Lakeside Hearing

Lakeside Hearing Visit us at one of our two locations:

KELOWNA: #202 - 3295 Lakeshore Road, Kelowna, BC

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Lakeside Hearing, Balance and Tinnitus is a team of Audiologists providing diagnostic assessment and treatment for in all areas of Audiology. The clinic is independently owned and operated by Nichole Sorensen, Doctor of Audiology.

May is Speech and Hearing Month, and this year we’re part of something we’re proud to support.Lakeside Hearing has been ...
05/14/2026

May is Speech and Hearing Month, and this year we’re part of something we’re proud to support.

Lakeside Hearing has been serving the Okanagan for over a decade, with Dr. Nichole Sorensen bringing more than 25 years of audiological care to the region.

One thing she and Dr. Claire Beldi have seen consistently is how long many people wait before seeking hearing care. Years of compensating. Years of explaining things away as stress, fatigue, busy restaurants, overwhelm, or people mumbling.

Nichole and Claire serve as founding clinical advisors for HearingEmpowered.ca - a platform connecting Canadians with independent audiology clinics focused on thoughtful, long-term hearing care and individualized support.

This month, Hearing Empowered™ and its editorial publication Empowerful, a published a feature exploring why so many people wait 7 to 10 years before seeking hearing care, and how hearing-related participation friction can quietly reshape everyday life through listening effort, social fatigue, adaptation, and withdrawal.

Because for many people, hearing loss does not arrive as obvious volume loss at first. It arrives as extra effort, exhaustion, difficulty following conversations, or the feeling that social situations suddenly take more energy than they used to.

And sometimes, after years of explaining those changes away, people slowly begin to realize that maybe part of the picture was their hearing all along.

If someone in your life has been wondering whether hearing might be part of the picture, it’s worth a read.

Read the story: empowerful.ca/stigma

Thank you so much for nominating us for Best of Kelowna 2026! 🌟🦻🏻 Voting is open until May 12 at 3PM and while you're th...
05/02/2026

Thank you so much for nominating us for Best of Kelowna 2026! 🌟🦻🏻 Voting is open until May 12 at 3PM and while you're there, show some love to all your favourite locally owned businesses!

Here's how to vote for us:

1️⃣ Google "Best of Kelowna 2026"

2️⃣ Click the green "Vote for Your Favourites" button

3️⃣ Scroll down to "Health & Wellness" and find "Audiology & Hearing Clinic"

4️⃣ Select Lakeside Hearing and click vote

5️⃣ Scroll all the way to the bottom and click "Continue" to submit your votes. You haven't voted until you do this last step!

Thank you for supporting your locally owned, independent audiology clinic! We are immensely grateful for our community’s support! 🙏💙

Thank you so much for nominating us for Best of Kelowna 2026! 🌟🦻🏻 Voting is open until May 12 at 3PM and while you're th...
05/02/2026

Thank you so much for nominating us for Best of Kelowna 2026! 🌟🦻🏻 Voting is open until May 12 at 3PM and while you're there, show some love to all your favourite locally owned businesses!

Here's how to vote for us:

1️⃣ Google "Best of Kelowna 2026" (or just head to: bestof.kelownanow.com)

2️⃣ Click the green "Vote for Your Favourites" button

3️⃣ Scroll down to "Health & Wellness" and find "Audiology & Hearing Clinic"

4️⃣ Select Lakeside Hearing and click vote

5️⃣ Scroll all the way to the bottom and click "Continue" to submit your votes. You haven't voted until you do this last step!

Thank you for supporting your locally owned, independent audiology clinic! We are immensely grateful for our community’s support! 🙏💙

Great teams are built outside the office too, right? 🎳Put us in a bowling alley and suddenly it’s less about schedules a...
04/20/2026

Great teams are built outside the office too, right? 🎳

Put us in a bowling alley and suddenly it’s less about schedules and roles and more about laughing at the gutter balls, cheering the wins, and just being together.

And that connection doesn’t stay at the lanes. It comes back with us. Into how we support each other, how we listen, and how we show up for every patient who walks through our doors.

What a great team bonding night at McCurdy Bowling Centre!

Kelowna, where do you take your team to connect?

April 4th is Auditory Processing Disorder Awareness Day, and we want to talk about something that trips a lot of parents...
04/04/2026

April 4th is Auditory Processing Disorder Awareness Day, and we want to talk about something that trips a lot of parents up.

Your child passed their hearing test. So why do they keep missing instructions? Why do noisy rooms wipe them out? Why does reading feel so hard?

Their ears are doing exactly what ears are supposed to do. The tricky part is what happens after, in how the brain makes sense of sound. That's auditory processing, and when it's not working well, it doesn't show up on a standard hearing test.

Children with APD often struggle to follow directions (especially in noise), get easily distracted, zone out in class, have trouble with reading and spelling, and get frustrated in ways that look like behaviour problems or attention issues. They hear just fine. Listening is where it falls apart.

The good news: an APD assessment with one of our audiologists can figure out exactly what's going on. And there are real, practical ways to help, from at-home training programs to in-clinic therapy to a small remote microphone that brings the teacher's voice directly into your child's ear in the classroom.

If this sounds like your child, it's worth looking into.

Kelowna: (236) 420-0294
Lake Country: (250) 766-0294

📧 info@lakesidehearing.com
💻 Learn more and book here: https://lakesidehearing.com/auditory-processing-evaluation-and-therapy/

Please note that our clinics will be closed for Good Friday (April 3, 2026) and will reopen on Monday, April 6.Wishing y...
04/01/2026

Please note that our clinics will be closed for Good Friday (April 3, 2026) and will reopen on Monday, April 6.

