Orofacial Myofunctional Therapy in Ottawa, Ontario

  • Switching to nasal breathing boosts oxygen use, immunity, posture, and facial tone—our program helps make it second nature.

  • Tailored exercises tone the airway, reduce overnight tissue collapse, and support better breathing, oxygenation, and sleep.

  • Chronic facial tension can strain delicate muscle and nerve systems—therapy removes straining habits and restores balance.

  • Tight or imbalanced muscles can overload your jaw—gentle therapy exercises restore support, function, and ease.

  • Hidden tension in your facial and jaw muscles can trigger daily headaches—therapy helps release, rebalance, and retrain these muscle patterns.

  • Muscle imbalances can subtly reshape the face—our therapy rebuilds symmetry, posture, and definition for lasting facial balance.

  • Improve oxygen use, reduce cramps, and boost performance—our program trains nasal breathing and carbon dioxide tolerance to raise your endurance ceiling.

  • Support before and after your tie release—targeted therapy improves healing, prevents reattachment, and boosts long-term function for all ages.

  • Eliminate tongue thrust to protect your teeth, improve your swallow, and relieve symptoms like jaw tension, speech issues, and digestive discomfort.

  • Swallowing air can lead to bloating, reflux, and gas—targeted therapy retrains the way you chew, and swallow for lasting relief.

  • Clenching, nail biting, or thumb sucking habits reshape facial symmetry, straining muscles—our program helps you break the cycle and restore natural balance.

  • Mouth breathing disrupts healthy facial and airway development. Therapy trains your child to breathe nasally—supporting better sleep, focus, and facial growth.

  • Interrupted breathing during sleep can lead to ADHD-like symptoms, mood changes, and poor focus. Our child-focused therapy helps open the airway, improve sleep, and support healthy brain development.

  • Facial pain, earaches, or jaw tension may signal muscle imbalance. Therapy relieves discomfort and helps re-direct your child’s facial growth by balancing oral-facial muscles.

  • Children’s faces are still growing—and still moldable. With guided oral-facial toning, and symmetry, healthier facial growth can develop right alongside them.

  • Tension in the face, jaw, or neck can contribute to childhood headaches. Targeted therapy helps retrain oral-facial muscles, reduce strain, and support headache relief.

  • When speech sounds just won’t click, our therapy addresses the oral habits and muscle imbalances that may be getting in the way—supporting clearer, more confident communication.

  • Gentle muscle exercises, proper tongue posture, and new habits help widen the mouth as they grow—guiding teeth into better positions, reducing crowding, and supporting long-term oral health.

  • Untreated ties can pull on growing bones and muscles, disrupting your child’s development. We guide you through every stage to ensure the best outcome.

  • Tongue thrust can affect teeth, speech, and swallowing. Therapy retrains the tongue’s posture and function—supporting healthy habits and facial development.

  • Children often swallow air without realizing it—leading to bloating, gas, or stomach aches. Our program retrains these reflexes to support calmer, healthier digestion.

  • Thumb sucking, nail biting, and other oral habits can reshape growing faces. Our program helps your child gently stop these behaviors and support healthy facial development.

Building a Healthier You

The Benefits

Wide-ranging Health Improvements:

- Reduce snoring & apnea

- Alleviate facial pain

- Open upper airways

- Soothe headaches

- Ease ADHD symptoms

- Reduce harmful stress hormones

- Re-train upper swallowing muscles

- Soothe digestive discomfort

- Prevent long face syndrome

- Improve posture & core muscle stability

- Tone facial muscles

- Balance facial symmetry

- Enhance focus & memory

- Increase O2 levels

- Improve restfulness

- Lower blood pressure

- Strengthen the immune system


Our Approach

Targeted Muscle Therapy & Neuro-muscular Re-education:

We specialize in the muscles and tissues of the airway, jaw, face, head, and neck. Our therapists identify foundational imbalances caused by years of untrained habits. We prescribe daily exercises tailored to either tone or relax these muscles, resetting detrimental patterns and fostering beneficial long-term change. Our goal is to re-pattern the oral-facial muscles to improve function and health, targeting the root cause of issues for a comprehensive system-wide reset.


Length of Program

Lifelong Benefits:

Our program is finite and personalized. The therapy is designed to create daily habits that continuously establish a muscular balance that can provide lifelong benefits.


Best Age to Start

Suitable for All Ages:

Children benefit significantly as their structures and behaviors are more malleable, but adults can also see substantial improvements, enhancing the aging process and quality of life throughout their years.


Free Consult Eligibility

Open to Everyone:

Regardless of age, anyone can schedule a free consultation. This is a great opportunity to have your questions answered and meet your Orofacial Myofunctional Therapist in Ottawa, ON.