Blueberry Therapy

Blueberry Therapy Blueberry Therapy is a multidisciplinary clinic providing exceptional therapy for men, women & child

Multidisciplinary Therapy Clinic specializing in pelvic health and pediatric therapies.

05/29/2026

Needing to p*e every 30 minutes on a 2-hour drive isn't just the iced coffee. ☕️

We see this all the time at the clinic. People assume frequent p*eing is just how their body works, especially after kids or heading into perimenopause.

A healthy bladder can usually go 2 to 4 hours between trips. If yours is tapping you on the shoulder every 30 minutes, that's useful information, not a personality trait.

This is often an overactive bladder, urinary urgency, or a pelvic floor that needs some attention.

Good news: it's one of the most treatable things we work on, at any age.

We dig into this kind of thing on The Hole Shebang podcast too.

Comment BOOK and we'll send you the link to book an assessment with one of our pelvic floor physios.

Save this for your next road trip, and tag the friend who plans every drive around bathroom stops. 🛣️🚗

05/27/2026

💬 Comment WATCH and I'll send you the link to buy the recordings before the clock runs out.

The recordings from The Pleasure Principle 2026 disappear on May 27, 2027. That is not a random date. It is the day we do it all again.

So here is the deal. You get one full year to watch every session from 2026, and the day the recordings close is the day the 2027 doors open. Learn it now, then come be in the room next time.

What is waiting on demand: a full day of cross-disciplinary teaching on women's s*xual health through perimenopause and menopause, pleasure framed as clinical practice, and apply-it-Monday evidence you can use with patients this week.

From the people who were actually there:
⭐ 91% rated it a perfect 5 out of 5
✅ 95% are very or extremely likely to apply what they learned
🔁 67 of the 77 who reviewed it already said yes to 2027 💗 Zero distractions

Get them before May 27, 2027. Then save the date, because that is when we are back.

📅 Recordings available to buy until May 27, 2027
🎟️ The Pleasure Principle 2027, save the date

Comment WATCH for instant access.

Most women don’t quit running because they stopped loving it. They quit because of the leaking, and because someone told...
05/22/2026

Most women don’t quit running because they stopped loving it. They quit because of the leaking, and because someone told them it was just part of being a woman who has had kids.

It is not.

1 in 3 women experience urinary leakage during exercise. Running is one of the highest-pressure things you can ask of your pelvic floor, because every stride is a small landing that your muscles have to absorb, hundreds of times per kilometre. When the timing, the pressure, or the ability to relax is off, the leak shows up.

Here is what most runners get wrong. They assume the answer is more Kegels. For a lot of the women we see at Blueberry, the pelvic floor is not weak. It is too tight, mistimed, or working against the breath. More Kegels can make that worse.

The fix is figuring out what your specific system is doing, and that takes an assessment, not a guess.

80% of women see meaningful improvement with pelvic floor physiotherapy.

You don’t have to retire your running shoes.

Comment RUN and we will send you our booking link for a running assessment.

Dilators are physiotherapy equipment.Most people first hear about them in a context that already feels heavy. After a ca...
05/20/2026

Dilators are physiotherapy equipment.

Most people first hear about them in a context that already feels heavy. After a cancer diagnosis. After surgery. After years of painful s*x. After menopause changes everything. The packaging hasn't helped. They look like s*x toys, sit on shelves next to them, and get treated like something shameful to own.

They aren't. Dilators belong in the same category as a resistance band or a foam roller. They're rehab tools.

Here's what they actually do. Dilators help the va**nal ca**l and surrounding pelvic floor muscles tolerate gradual stretch and pressure. Over time, the tissue becomes more flexible, the nervous system learns the sensation is safe, and what was painful or impossible becomes possible. It's graded exposure therapy. The same principle we use anywhere else in the body where tissue is tight, guarded, or scared.

Clinically, we use them for:
🫐 Vaginismus and chronic pelvic pain
🫐 Postmenopausal va**nal atrophy and dryness
🫐 Recovery after pelvic radiation for gynecological or a**l cancers
🫐 Post-surgical recovery (hysterectomy, prolapse repair, gender-affirming surgery)
🫐 Returning to comfortable pe*******on after a long pause, trauma, or birth injury

What dilators are not: a s*x aid, foreplay, or a tool for "stretching" the va**na to fit anyone. The goal isn't bigger. The goal is comfortable, safe, and pain-free.

