Maria I. McCloskey

Maria I. McCloskey practitioner at the integral health clinicGrowing up in Colombia inspired by multiple family members in the health professions (specially her homeopathic doctor and dentist mother) Maria's vocation was always obvious since childhood. At age 14 along with her family she moved to Canada, her father's homeland. While studying Biology at Concordia University in Montreal and then at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Maria had the opportunity of enrolling in an apprenticeship with a renowned Osteopath who inspired her into the profession. She became familiarized with Osteopathy and fell in love with it, amazed at how just a pair of hands could help so many patients get better. She eventually made the decision of enrolling in the IEOQ Osteopathy program in Montreal, and graduated with a D.O in June 2011.

During her time at Concordia Maria was able to volunteer in Southern France at different herb/plant remedy farms where she had the privilege of learning about herbal medicine and Bach Remedies. During her time in Osteo school, she had the opportunity to attend orthopedic surgery, vaginal and cesarean births, as well as ectopic pregnancy surgeries at the Partenon Clinic in Bogota, Colombia. Maria had the chance of working with post-partum mothers and newborns, providing osteopathic care to both and seeing the incredible benefits of post-partum and early pediatric osteopathic treatment.

Throughout her time in Osteo School, during her clinical practice year in Ottawa (under the supervision of Brian Sudledsky, D.O, and Marc Desjardins, D.O) and to this day, Maria has treated patients of all ages and conditions, from infants to the elderly, in both Canada and Colombia. Her passion and current specialty is visceral and cranial osteopathy, supported by her ongoing enrollment in continual education through the Barral Institute for Visceral and Neural Manipulations and Upledger institute for CranioSacral Therapy.

Maria is fluent in Spanish, English and French.