Meet Our Team
Our team is trying to give you the best experience
Touraj Zahiri
Acupuncturist
Meet Touraj Zahiri, our CTCMA Registered Acupuncturist. With 25 years of healthcare experience, he knows how to deliver customized treatment plans to patients. Before becoming an acupuncturist, Touraj worked in Anesthesia in operation rooms across hospitals. He’s always stayed current with the latest professional development courses to add to his skill set. What sets Touraj apart from other acupuncturists is his integration of Western and Chinese Traditional Medicine. This combination enables him to diagnose and treat patients effectively and efficiently. Touraj also excels at treating musculoskeletal pain, sports injuries, functional movement impairments, headaches, anxiety, insomnia, dizziness, migraine, digestive disorders and weight loss – to name a few! He’s well-versed in various TCM modalities, including body Acupuncture, articular Acupuncture, Scalp Acupuncture Facial Acupuncture, Tuina, cupping, moxibustion, Gua Sha, and LASER ACUPUNCTURE. When Touraj isn’t helping his patients, he loves to watch action, fantasy, and historical movies. He’s also an avid cyclist and swimmer. And here’s a fun fact – Touraj brought his four cats with him from Dubai!
Thomas Cheng
Acupuncturist
Mr. Thomas Cheng was born in Qufu in Shandong province, China and graduated from Tianjin Traditional Chinese Medicine School. He used to be the director of World Chinese Medical Union, the adviser for Vancouver Xi An Medical Society and the consultant of Hong Kong Institute of Traditional Chinese Medicine. He has been engaged in curative activities in the army for 14 years in China.
He came to Canada on the invitation from Canada Ministry of Public Health and Canadian Association of Acupuncture in 2000. He has accumulated up to 32 years’ clinical experiences in both China and Canada and published more than 11 scientific papers such as “The Treatment for Cervical Spondylosis – Discussion on Hand-Traction Maneuver”, “Treatment on 54 Cases of Cerebral Apoplexy Sequela”, among which “The Complex Treatment for 360 Cases of Prostatitis by Chinese Traditional Medicine” won the Outstanding Achievement Prize in the 5th World Traditional Chinese Medicine Conference and Hong Kong Zijin Flower Medical Golden Medal.
Moreover, he published over 150 papers such as “The Secrets of Acupuncture”, “The Prevention of Apoplexy by Collateral Channels Treatment”, “The Characteristics and Methods of the Treatment of Tumor by Chinese Medicine”, “The Discrimination of the Tumor Treatment between Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine”, etc.
Gholamreza Malekzadeh
Acupuncturist
I was medical doctor and Professor of Neurology in Iran for more than 30 years. I have completed 2 years of Acupuncture in PCU College in Vancouver in 2019 and work as Registered Acupuncturist . My main field of experience as Acupuncturist is treatment of headache , joint and tendon and muscle pain and internal disease, insomnia, depression and anxiety. laser acupuncture.
Jessica
Massage Therapist
Jessica graduated from the College of Traditional Chinese Medicine & Pharmacology Canada in 2019 . Before she got RMT license, she worked in spa field for long time. She is passionate about helping people of all ages with acute and chronic conditions to improve their wellness.
Jessica has been trained in Swedish, and deep tissue techniques, myofascial release, trigger point therapy, joint mobilizations, Pregnancy massage, hot stone therapy, reflexology, Reiki and also finished Vodder Lymphedema therapy level 1,2,3.
Her treatment consists of posture education, exercise plan, activity modification. Jessica always works together with her patients to achieve a short and long-term goal for treatment. She never stops learning — she strives to continue her study to become a better therapist for her patients. Jessica is able to provide service in English, Mandarin Chinese, and Taiwanese.
Matias Garay
Massage Therapist
Matias arrived to Canada at the age of 12 years old without any English background or knowledge. As the years went by, he decided that as a new immigrant he needed to strive to achieve a post-secondary education. He first became passionate about fitness and well-being by obtaining a fitness and leadership diploma from Hillptop Academy, he then he took various courses in Kinesiology at Langara college, but then he found his true passion, massage therapy.
Matias is a graduate from Vancouver College of Massage Therapy and has been working as a registered massage therapist since 2018.
After completing his graduation exam, and obtaining his license under the College of Massage therapist of British Columbia, Matias has always strived to give his best when it comes to providing care to all of his patients.
Through the years he has learned and trained in different therapeutic modalities such as sports massages, joint mobilizations, Myofascial release, Passive stretching, and also attended courses to provide patients with proper homecare exercises.
Matias strongly believes that all patients matter regardless of the state of their physical condition. All patients should be treated with care, helping everyone to achieve their goals to recovery, and be able to always give his best through the knowledge that he has acquired during the years as a registered massage therapist.
Arthur Truscott
Massage Therapist
As a graduate of Vancouver College of Massage Therapy in 2014, Arthur has the experience to employ a highly intuitive style of assesment and treatment. Having continued his education post graduation, he can choose from a plethora of massage techniques including the more subtle and gentle, like Fascial Stretch Therapy, and Biodynamic Myofascial Mobilization. He can also apply the more intense styles, like Very Deep MFR, and Active Trigger Point Release.
Arthur’s favourite form of exercise is weight lifting, but he has enjoyed a wide variety of recreation and sports in his life, and will almost certainly have some useful tips for improving performance, AND avoiding injury for your favourite activities!
Behzad Azari
Massage Therapist
After working a few months as a bodyworker, I decided to pursue professional massage therapy. I liked massage and due to market demand, schedule flexibility, I decided to invest almost three years of my life to get an education in Vancouver Career College and eventually got my RMT certificate from CMTBC in November 2022.
As an intern student massage therapist, I completed 330 hours of supervised hands-on practice and after registration I have served roughly 300 hours of practice as an entry level RMT.
Becoming a massage therapist was a big change as prior to massage therapy I worked in different fields like oil industry, project management and business owner.I am enjoying the job so far and stopped almost everything else to make time for this Therapeutic massage is what I prefer and would offer in different locations that I am working now.I work in Vancouver, North Vancouver and West Vancouver.
According to college of massage therapists of BC a massage therapist cannot market him/her self for specific type of service but in general massage therapy can help to reduce pain, increase mobility, reduce stress and increase quality of sleep; and that is about what i tell my clients if asked what kind of massage or outcome they should expect. Massage Therapy in BC is limited to body soft tissue and joints only and that is my scope of practice.
Dilek Kacar
physiotherapist
Dilek Kacar is practicing as a Physical Therapist at Synergy Health, Vancouver. She completed her Bachelor of Science in Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation at the University of Marmara, Turkey in 2017. She graduated as a high honor student with a degree and worked with many patients at any age who have neurological and orthopedic problems. Her approach is to understand the patient’s conditions that they are in and helping them to achieve their goals. She strongly believes that patients should take an active role in the treatment and cares about the importance of the exercises along with the manual therapy, education and the modalities. She thinks that helping other people and improving their quality of life is the best part of being a physical therapist.
She also cares about the ongoing learning to help her patients. She has attended Soft Tissue Release Course and K-Taping courses to improve her knowledge and skill. She is also interested in seeing pelvic floor patients and will be attending a course because she thinks that it also plays a major role in people’s life.
In her spare time, she plays volleyball, tennis and she loves biking during the summer time. She also loves cooking and trying different foods.
She is fluent in English and Turkish
