About Us

Shanika joins us originally from Sri Lanka, but has been residing in NZ since early 2025. With over 5 years of experience, she enjoys working with clients of all ages, various cultures, languages, and backgrounds. She uses both hands-on treatment, dry needling and active rehabilitation to support a full recovery for her clients..
Shanika’s Specialties include:

• Sports-related Injuries.
• Movement re-education
• Shoulder, spinal, ankle and knee rehabilitation
• Hand injuries

In her spare time, Shanika enjoys reading and exploring the great outdoors.

Susan works at our Halswell clinic

Susan has over 30 years of experience in Physiotherapy (she won’t tell you just how much over 30 years she has though!). She gained her manipulative postgraduate qualification and is a McKenzie Physiotherapist. Susan specializes in the Neck, TMJ and Spine

Outside of work Susan enjoys tramping, skiing, tennis and family.

Luke graduated from the University of Otago with a Bachelor in Physiotherapy. He has completed a Postgraduate Certificate in Occupational Health and a Postgraduate Diploma endorsed in Sports Physiotherapy
Luke has a keen interest in understanding how pain and impairments affect our ability to keep physically active and resilient. He comes with a collaborative assessment and treatment approach. Luke also speaks Korean and is happy to help Korean speaking clients.

Physiotherapy interests include:

• Knee, Shoulder and Lumbar Spine
• Pre/Post-operative Rehabilitation
• Occupational Health & Sport Rehabilitation
• Strength and Conditioning
• Running Assessments (Injury Management and Performance)

Tom is a graduate of the University of Otago with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy. He has pursued continued education in orthopaedic manual therapy and dry-needling
Tom’s physiotherapy interests include:

• Concussion and Vestibular Rehabilitation, especially BPPV
• Complex shoulder, spine, ankle and knee rehabilitation
• Post-operative Physiotherapy
• Gym rehabilitation programmes

Juliet graduated from the University of Otago in 1996 with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy and Physiology. She is a credentialed McKenzie clinician. Robyn McKenzie was a famous NZ Physio whose courses are taught worldwide and the author of “Treat Your Own Back” among others. Juliet’s areas of physiotherapy interest include all musculoskeletal sprains or injuries and she enjoys helping clients return to full function.

• Sports-related injuries
• Shoulder, ankle and knee rehabilitation
• Stretching and Strengthening to manage injuries
• Gym rehabilitation programmes

In her spare time, Juliet plays tennis, tramps and skis, and is learning to play golf.

Anil joins our team with almost 20 years of Physiotherapy experience, most recently working in Kuwait with the National Guard. He has his Masters in Physiotherapy (Musculoskeletal) from Pune, India
Anil prioritizes clients’ key concerns and gets clients back to the things they love doing.
His Physiotherapy interests include.

• Sports related injuries
• Working with adolescent injuries and recovery
• Spinal rehabilitation programmes

Ashley is a graduate of the University of Otago with a Bachelor of Physiotherapy. She is working at our Halswell Clinic.
She prioritizes clients’ key concerns and gets clients back to the things they love doing.
She uses a holistic approach to get to know her clients while providing them with skills for future self-management and injury prevention. Her Physiotherapy interests include:

• Sports related injuries
• Stretching and Strengthening to manage injuries
• Gym rehabilitation programmes

Michelle has over 20 years of Physiotherapy experience, graduating from the University of Alabama at Birmingham with a Masters in Physical Therapy. Michelle went to the US on a tennis scholarship and continues to play tennis in the Premier Competition in Christchurch.

Michelle’s specialties and areas of interest include:

• Vestibular rehabilitation including Vertigo, dizziness and headaches
• Child and Adolescent postural and growing pains
• Tennis related injuries
• General sports injuries