy is internationally recognized as the first choice of treatment for incontinence and prolapse. Kirstyn uses evidence based therapy techniques and a team based approach to recovery. If you want to restore your core/pelvic floor and live your life to your fullest, book to see Kirstyn at MOSS!
Devin Grant
Devin is a Pelvic Health Physical Therapist who supports women in understanding and optimizing their pelvic floor health to meet their pre-natal and post-partum needs. She believes in a collaborative and client-centered approach in helping women prepare for labour and delivery as well as recover and return to activity, sport, and function following childbirth.
After receiving her Master of Science in Physical Therapy from the University of Alberta, Devin worked in an orthopedic setting and quickly discovered her passion for Women’s Health. She has completed specialized training in Pelvic Health Solutions Levels 1, 2, and 3, Pregnancy and Pelvic Girdle Pain, Functional Pelvic Floor Muscle Re-education and Behavioural Techniques, and Functional Dry Needling.
Devin strives to help women feel empowered to take an active role in working towards their rehabilitation goals by providing patient education, manual techniques, and a progressive home exercise program to help re-educate optimal core and pelvic floor muscle activation. Pelvic Health Physical Therapy is helpful in treating; urinary/fecal incontinence, urinary urgency/frequency, constipation, prolapse, sexual dysfunction/pain with intercourse, and lumbopelvic pain.
When she is not working, Devin loves to stay active participating in spin, bootcamps, and barre classes. She is eager to help women to feel their best and to return to the activities that they love comfortably and sustainably.
Renae Hunter
Renae is a physiotherapist with specialized training in pelvic health. Her passion lies in supporting pregnant people and their families from preconception, through pregnancy and all stages of postpartum.
After Renae completed her Master of Physical Therapy in 2009, she worked as an orthopaedic physiotherapist for several years before discovering her passion for pelvic health following the birth of her first child in 2013. She has since completed specialized training in the field of pelvic health and continues to seek new learning opportunities in this area of practice. She is certified in ROST Therapy for the treatment of pregnancy-related pelvic girdle pain. In addition, she has completed training in acupuncture through the Acupuncture Foundation of Canada Institute and has completed her Level 2 certification in Manual Therapy through the Canadian Physiotherapy Association Orthopaedic Division.
As a pelvic health physiotherapist, Renae treats conditions including urinary/fecal incontinence, dyspareunia (pain with intercourse), dysmenorrhea (pain with menstruation), pelvic organ prolapse, diastasis recti (abdominal separation), constipation, sexual dysfunction and lumbopelvic pain.
Outside of the clinic, Renae is a wife and busy mom to 3 wonderful daughters and enjoys spending time with her family and traveling.
Registered Massage Therapists
Patricia Sparrow
Patricia is a Registered Massage Therapist who loves to help her clients feel their best. After graduating from the West Coast College of Massage Therapy in 2014, Patricia worked for 4 years building a successful practice as a RMT, while researching and developing innovative techniques to help her patients. After a successful career helping high level athletes and treating chronic pain, Patricia is excited to focus more on another of her great passions; Women’s health.
Patricia now utilizes her massage and fascial therapy techniques to help prenatal and postpartum patients to reduce pain, resolve dysfunction, and restore harmony within the body.
Kimmy Berthelette
Kimmy has been a registered massage therapist for over 16 years and has owned and operated a mobile massage business for over 11 years. This gave her a wide range of experiences working with many kinds of people. Being a proud Manitoba Métis, she brings in teachings and practices into her massage treatments.
Areas of expertise include fertility, prenatal, postpartum, sports, deep tissue, trigger point therapy, Indian head massage, baby and children’s massage, myofascial release and dynamic cupping. She also teachs caregivers baby massage, intuitive touch, and Reiki and is a current student of 5 Elements training. Kimmy is passionate, loyal, has genuine connection and integrity in helping those in need. All are welcome always.
Lauren Standing
Lauren graduated from Makami’s 3000 hour massage therapy program in August 2019 and felt a natural calling to prenatal and postpartum massage right out of school.
Lauren believes in client empowerment and providing the tools for aftercare outside of the treatment room. Of equal importance is cultivating a supportive and inclusive environment for all clients. Lauren practices from a heart-centered place and believes a personal touch to treatment can turn a great treatment into an amazing one!
Lauren can provide fertility, prenatal, postpartum, deep tissue and relaxation massages, any of which can be combined with cupping. Currently she is expanding her knowledge while she attends school to learn acupuncture and traditional Chinese medicine.
Birth and Postpartum Doulas
Community Partners
The Moss Family provides in-house workshops, training and classes to promote wellness for the mother and family. Click below to see all upcoming events or keep scrolling to meet our members.
