Our Practitioners

Kate has been a Registered Massage Therapist for thirty years. Kate grew up in a small town in New Brunswick, where she explored the outdoors and was active in athletics and team sports. That early experience shaped her curiosity and her passion for hands-on learning and life-long growth. After completing her BSc. in Biology at St. Frances Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Kate moved to Toronto to train at the Sutherland-Chan School of Massage Therapy. Kate has since practiced therapeutic massage in high-paced Toronto clinics (general and sports-related), in a rural home-based practice in Prince Edward County, and in two therapist-led clinics in Kingston. She has also been a teacher and mentor in Sir Sandford Fleming College’s Massage Therapy Program, Peterborough. In 2000 Kate and her partner moved to Kingston, where she first joined the Waterfront Massage Therapy Clinic, and then in 2002 moved to her present clinic, now renamed Wellington Street Massage. Kate has helped folks of all ages sustain their health and well-being. Based on the principles and practices of traditional Swedish Massage, Kate describes her approach as gentle, measured, and firm. 

Barbra Rose Perry has been a Registered Massage Therapist since 1985. She attended the New Mexico School of Natural Therapeutics for Massage Therapy and completed her board exams with the Ontario College of Massage Therapy. In 1990 she became a Trager Practitioner through the Trager Institute. 

Barbra Rose completed four years of training with the Sutherland Academy of Osteopathy. In addition to her training in Cranial Osteopathy with the Sutherland Academy, Barbara Rose has trained in Cranial Therapy with the Upledger Institute and in the Hancock Method of Cranial Therapy. 

Barbra Rose has completed advanced training in Jin Shin Do acupressure and has an acute awareness of patterns and blockages of energy flow in the body. In 2010 she also completed Matrix Repatterning training through the Matrix Institute in Newmarket, Ontario.

Using a blend of these modalities, Barbra Rose offers a holistic manual approach to the body's own ability to heal.

Kaja’s interest in massage therapy was inspired by the coming together of a life of physical activity specifically, running, skiing, swimming and yoga with the reality of aging experienced at 40 and beyond. Her interest also embraces the havoc stress and anxiety play in our physical health. Kaja has a strong intuitive style and a commitment to continued learning and is interested in working with clients of all ages.

Kaja Coleman is a Registered Massage Therapist and a graduate of Trillium College Kingston ( 2017). She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts from the University of Saskatchewan and a diploma in Early Childhood Education from Cumberland College (Saskatchewan).

Kaja returned to her home town, Kingston, in 2015 to be closer to her aging mother, after raising her 4 children and living in Saskatchewan for 18 years. With 3 children in university and one in high school she lives in the inner harbour area. Kaja enjoys being active and out of doors, gardening, woodworking, and playing the fiddle.