One thing we say often in clinic: cancer survivors are handed dilators with almost no education, and people with vaginismus are sent home with a set and told to figure it out. That isn't care. Dilators work best as part of a treatment plan, with someone who understands the muscles, the tissue, and the nervous system underneath.

Comment BOOK to book with one of our practitioners, or SHOP for the link to our online store.

Have questions? Call us at 289-238-8383.

05/15/2026

Vi*****rs are pelvic health tools. Full stop.

About half of women have used one, and most aren't telling anyone. We're here to change that.

Regular vi****or use can:
🫐 Increase blood flow to ge***al tissue (especially helpful for postpartum recovery, perimenopause, and pelvic pain) 🫐 Improve arousal, natural lubrication, and or****ic capacity
🫐 Release pelvic floor tension better than almost anything else we can recommend

At Blueberry, we recommend them in clinic the same way we recommend any other tool. With intention, education, and zero shame.

Our shop is stocked with options we actually trust. External, internal, dual-action, wand-style, beginner-friendly. Something for every body and every stage.

Comment SHOP and we'll send you the link, or tap our bio to browse the full collection. 🫐

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A name change is not enough.After 11 years and 22,000 voices, polycystic o***y syndrome is officially polyendocrine meta...
05/13/2026

A name change is not enough.

After 11 years and 22,000 voices, polycystic o***y syndrome is officially polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome. PMOS. Published in The Lancet this week, the new name finally reflects what clinicians have known for decades. This is not a disease of the ovaries. It lives in the hormones, the metabolism, the mental health, and the daily quality of life of 1 in 8 women.

But naming a condition is not the same as fixing how we treat it. Up to 70% of people with PMOS are still undiagnosed. Endometriosis still takes 7 to 10 years to diagnose. Menopause care is still poorly resourced. Painful s*x is still treated as a relationship issue.

Women’s health has been overlooked for decades. We are not done expecting better.

At Blueberry Therapy, PMOS care lives in a team:
🫐 Naturopathic medicine: hormones, insulin, nutrition that targets the root.
🫐 Counselling: the mental health piece PMOS quietly carries.
🫐 Osteopathy: visceral, fascial, and nervous system support.
🫐 Pelvic floor physiotherapy: painful s*x, pelvic pain, bladder symptoms.

The condition lives in multiple body systems. So does the care.

💬 Comment PMOS below and I’ll send you the Lancet article and the PCOS Awareness Association resources so you can keep going.

Save this. Share it with someone who’s been searching for clearer answers. Tag a friend who’s been told it was all in her head.

Don’t let the change stop at the name.

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Acupuncture isn't just for back pain. Dr. Kirsten Almon has been practicing acupuncture for 24 years, and she uses it fo...
05/12/2026

Acupuncture isn't just for back pain. Dr. Kirsten Almon has been practicing acupuncture for 24 years, and she uses it for the things most people don't realize it can help with.

Her approach is patient-first. She builds every treatment plan around the person in front of her, not a checklist of symptoms.

What acupuncture can support:
🫐 Hormone regulation for fertility and perimenopause
🫐 Parasympathetic activation for sleep, digestion, and elimination
🫐 Active labour and postdates pregnancies
🫐 Lactation, including milk production and let-down

Whether you're trying to conceive, working through perimenopause, days past your due date, or fighting for milk supply in those early postpartum weeks, there is a treatment plan for that.

Want to chat first? Dr. Almon offers a free 15-minute discovery call so you can ask questions before booking a full session.

Comment BOOK and we'll DM you the booking link.
you can also call us at 289-238-8383, email blueberrytherapy@gmail.com, or book online through the link in our bio 💙

The room emptied. The conversation didn't.220 people walked out of McMaster Innovation Park today carrying something the...
05/09/2026

The room emptied. The conversation didn't.

220 people walked out of McMaster Innovation Park today carrying something they didn't walk in with. Language, evidence, permission, and proof that this work matters.

What landed in the afternoon:
Dr. Sheila Wijayasinghe made the case for s*xual health belonging inside primary care, and reminded us that the question itself can be the intervention. You don't need every answer to make a patient feel seen.

Emily Arthur RD walked us through the gut-pleasure connection. The enteric nervous system is not a side topic in s*xual health. It is part of the system.

