Registered Kinesiology Support
Bridging the gap between physical rehabilitation and mental health support.
Recovery, rehabilitation and managing changes in your physical health can affect much more than your body. You may be working hard on rebuilding strength, improving mobility, managing pain or returning to activities that matter to you, while also dealing with fear, frustration, anxiety, loss of confidence or difficulty trusting your body again.
Our Registered Kinesiologist Collaboration Support allows psychotherapy to work alongside your physical rehabilitation, addressing the mental and emotional factors that can sometimes make recovery feel even harder.
You May be here because:
Maybe you've been told you're physically ready to return to an activity, but mentally you don't feel ready at all. You might find yourself constantly monitoring your body for signs that something is wrong, avoiding certain movements because you're afraid of pain or re-injury, or becoming discouraged when your recovery doesn't happen as quickly as you hoped.
Or perhaps an injury, chronic pain or change in your physical abilities has affected your confidence, independence, identity or overall mental health.
You may be experiencing:
Fear of movement or re-injury
Difficulty trusting your body again
Anxiety when returning to exercise, work, sport or everyday activities
Chronic pain and the emotional toll of living with it
Frustration with slow or unpredictable progress
Low confidence following injury or illness
Avoidance of movements or activities because of fear
Difficulty staying motivated throughout rehabilitation
Feeling disconnected from your body
Stress related to a diagnosis or change in physical health
Loss of independence or changes in your usual routine
Grief around things your body used to be able to do
Changes in identity following injury or illness
Feeling like you're “behind” or should be recovering faster
Difficulty coping with setbacks during rehabilitation
Meet Neil Sheppard
Registered Kinesiologist & owner of Dynamic Strength Rehab
Neil is a Registered Kinesiologist and owner of Dynamic Strength Rehab, a gym in the heart of Oakville that specializes in strength rehabilitation and injury prevention. Neil helps people of all ages, including young athletes build resilient bodies that perform under pressure and recover faster from setbacks. His work is also rooted in supporting those struggling with the pressures of sports, those losing confidence or athletes and youth in sport who simply want to get stronger and stay healthy. With 15+ years of expertise and first hand experience as an athlete, Neil bridges the gap between physiotherapy and peak performance.
Neil’s services include:
Private Personal Training
One-on-one coaching, tailored to building strength, preventing injury and supporting your individual needs and goals.
Strength Rehab
Personalized strength programming to bridge the gap between rehabilitation and long-term strength, resilience and confidence in movement.
Virtual Rehab
Individualized programming, progress tracking and ongoing support delivered virtually, for injury recovery, prevention, strength and maintenance.
Dynamic Strength Rehab and Lauren Mallon Psychotherapy have come together to create a collaborative approach to support anyone looking for support with movement, physical health, strength, rehabilitation or overall well-being, including athletes at recreational, competitive and high-performance levels.
A Registered Kinesiologist may be supporting your movement, strength, physical functioning, exercise or rehabilitation goals. Psychotherapy focuses on another part of that experience: what happens mentally and emotionally while you're trying to get there.
For example, while your kinesiology work may focus on gradually returning to a particular movement, psychotherapy might address the anxiety that appears before attempting it, catastrophic thoughts about re-injury, frustration when progress feels slow, or difficulty trusting your body.
With your consent, collaboration between providers can also help ensure that the different parts of your care are working toward shared goals.
Psychotherapy does not replace medical care, physiotherapy, kinesiology or other physical rehabilitation. Instead, it can complement those services by supporting the person experiencing the injury, pain or physical change, not only the physical condition itself.
How Psychotherapy & Kinesiology Can Work Together
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Dynamic Strength Rehab offers in person in Oakville, Ontario and virtually across Ontario.