Practitoners

Dr Marcus Chacos - Principle Chiropractor & Director

B.Sc.(Anat.), M.Chiropractic, M.Chiropractic Sports Science, Grad. Dip. Clinical, Certified Kinesiology Instructor

Marcus has been practicing since 1996 and is the principal Chiropractor and Director with INT. Marcus’ practice is based upon a philosophy that health is an inherent state in all people and by achieving balance between the physical, chemical and mental/emotional elements of ones life one may experience total body health and experience successful living.

Marcus incorporates Kinesiology, Diet and Nutrition, Homoeopathy, Herbalism and Exercise Prescription in his care and is focused on total body health and personal empowerment. Application of these techniques combined with education and caring support provides powerful impetus for lifestyle enhancement and personal healing and development.

Dr. Steven Hawkins-Chiropractor

Hi, my name is Steven Hawkins, and I work at Integrated Natural Therapies, helping people make profound and wonderful changes in their lives. If your reading this, I suppose you are curious to find out a bit more, so I will share with you a little about myself and my experiences.

I am 42 (almost) and live happily with my soul mate, Belinda. We have been married for 15 years, and have three gorgeous girls –Ysobel 9yrs, India 7 yrs and Anastasia 5yrs. We live just out of Queanbeyan on a farm with our dog Gus.I started working as a Chiropractor in Sydney 20 years ago – a diverse practice seeing a wide cross section of people from newborn babies to adults, athletes, office workers and tradies. Much of the work I did was acute “patch and fix” care. While I was serving a need, I found that many of these people would re-injure themselves or their health concern had returned, many would appear to be fine and I would not see or hear from them for several years, until I might bump into them in the street and find out that their health had slowly declined or heard that someone had passed on.

Now my work is focused on seeing people regain, express and live extraordinary lives! As a health coach I am extremely passionate about helping people get better, feel better and stay better - being the best they can be. Now most of the people I work with consult me on a regular basis.  And because we have a relationship over time, we can work together on whatever challenges come up.  People notice increasing health and vitality, measured both by their own assessment and through testing. Interestingly while most people initially come because of their symptoms, they stay because of their improved quality of life. How? Because together we focus on hope. You need to know that many people facing health challenges such as the ones you may be experiencing have found healing by approaching their health from a different perspective!

The problem is many people have had their health or quality of life decline and often they don’t realize it. Excuses such as “It’s because I’m getting older” or accepting that it is “normal” because the loss has been so gradual and so people stop striving to be better and accept the mediocre instead of exceptional. What a waste!!

By the way, most Chiropractors have themselves adjusted weekly, and their families weekly… have you ever wondered why? We know that having our nervous system working at its peak means there is the best possible communication happening in your body. So what! You might ask. Well, it is this through the nervous system we feel, love, cry, express, laugh- essentially live this existence in our physical body. The nervous system is the control system of the body - it is the way in which we interact with and sense our world, both internally and externally.  It allows us to increase our heart rate appropriately when we run up some stairs and turn it off again once we get to the top. It allows our digestion to work properly so we digest our food and absorb it correctly and repair our living selves…. and so much more. 

Part of my approach is to help people react better to the things that stress them in their lives. We know that stress is underpinning about 85 to 95% of most health issues and is a factor in most diseases. We know it is not the only factor, but it is one that is like a blind spot and is generally not well addressed. But how do you measure it really? It is like a will-o-the-wisp. People say they feel fine. So did many of the people before they dropped dead of a heart attack. So, how do you define what stress is? How does it affect you? Is it just a feeling you get? 

Technology has some wonderful uses. About six years ago I was introduced to some instrumentation that was previously only used in universities. It allows me to measure parts of your nervous system that tells me whether it is behaving in a healthy way when stressed. For me this was like walking on the moon  - so amazing and so exciting, and for you it means an independent way to know when what we are doing together for your health is really working – or not, beyond just “feeling” better. The beautiful thing is that it also enables you to retrain or “teach” your nervous system to behave in a healthier way. You take that with you wherever you go in life.

One of the many things I love about working at INT is that there really is an holistic approach to working with people. Health is not achieved just by exercising and not just with diet and not just with having a balanced nervous system. It is all of that and more. And what I love about the way we do things at Integrated Natural Therapies is that we really get to understand how people work and what their needs are so we can serve them better.

 Anna Dinka Tzafaris - Massage Therapist and Matrix Healing.

Anna Dinka has had extensive training in a variety of different areas. Anna Dinka has diploma in remedial massage. She has a passion and a gift for helping others. She not only works with clients in the practice but has been working with the ACT palliative Care Society to bring much needed compassion and support to the terminally ill.

Anna Dinka is renowned for her healing hands and the heat that they project. She uses a combination of therapies such as Matrix Healing (is an energetic healing process which allows emotional and bodily shifts to occur), Massage, Charkra cleansing (this practice uses aroma oils to balance the charkra’s)and Reiki which helps heal the emotional, physical and spiritual levels.

Anna Dinka believes that by allowing yourself the time to experience a feeling of rejuvenation and relaxation it allows you to let go of the everyday stresses that occur in life. Her techniques are specialized and unique to every client’s needs.

Anna Dinka’s approach to health and well being allows for pent up negative energy that does not serve you any longer to be released. Thus the shift in the body makes room for positive and inspiring forces to aid in moving forward .

Alistair Bevan- Massage Therapist

Hi, my name is Alistair but you can call me Al.  I have been interested in the holistic form of healing since the late 90’s and have recently started work in the field with INT.

My studies have primarily been with Om Shanti College with Diploma of Remedial Massage, which cover Swedish, Therapeutic, Remedial and Sports Massage.  I have also the privilege of training in KaHuna bodywork, which is a beautiful modality that has so many dimensions and it’s an honour to give.

This is a continuous journey of learning and I am very excited in participating in it.  I am often going to sort courses and workshops to develop and improve my techniques and service.  I have been in customer service roles all my working life and find this role as a massage therapist second to none. 

Annette Hennessy- Holistic Teacher

Hello, I am Annette. I am a mother of 4 wonderful young adults. I have been married to my soul mate for 25 years.

I have had an interest in natural therapies for many years and believe that our optimum health and wellbeing is not just based on diet and exercise. So after leaving the public service (25years) I pursued my interest in holistic health as I believe it to be my purpose.

I searched the internet for the right course for me to study and eventually found one in Holistic Counseling. By completing the course, I also healed a lot of my personal issues. Even though the course was titled Holistic Counseling – I don’t see myself as a counselor, but as an advisor or teacher. I explore the needs of the client and then advise them of how they are able to heal, but using a holistic approach.

Holistic healing recognizes each person’s innate healing processes and encourages the person to take responsibility for their own health and treatment. Holistic healing involves the use of the mind, body, spirit, heart and lifestyle. My role is to help you remember your innate ability and to teach you ways of bringing change into your life so you are best able to return to optimum health.

I work here at INT so I am able to continue learning about Natural therapies. I am a firm believer in regular chiropractic adjustments because I have seen how my own health has improved. My holistic health regime includes regular adjustments, meditation, regular energetic healings, massage, attending spiritual groups (being with like minded people), exercise, reading and study and the hardest bit of all for me (at this stage as I am still working on it), eating health giving foods.

I am currently studying the uses of Australian Bush Flower essences.

Love and Blessings to all

Annette