About Empower Health

Empower Health Clinic provides a truly integrated healthcare approach that works with you — providing exactly the right solutions, tools, programs and expertise you need. It’s healthcare in the present, a multi-disciplinary healthcare model you can see, feel and experience. We get to work together, to help you feel BETTER NOW.

How Does Neurofeedback Improve Neuroplasticity?

By |2022-10-06T07:24:10-07:00October 3rd, 2022|Categories: Health Education, Neurofeedback|Tags: , , , , , , |

Just a few decades ago scientists thought of the brain as a fixed entity and something that cannot be changed or improved. Fortunately, now we know this is not true and science has proven that the brain has the ability to be plastic and alter its connections, organisation and function. This change in the brain ...

Traditional Chinese Medicine Practitioner Joining our Team in East Vancouver!

By |2022-09-15T16:56:18-07:00September 15th, 2022|Categories: Empower Team|Tags: , , , |

I am a Doctor of Traditional Chinese Medicine (Dr. TCM) who will be joining the collaborative healthcare team at Empower Health this Fall season in September 2022. I am moving my full-time Chinese Medicine practice from Victoria, BC to Vancouver and am delighted to be based on Commercial Drive in East Vancouver, a vibrant diverse ...

Traditional Chinese Medicine History and Why You Should Add it to Your Wellness Plan

By |2022-08-24T15:50:10-07:00August 12th, 2022|Categories: Health Education, Therapies|Tags: , , , , , |

Many practitioners and patients today are moving towards integrative wellness and if you are eager to include Chinese Medicine to your wellness regime or as an adjunct to your biomedical treatment plan, it’s beneficial to have a general understanding of Chinese Medical theory, physiology and significant historical context. Chinese Medicine is a potent medical system ...

Got Anxiety? Here’s How a Psychologist Could Help

By |2023-03-26T00:09:39-07:00July 26th, 2022|Categories: Conditions, Health Education|Tags: , , , , , |

Got Anxiety? Here’s How a Psychologist Could Help “I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”  Can you relate? Mark Twain may have spoken the following words in 1934, but they can probably apply to almost anyone who reads them today.  Worrying about this or ...

Ketamine Therapy for Depression: What You Should Know

By |2022-08-12T17:39:56-07:00July 13th, 2022|Categories: Health Education|Tags: , , , |

Ketamine Therapy for Depression: What You Should Know Statistics show that roughly 8% of all Canadian adults are suffering from depression at any given time. And the COVID pandemic has only made depression rates climb higher. As of April 2021, one in four Canadians were experiencing depression, anxiety, or PTSD. [1]  Despite being so common, ...

Neurofeedback: A Promising Treatment for Depression

By |2022-08-12T17:40:49-07:00July 7th, 2022|Categories: Health Education, Neurofeedback, Therapies|Tags: , , , |

Depression affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide. Depression, also known as Major Depressive Disorder, is a mood disorder that will affect one in eight Canadians at some point in their lives. For many of these people, neurofeedback offers a promising next step. As an alternative to traditional treatments, neurofeedback requires no prescription and no ...

Reducing Pain by Promoting Healing with Prolotherapy

By |2022-06-02T11:37:11-07:00June 2nd, 2022|Categories: Therapies|Tags: , , , |

Prolotherapy - Reducing Pain by Promoting Healing How does prolotherapy help with pain? Want to utilize your body’s own natural capacity to heal pain? Prolotherapy may be what you are looking for. Prolotherapy is a series of injections that, over time, help an unstable or painful body part regenerate and heal. The injection is a ...

How to Reduce Hypertension Naturally

By |2022-07-05T16:00:50-07:00May 17th, 2022|Categories: Conditions, Health Education|Tags: , , |

How to Reduce Hypertension Naturally Today is World Hypertension day and we at Empower Health are eager to provide Naturopathic options for treating and preventing high blood pressure.  High blood pressure (also known as hypertension) is a common concern in our communities as it increases our risk of more serious conditions that affect our heart ...

Professionally Guided Neurofeedback at Home!

By |2022-07-26T17:35:18-07:00May 2nd, 2022|Categories: Health Education, Neurofeedback|Tags: , , |

What is Neurofeedback? Neurofeedback, also called Neurotherapy, is a type of biofeedback that uses a real-time display of electrical brainwave activity to teach self-regulation of brainwave functions. The collection of this information for clinical purposes is called a qEEG, or Quantitative Electroencephalography. This information is analyzed and a “brain map” of the data is created. ...

Benefits of IV Drip Therapy

By |2023-06-06T09:50:58-07:00December 17th, 2021|Categories: IV therapy, Therapies|Tags: , , , |

Intravenous nutrient therapies, commonly known as IV drips, are sought after by high performance athletes, grandparents of the year, and everyone in between.  IV medicine is unique to other forms of nutrient supplementation in its unparalleled ease of customization. Various components, from amino acids to vitamins and minerals, are selected and dosed by our naturopathic ...