Taylor McConnachie joined us virtually to talk about the cancer experience and the body. Reconnection requires safety, choice, and permission. Three words every clinician in the room wrote down.

Together with this morning's speakers, the day held one thesis. Pleasure is clinical. Sexual health is health. And the conversation belongs in our clinics, our charting, and our continuing education.

Thank you to every speaker who walked in with their full expertise.

Thank you to IRIS, our Platinum sponsor, and to our Gold sponsors who funded this conversation: Blueberry Therapy, Cocoa Beau Chocolate, Dott, Haley Bowler-Cooke, Heather Hendrie, Loew & Co, Marie Ssemanda, Modo Yoga Hamilton, SEX-ED+, Utiva, Wellex, Women's Health Pathway, and YWCA Hamilton.

Thank you to my Blueberry Therapy team. You held the clinic, the logistics, and me. I see all of it.

Thank you to every clinician, educator, and patient who took a seat. You made this real.

Pleasure Principle is not a one-day event. It's the conversation we keep having on The Hole Shebang podcast, in the clinic, and right here on this feed.

See you in 2027.

Halfway through the day we built for the people doing this work. Cancer survivorship and s*xual health. The conversation...
05/08/2026

Halfway through the day we built for the people doing this work.

Cancer survivorship and s*xual health. The conversation most cancer care teams never have with their patients.

220 sold-out seats at McMaster Innovation Park. Clinicians, educators, and patients in the room together.

Dr. Jess O'Reilly opened with the thesis the morning stood on. Pleasure is not optional. Pleasure is clinical.

Brooke Gordan shared what it took to assemble her own cancer treatment team when the system did not hand her one.

Dr. Alexandra Hill reframed the work. Sexual health after cancer is not about fixing the pelvic floor. It is about restoring safety, sensation, capacity, and agency across the whole body so pleasure becomes possible again.

Dr. Michelle Jacobson stopped the room with the stat we all need to know. 11% of women undergoing cancer treatment stop their treatment because of va**nal symptoms.

Dr. Ashley Chauvin closed the morning by shifting how we prescribe. Exercise is treatment, not an optional lifestyle change.

The break in the atrium was its own conference. Patients, educators, and clinicians at the same tables asking the same questions.

Afternoon recap drops tonight. Save this post for part two.

It's Mental Health Week. Here's something we say in our clinic almost every day: mental health doesn't live in a separat...
05/06/2026

It's Mental Health Week.

Here's something we say in our clinic almost every day: mental health doesn't live in a separate part of your body from everything else.

Postpartum anxiety and pelvic floor recovery happen at the same time. Perimenopause mood changes arrive alongside the hot flashes, brain fog, and sleep disruption. Chronic pelvic pain carries grief for the body you thought you'd have. The family navigating a child's school refusal is also the family trying to hold down jobs and eat dinner together.

We built Blueberry around that reality.

Our mental health team works alongside our physiotherapists, naturopath, osteopaths, massage therapists, lactation consultant, and occupational therapist. You get psychological support as part of your care, not as a separate appointment at another place with a provider who has no context for the rest of your team.

Three things change when mental health lives in the same clinic:
🫐 Your practitioners talk to each other, with your consent 🫐 You don't repeat your full history every time
🫐 The handoff is a warm one

Meet the four therapists on the team:

Lisa Giles, RP. Perinatal, birth trauma, fertility loss, couples. Isabella Piatek, MSW, RSW. Perimenopause, menopause, anxiety, grief, ADHD support. Sessions in English and Polish.
Liana Cross-Muller, RP Qualifying. Art therapy, trauma, s*xual assault recovery, nervous system work.
Melissa Persadie, MSW, RSW. Children 5+, family grief, chronic pelvic pain.

Plus our new Walk and Talk Therapy. Same clinical work, outdoors, side by side. Movement helps the thinking.

You don't have to be in crisis. You don't need a diagnosis. You don't have to have the words ready. If something feels off, that's reason enough to book.

💬 Comment Book and we'll send you the link to book.

You can also read the full Meet the Mental Health Team blog on our website through link in bio. 💙

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14 Cross Street
Dundas, ON
L9H2R4

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 8pm
Tuesday 9am - 8pm
Wednesday 9am - 8pm
Thursday 9am - 8pm
Friday 9am - 8pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm

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+12892388383

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