Wishing you and your loved ones a happy Easter! 🐰

You don't need a headache to have a migraine.Vestibular migraines can show up as vertigo, dizziness, motion sensitivity,...
03/13/2026

You don't need a headache to have a migraine.

Vestibular migraines can show up as vertigo, dizziness, motion sensitivity, ear pressure, or just that feeling that the ground isn't quite where it should be. Sometimes for minutes. Sometimes for days. Often with no head pain at all.

It's one of the most common causes of dizziness and one of the most frequently missed, partly because the symptoms look like so many other things.

Audio-vestibular testing is one of the key tools for figuring out what's actually going on. If you've been dizzy, or experiencing strange visual disturbances, and nobody has a good answer yet, it might be worth looking at this.

We can help. 🔗 lakesidehearing.com/vestibular-migraine

Voting is open for Best of the Okanagan, and Lakeside Hearing is listed in the “Hearing Aid Store” category this year.Th...
03/10/2026

Voting is open for Best of the Okanagan, and Lakeside Hearing is listed in the “Hearing Aid Store” category this year.

That category name doesn’t really reflect the kind of care we provide. Lakeside Hearing is a full audiology clinic with two Doctors of Audiology and three Audiologists on our team. Our work includes comprehensive diagnostic hearing assessments, tinnitus care, and individualised treatment planning, along with the careful fitting and long term support that hearing technology requires.

A big part of what we focus on is how people process sound and how listening interacts with the nervous system. Hearing care is not only about making sound louder. It’s about clarity, listening effort, and helping people stay engaged in conversations and environments that matter in their daily lives.

If our team has helped you better understand your hearing, supported you through the process of choosing hearing technology, we’d be grateful if you took a moment to vote for us.

✨Bonus: The Capital News is also running a voter giveaway. When you cast a vote, you’ll be entered to win a Classic Wine Tour for 6 at your choice of West Kelowna, East Kelowna, or Lake Country wineries. You can vote once to enter, and go back daily for additional chances to win. 🍷

Because we can't share links to media websites in Canada, you can find a link to the contest on our website: https://lakesidehearing.com/vote-for-us/

Thank you for supporting local, independent hearing care! 💙

Voting is open for Best of the Okanagan, and Lakeside Hearing is listed in the “Hearing Aid Store” category this year.Th...
03/10/2026

Voting is open for Best of the Okanagan, and Lakeside Hearing is listed in the “Hearing Aid Store” category this year.

That category name doesn’t really reflect the kind of care we provide. Lakeside Hearing is a full audiology clinic with two Doctors of Audiology and three Audiologists on our team. Our work includes comprehensive diagnostic hearing assessments, tinnitus care, and individualized treatment planning, along with the careful fitting and long term support that hearing technology requires.

A big part of what we focus on is how people process sound and how listening interacts with the nervous system. Hearing care is not only about making sound louder. It’s about clarity, listening effort, and helping people stay engaged in conversations and environments that matter in their daily lives.

If our team has helped you better understand your hearing, supported you through the process of choosing hearing technology, we’d be grateful if you took a moment to vote for us.

You can vote for us here:
https://kelownacapnews.com/contests/best-of-the-okanagan/ #/gallery?group=534816

Bonus: The Capital News is also running a voter giveaway. When you cast a vote, you’ll be entered to win a Classic Wine Tour for 6 at your choice of West Kelowna, East Kelowna, or Lake Country wineries. You can vote once to enter, and go back daily for additional chances to win.

Thank you for supporting local, independent hearing care!

Voting is open for Best of the Okanagan, and Lakeside Hearing is listed in the “Hearing Aid Store” category this year.Th...
03/10/2026

Voting is open for Best of the Okanagan, and Lakeside Hearing is listed in the “Hearing Aid Store” category this year.

That category name doesn’t really reflect the kind of care we provide. Lakeside Hearing is a full audiology clinic with two Doctors of Audiology and three Audiologists on our team. Our work includes comprehensive diagnostic hearing assessments, tinnitus care, and individualized treatment planning, along with the careful fitting and long term support that hearing technology requires.

A big part of what we focus on is how people process sound and how listening interacts with the nervous system. Hearing care is not only about making sound louder. It’s about clarity, listening effort, and helping people stay engaged in conversations and environments that matter in their daily lives.

If our team has helped you better understand your hearing, supported you through the process of choosing hearing technology, we’d be grateful if you took a moment to vote for us.

You can vote for us here:
https://kelownacapnews.com/contests/best-of-the-okanagan/ #/gallery?group=534816

✨Bonus: The Capital News is also running a voter giveaway. When you cast a vote, you’ll be entered to win a Classic Wine Tour for 6 at your choice of West Kelowna, East Kelowna, or Lake Country wineries. You can vote once to enter, and go back daily for additional chances to win. 🍷

Thank you for supporting local, independent hearing care!

Lakeside Hearing will be closed on Tuesday in observance of Remembrance Day. We will be open the rest of the week, inclu...
11/07/2025

Lakeside Hearing will be closed on Tuesday in observance of Remembrance Day. We will be open the rest of the week, including Monday, during our regular business hours.

We pause to remember and thank all who have served, and those who continue to serve, for their courage and sacrifice.

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Kelowna, BC
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Monday 9am - 4:30pm
Tuesday 9am - 4:30pm
Wednesday 9am - 4:30pm
Thursday 9am - 4:30pm
Friday 9am - 4:30pm

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