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Olivia Leyden, Oak Bay Administrative Team

Olivia Leyden is an upper-year Bachelor of Arts candidate at the University of Victoria, where she is also completing a minor in Linguistics. She is completing her honours thesis in the upcoming academic year. Post-graduation, she plans on pursuing graduate studies in speech-language pathology to become a registered speech-language pathologist (SLP).

She is passionate about health care and healthy development across the lifespan. When not working the front desk at Arbutus’s Oak Bay location, Olivia volunteers with the Victoria Stroke Recovery Association, facilitating conversation and communication with adults who have had strokes.

Outside of work and volunteering, you can usually find Olivia with a specialty coffee in her hand, on a hike, or playing tennis.

Olivia Leyden smiles with sunglasses on top of her brown curly hair, wearing a grey knit sweater, her bag slung over her shoulder, holding a to-go coffee with both hands.
Olivia Leyden works at our Oak Bay location.
Suvi Teigen takes a selfie with her black doodle dog, while wearing a black toque that says, "You got this."

Flexible and thorough

“I contacted Arbutus Physio in desperation for a last-minute appointment while visiting from out of town due to significant pain. Josh accepted me for a same-day appointment and did a thorough assessment and treatment that left me feeling MUCH better immediately. Obviously, healing takes time and I’ll need to continue once I return home, but…

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Athletic background

“Because of Sandy’s own athletic background she brings both a deeper sense of what is going on and the sense of urgency that most people feel when they are injured. When you have something wrong you just want to get on with it. Sandy has an incredible feel for what is going on and how…