Certified Mindfulness Coach
Aditi Loveridge
Aditi Loveridge is a Certified Mindfulness Coach who supports mothers in their journeys after pregnancy or infant loss. Her work includes supporting mothers who have recently experienced loss, are trying to conceive after loss of any kind (pregnancy/infant loss, failed IVF, missed adoption), pregnant again after loss and those still struggling after the birth of their baby. Aditi helps mothers who have experienced loss to reconnect with trust so that they can step beyond anxiety and fear.
Before working as a Certified Mindfulness Coach, Aditi had a successful career as a Social Worker in women's sexual health. Aditi now draws on her Social Work, Mindfulness and Coaching skills to help mothers connect with their present moment experiences so that they can engage wholeheartedly in their lives.
Aditi also uses a mindfulness based practice to support mothers outside the loss community who struggle with anxiety.
Movement Instructor & Moss Community Connector
Beth McIvor
Beth discovered yoga in her early twenties and for the past 15 years has continuously been drawn back to movement in all forms. Beth has been teaching yoga in Calgary for 9 years and did her pre and post-natal training with the wonderful, Amy Bidrman in 2012. She is a movement student for life and is currently studying and applying sustainable and functional movement in her life and teachings as well as working through her group training and older adult fitness certifications through the AFLCA. She is passionate about working with women and believes that movement and the opportunity for accessibility, education and empowerment through movement is important and valuable.
Beth is in constant awe of the female body; it's strength, resilience, differences, similarities, patterns and habits that make every body unique. She is equally as interested in the mind, the power of the mind and mental health as it pertains to mother’s in all stages of life and motherhood.
Beth loves to laugh usually at inappropriate times, to dance, and loves to explore movement together with others, to ask questions, have fun and to teach from a place of inquiry. She is a mama to two beautiful boys and is inspired and challenged by them every single day!
To learn more about Beth's virtual private practice, check out her website at www.artfulloflife.ca
Postpartum Doula Trainer
AJ Hadfield
AJ Hadfield is a DONA-certified postpartum and birth doula and a postpartum doula trainer who helps women and their families as they navigate the physical and emotional transition to parenthood.
Before becoming a doula, AJ worked for many years in banking, mostly at the branch level, assisting customers with their daily banking needs. After transitioning to doula work in 2005, AJ worked exclusively with postpartum families for 6 years, before training and certifying as a birth doula. Since 2015, AJ has been a DONA-approved postpartum doula trainer, and facilitates trainings of new postpartum doulas across Western Canada.
To learn more about AJ's virtual private practice, check out her website at www.ajdoula.ca
Office Team
Owner/Founder
Paige Barlow
Hello my name is Paige. This journey has been amazing and messy as hell. We are getting there and by spring this year we will be opening the first postpartum house in Calgary, Alberta.
I truly do believe the most important time in all the trimesters is the 4th Trimester. Over the last 5 years I have not only watched the birth of over 50 babies but the birth of parents being born. Supporting these families after the birth was where I found my calling. The births of our 2 children as well a the loss of our third baby really solidified the conception of the MOSS Postpartum house.
The need to nurture the parent is not something society in general thinks of in the same capacity as birth and there lies the disconnect. We are here to change that. So come as you are you are welcome here!
Director of People and Operations
Erin Bogle
Erin is first and foremost a person who loves people, she is fascinated by the fact that everyone has a different story to tell. And even though our stories are different, she has found that our differences actually are what bring us together. She comes from a people and culture background with over 10 years of experience in a variety of HR roles.
The opportunity to work at Moss has come on the heels of becoming a mama in December 2018. Who even knew you could love that hard?! I look forward to greeting you with great big open arms.
Client Care Coordinator
Ashley Snell
Ashley is apart of our reception team at Moss. Ashley’s background is in hospitality with over 15 years experience, more specifically in baking. She is a SAIT graduate from the baking & pastry arts program. Ashley enjoys people & community and really cares about the overall well being of those she meets as well as being sensitive to new parents and supporting their journey through this wild rollercoaster ride of parenthood. I have two young boys of my own, who keep me on my toes and fill me up with a love I don’t know where to begin to explain. When you don’t see Ashley greeting you at Moss you will most likely find her baking and creating sugar paste flowers & decorations for her side hustle fine & dandy sugar artistry, crafting with/for her boys, or getting outdoors with the family. I love the mountains and enjoy the winter months snowboarding and learning to ski. I feel incredibly fortunate to have found a place at Moss with opportunity be the first greeting for your care and support here, I look forward to saying “hello!”