Guelph Women’s Health Associates Physiotherapy

Shannon Clutton Carr 

Registered Physiotherapist, Pelvic Health Physiotherapist & Pilates Instructor

Hons.B.Kin, MPT, CGIMS

Shannon graduated with a Masters in Physical Therapy from Western University in 2009. Shannon offers over 10 years of clinical experience in orthopedics/sports injuries and started her pelvic floor treatment journey in 2018. She enjoys treating people who are experiencing low back, pelvic, or hip pain, urinary incontinence or urgency, and pelvic organ prolapse. Shannon is passionate about positive birth experiences and post-partum recovery and loves coaching people through their perinatal periods (prenatal and post-partum). She launched the Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support Series online and in person at GWHA in collaboration with Guelph Family Doulas in 2019 and continues to support her community virtually as a peer facilitator with the Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support Centre. Shannon understands the complex physical, mental, and emotional impacts of pelvic conditions, and uses a trauma-informed approach in all of her clinical care.

Shannon has lived in Guelph most of her life and enjoys exploring the city with her kids. She loves her Peloton, drinking a good coffee with friends, reading, baking and gardening.

Areas of Specific Training:

• STOTT Pilates mat and reformer training
• Infant feeding assessment including tongue tie release pre- and post-treatment
• Breast health assessment and treatment for issues related to lactation
• Post-partum recovery and return to activity/sport
• GUNN IMS dry needling/trigger point needling

Areas of Clinical Interest:

• Pre-natal care including labour and delivery preparedness
• Post-partum recovery for all levels of activity
• Pelvic pain including pain with penetrative intercourse
• Acute or chronic low back or hip pain
• Core rehabilitation
• Dance-related injury rehabilitation
• Pelvic floor rehabilitation after pregnancy loss

Eliza Pereira-Karve

Registered Physiotherapist & Pelvic Health Physiotherapist

BPT, MPT

Eliza has a special interest in women’s health and pelvic health physiotherapy. Her foray into pelvic health physiotherapy began not as a therapist, but as a patient. Her firsthand experience of the benefits of pelvic health physiotherapy and the positive influence it had on her quality of life, motivated her to pursue formal training in pelvic health.

Eliza graduated in 2009 with a Masters in Physiotherapy. She began practising in Ontario in 2011 with a diverse orthopaedic caseload and gradually transitioned to a focus on treating women. She has completed numerous courses focussed on treating incontinence, pelvic pain, dyspareunia, vaginismus, diastasis rectus abdominis, pelvic organ prolapse and pelvic girdle pain, to name a few. In 2021, she completed a pelvic health focussed, clinical mentorship in the Integrated Systems Model (ISM) approach with Diane Lee and associates in British Columbia.

Eliza has experience working with women of all ages, assisting them to overcome sexual health-related challenges, prepare for childbirth, return to exercise and activity after pregnancy and to age gracefully from peri to post menopause.

Eliza strongly believes that optimal health is a combination of a healthy body, and a resilient spirit and mind. She uses a whole person treatment approach that involves sensitive communication, education, manual therapy and individualized exercise prescription and modalities.

When she is not practising, Eliza likes travelling with her spouse to off the beaten path destinations. She also enjoys all things artsy and craftsy.

Areas of Specific Training:

• Diane Lee Integrated Systems Model ISM series
• Integrative menopause management
• Urinary system fascia mobilisation
• Diastasis rectus abdominis assessment and conservative management
• Piston science and female athlete rehabilitation

Areas of Clinical Interest:

• Pelvic girdle pain
• Post menopausal pelvic health
• Prenatal and postnatal rehabilitation including diastasis rectus abdominis, prolapse and incontinence
• Pelvic and abdominal pain including vaginismus, endometriosis, and interstitial cystitis

Aishwarya Desai

Physiotherapist Resident

BSc (Bio), MPT

Aishwarya Desai graduated from Western University in 2020 with a Masters of Physical Therapy. She also obtained a Bachelor of Science with honours in the fields of Biology and Medical Physiology from the University of Waterloo in 2018.

Aishwarya offers over 2+ years of clinical experience in orthopedics and neural rehabilitation and has been treating pelvic floor dysfunction since 2021. Aishwarya has experience working with women of all ages, helping them overcome urinary, fecal and urge incontinence, as well as pelvic pain. She works alongside expecting mothers, with the aim of helping them prepare for childbirth, postpartum rehabilitation and returning to exercise and/or day to day activity following their pregnancy. She also treats pelvic organ prolapse and constipation and guides her patients as they undergo menopausal and peri-menopausal changes.

Aishwarya has worked with a wide variety of patient population, including those suffering from adhesive capsulitis, low back pain, carpal tunnel, plantar fasciitis, post-operative rehabilitation, arthritis; cardiorespiratory conditions such as pneumonia, COPD, atelectasis; and neurological conditions such as stroke, MS, Glioma, and Parkinson’s Disease.

Aishwarya speaks English, Hindi, Gujarati, Punjabi and Marathi and would love to use this knowledge to provide the best possible care for her patients.

Areas of Specific Training:

• Level 1 Manual Therapy
• Hand and upper extremity rehabilitation from Roth/McFarlane Hand and Upper Limb Center
• Level 1 and 2 of Pelvic Health Physiotherapy
• Post-partum rehabilitation following cesarian birth

Areas of Clinical Interest:

• Urinary, feal and urge incontinence
• Pelvic pain, including pain associated with intercourse
• Post-partum recovery, and post-partum return to exercises
• Acute and chronic neck and shoulder pain

Jessica Dorado

Receptionist, Regional Administrative Trainer

Jessica holds a degree in Geography from the University of Guelph and a diploma in Baking and Pastry Arts Management from George Brown College. She first joined EPA’s Bullfrog location in 2015 where she worked full-time reception for a year before going to pastry school. Jesica worked at the University of Guelph pastry kitchen where she focused on recipe development and ensuring smooth day to day operations. With the impacts of COVID-19 on the hospitality industry, Jessica excitedly rejoined the EPA team in 2020 at the Guelph Women’s Health location. Jessica is your main contact person for any booking and billing inquiries at GWHA.

Jenn Wrixon

Receptionist

Jen has done so much since the age of 16 that it would take a whole web page to list it all. Here’s the short version: after living in a remote cabin in the British Columbia woods, she moved back to Ontario in her 20s and became a Registered Reflexologist and Certified Aromatherapist. She put her practice on hold to raise two beautiful daughters, but eventually found herself drawn to creative business—and has refinished furniture, crafted wall hangings, created jewelry, and painted fine art for clients for more than a decade. Pandemic isolation made her miss people, so now you’ll find her at the front desk of Guelph Women’s Health Associates. Jen’s hobbies and interests include cooking, walking in Guelph’s Preservation Park, running, and anything creative.

Megan Diamantopoulos (Currently on Maternity Leave)

Part-Time Receptionist

Megan has a Family and Social Relations degree from the University of Windsor. She is currently completing training at the Newman Clinic to become a licensed lactation consultant. Megan can be found working the front desk in the evenings at Guelph Women’s Health Associates.