Audrey Collins,
CARI Teaching Team
Audrey graduated from the Physical Rehabilitation Therapy Program at College Francois-Xavier Garneau in Quebec in 2008. She developed a keen interest in aquatic rehab and her post-graduate courses include VWT Healing Waters (CALA), Foundations and Advanced Aquatic Physical Therapy (CARI), Aquastretch (AquaStretchCanada), Back Splash-Chronic Back Pain (FortheLoveofFit). Her scholarly pursuits resulted in completion, in 2017, of the 12-day Valens Aquatic Course, with certification in Water Specific Therapy, Bad Ragaz Ring Method, Aerobic Conditioning for Neurological, Orthopedic and Rheumatic Patients, Aqua T-Relax and Clinical Ai Chi at Kliniken Valens, Switzerland with Johan Lambeck and Urs Gamper. Audrey was our Canadian rep at the Evidence-Based Aquatic Therapy Conference in Las Vegas in 2017. Audrey is a member in good standing of the Canadian Physiotherapy Association and Canadian Aquafitness Leaders Alliance. She is certified with the International Aquatic Therapy Faculty.
She has 17 years of experience in rehabilitation and her practice focus is the rehabilitation of clients with spinal cord injury, traumatic brain injury, neurological and orthopedic injuries. Her clinical practice is in Minden, Ontario, where Audrey has her own purpose-built therapy pool working with a wide collaborative medical community to provide aquatic therapy. Community advocacy and education has been required to achieve her facility. Audrey is a core member of the CARI teaching team, able to provide education in French, and is excited to grow the practice of evidence-based aquatic therapy with therapists across Canada.
Contact: audrey.rehab@gmail.com
