Our Registered Massage Therapists
Getachew Addgeh, Registered Massage Therapist
Getachew graduated in 2017 from the Wellington College of Remedial Massage Therapies. He received the Don Bennett award of Excellence upon graduation for his dedication to his studies. Getachew likes the therapeutic side of massage and pursued a career in massage therapy to help and meet new people. Getachew has taken extra courses in Indian Head massage, Rib Mobilization and Lymphatic Drainage.
Getachew grew up in Ethiopia and began loosing his vision due to illness when he was 6, and became fully visually impaired in 2009. He began his journey into Massage Therapy after moving to Canada. His loss of sight has enhanced his massage abilities with heightened sense of touch.
Aaron Meiklejohn, Registered Massage Therapist
Aaron attended Robertson College, graduated in 2016, and belongs to the RMTSMB Association. He became an RMT because he has a strong interest in health and the human body and has a strong desire to help people. Aaron previously worked in a spa and a sports clinic setting. However, he prefers to do a deep tissue style of treatment, with a clinical treatment approach. When he isn’t assisting his clients in pain and stress management, he likes to unwind with a round of golf, snowboarding, or his absolute favorite, hockey. Aaron loves spending time with his daughter Penny, and his Husky; Luna when ever he has time to spare!
Nadia Dupre, Registered Massage Therapist
Nadia graduated from Wellington College in 2007 and is a member of the MTAM Association. She became an RMT as she has a passion for helping others relieve stress using relaxation techniques. She has been massaging since she was a child, finding her passion early tending to family, friends, and coworkers. She has taken the Intro to Pregnancy Pelvis, and Hot Stone courses. She specializes in relaxation, deep tissue hot stone and pregnancy massages. Her style of treatment would be described as deep tissue flushing (relaxing with slow deeper pressure). When Nadia is not treating her clients with a pregnancy, hot stone, relaxing, or deep tissue massage; you can find her in a great book, watching tv or a movie, attending a concert, travelling, or visiting with family and friends. Nadia looks forward to meeting and treating you at Massage Addict St. Vital!
Cynthia Andrushko, Registered Massage Therapist
Cynthia graduated from Robertson College in 2020 ; and belongs to the MTAM Association. Cynthia became an RMT because she wanted to help people live a full, pain free life. She is also trained in Cupping and took personal training courses. Clients would describe her treatment as therapeutic, and she specializes in Deep Tissue Therapeutic massage. When Cynthia is not massaging or Personal Training, she loves to workout and read. Cynthia looks forward to treating you at Massage Addict St Vital soon!
Yang Wei (Sherry), Registered Massage Therapist
Yang Wei (Sherry) graduated from Hua Xai Acupuncture Massage Herb College in Winnipeg June 30, 2021. She worked as an RMT in China previously and has thousands of treatments experience prior to relocating to Manitoba. Sherry has always had a passion for Wellness, Massage and Acupuncture; and has a true passion for continuing her education.
Sherry is trained in Swedish massage, Myofascial Therapy, Joint Mobility, Muscle Energy Release Techniques, and Temporomandibular joint (TMJ)Treatments.
She is also trained in Cupping, Massage Therapy with Reflexology, Hot Stone and Indie Head massage modality treatments.
Sherry specializes in Chinese Acupuncture point massage playing a major role in coping with all kinds of chronic tension headaches especially in the neck due to chronic pain, shoulders, lower back (due to sciatica problem), and pelvis/glutes regions.
Sherry loves Traditional Chinese Medicine, and spends her spare time reading, focusing on continuing education learning more useful knowledge to benefit you as a client.
Sherry looks forward to helping you at Massage Addict St. Vital!
Liz Clark, Registered Massage Therapist
Liz graduated from Robertson College in 2019. She became an RMT for her strong desire to help others, and after discovering the importance of massage therapy after how much it helped her. Liz has been an avid gym goer and recreational athlete for most of her life. Massage therapy has been very beneficial to her training and it seemed like a natural progression career wise. Her treatment style is deep tissue, injury rehab, and post op related. Liz is also trained in Cupping.
