The Science of Wellness – Helix Healthcare Group Expands in Midtown By Briana Boldin #wellbeing

Toronto’s Midtown community recently welcomed a new addition to its family of healthcare practitioners with the expansion of the brand new Helix Healthcare Group location found on Eglinton Avenue just east of Yonge Street.

Helix Healthcare Group offers a unique approach to mental health and addiction therapy by combining a comprehensive mind-body perspective that treats each person as a whole with a team of highly specialized and passionate doctors and practitioners. This ensures that clients get the best information and personalized treatment along every step of their unique journey towards health, happiness, and true long-term wellness.

I had the chance to meet with Dr. Krystina Milloy, ND, of to talk about a new program that will be offered starting in January 2016. The new program, Helix Medical, will help bring a deeper focus to the physical and chemical aspects of the mind-body connection, allowing for a more thorough assessment process that will enable practitioners to make more accurate and effective recommendations for therapy programs.

Helix Medical will offer assessments like blood work, genetic screening, metabolic testing, and more. The condition of the body at the cellular level has a great impact on the body’s ability to heal physically, mentally, and emotionally. “By ensuring you have the physical building blocks necessary to support neurological rewiring, we’re helping to pave the path to health and wellness,” said Dr. Milloy.

Dr. Milloy explained that Helix Medical was born out of the understanding that the mind and body are intricately connected. The more modern science learns about neuroscience, the clearer it is that neither can be treated in isolation from the other. An approach that honours both the body and the mind is necessary. The goal of Helix Medical is to create a truly wholistic approach to mental health and addiction therapy programs by addressing the underlying physical aspects that affect mental wellness.

Anyone who has explored different types of mental health and/or addiction therapies in the past and has hit a wall or failed to find the success they seek are likely to discover new levels of both hope and success through the Helix Healthcare approach.

This new Midtown location offers so much more than just the programs and treatments for addiction and mental health clients. Currently, there are two weekly classes offered to the public for personal development and mind-body wellness. Each Thursday evening there is a Sweet Vibrations sound healing class to bathe your body in healing vibrations, and on Saturday mornings you can join a Mind, Body, Soul, and Movement wellness group that helps connect to deeper levels of self-awareness and expression through the power of dance and movement.

When leading institutions in the mental health industry like CAMH report that 1 in every 5 Canadians experiences a mental health or addiction issue in their lifetime, wellness programs like Helix Medical are an important step in the right direction towards restoring balance and health to our communities.

BRIANA BOLDIN is a GTA-based yogic therapist and health coach who specializes in chronic pain and degenerative illness.