Health and wellness are very important to her. she loves learning new things and being challenged to grow in new ways. She offers a mixture of treatment styles dependent upon client request and what is required to complete the goals of each client. She is trained in full body massage and can provide heavier pressure upon request. she specializes in providing a nice balance between relaxation and deep tissue massage.
Liz looks forward to assisting you with your health and wellness plan at Massage Addict St. Vital soon!
Kaushal Pandya, Registered Massage Therapist
Kaushal Pandya is a dedicated massage therapist aligned with NHPC and graduated from Wellington College in 2022. Kaushal specializes in Therapeutic massage using Deep Tissue, Trigger Point and Swedish techniques. He is also certified in hot stone, cupping, joint mobilization, and IASTM. He is very passionate about helping others achieve optimal wellness and has a keen understanding of the human body. Kaushal is committed to providing a personalized care treatment plan to each client and tailoring his treatments to address specific concerns all while promoting relaxation and healing. He looks forward to treating you at Massage Addict St Vital very soon.
Joan Roberts, Registered Massage Therapist
Joan Roberts attended Massage Therapy College of Manitoba (now known as Evolve) for massage therapy and graduated in 2017, and is aligned with NHPC. She chose massage therapy as she had a dog that had a lot of muscle adhesions and couldn't find a massage therapist to treat him so wanted to learn how to herself. Joan finds Love and find comfort in nature, and has even completed 8 ten-day silent meditations. She has always surrounded herself with lots of pets- and currently has a dog, cats, fish, and hermit crabs.
When she is not massaging, she can be found spending time with her pets and family - she would describe herself as a definite home body.
Joan's primary focus is on having clients feel safe and welcome, her treatments' tend to be more fascial in approach, and clients describe her treatments as relaxing, unique and continue to book on a regular basis.
Joan looks forward to assisting you with your wellness goals very soon!
Seun Olagunju, Registered Massage Therapist
Seun Olagunju graduated from Evolve college of massage therapy in the summer of 2020, and is aligned with RMTSMB. Seun found his passion for massage therapy, as he was able to realize that he has the ability to make others feel good therapeutically by making them for more at ease in the mind and body. He has been trained in Swedish, sports massage, myofascial joint mobility and structural therapy. Seun's treatments would be described as relaxation type with a fair treatment style. When Seun is not massaging, he studies and practices a style of kung-fu known as "Xin Yi" which is a sister art to Tai Chi. He enjoys it as a hobby, and as his process of self-care as an RMT. Seun looks forward to treating you to a relaxing massage at Massage Addict St. Vital soon!
Dora Pantoja, Registered Massage Therapist
Dora Pantoja graduated from Wellington College of Remedial Massage Therapies in June 2022. She was interested in massage therapy, because she has always been fascinated with how the human body works. She loves helping people with their health, recovering from injuries or with just getting a relaxation massage.
Dora uses a variety of approaches including Swedish massage, deep Tissue and Cupping to help reach the clients goals either short or long term.
Dora is excited for her career as a RMT at Massage Addict and to continue furthering her education within the field.
Dora will be at St Vital on Wednesday and Friday mornings, starting September 4th 2024!
Jessica Lynn Mendoza, Registered Massage Therapist
Jessica Lynn Mendoza, RMT is a 2024 graduate of Evolve College of Massage Therapy, and was also the recipient of the 2024 Massage Addict – Excellence in Massage Therapy award! She went through the athletic therapy program and found herself being drawn to manual therapy techniques compared to the other modalities that can be used for treatment. She found it very fascinating to see the body adapt to the basic massage techniques that she was taught during her program, so she decided to make the switch and solely focus on learning more about manual therapy. After studying the body for nearly eight years, she wanted to help individuals by easing their pain through the art of massage. Her goals moving forward would be to offer more treatment based sessions as well as focusing and emphasizing on women’s health. She would like to specialize in lymphatic drainage and to help educate the community especially with the female body and the changes it goes through.
Her experience in customer service has helped her strengthen her professional persona and has allowed her to separate it from her personal life. Although the customer service experience sets her apart, being an athletic therapy transfer has helped her increase the depth of her knowledge as a massage therapist.
Jessica Lynn is excited for her career as a RMT and to continue furthering her education within the field.
