Our Team
DR. JAY PROVENZANO
CHIROPRACTOR
Dr. Jay Provenzano is a south shore native and a 2003 graduate of New York Chiropractic College where he was named to the NYCC Dean’s List. His undergraduate studies were in Rehabilitation and Disability Studies at Springfield College. It was during his undergraduate time that Dr. Jay competed as a gymnast and was All-American on the rings twice.
Dr. Jay has extensive training in several soft tissue techniques such as Graston and Active Release Technique and has brought his extensive background as an athlete to the treatment and nutritional training of athletes in his professional practice. After the birth of his daughter, Dr. Jay knew that helping well and sick children, from infancy through the teenage years, was his heart’s true passion!
Dr. Jay’s care for his patients has earned him a reputation as one of the most comprehensive chiropractors around. His therapy involves complete diagnostic techniques and his gentle adjusting techniques are not limited to the spine, but can include every joint from the ankles to the TMJ.
Part of Dr. Jay’s success with his patients has been his reliance on nutritional factors to make the tissue of the body healthier.
Dr. Jay uses a “whole person approach” when taking care of his patients. By combining the very best hands-on technique, and state-of-the-art physiotherapy procedures, and providing the newest and best natural vitamins and herbal supplements on the market today, Dr. Jay is able to help you to accelerate and/or maintain your journey to good health. Combining herbalism, nutrition, exercise physiology, and chiropractic knowledge has made Elevate Wellness not only essential for health and healing but the future of natural therapy.
MICHELLE PLIZGA
OFFICE MANAGER
Michelle joined our wellness team in 2013. She will welcome you with a warm smile and make you feel right at home. Michelle is the assistant to Dr. Jay and oversees the everyday operations of the office. Her passion for natural health and chiropractic care brought her to us. She is thrilled to be a part of a practice that believes the body was made to heal itself. She lives a holistic lifestyle and is always willing to share recommendations. She is knowledgeable about our product lines and loves to chat about all thing’s food and supplements. She is a foodie who loves cooking paleo dishes and dreams of beach days ahead.
Michelle lives on the South Shore with her husband Brian, daughter Evanya, and her Australian labradoodle’s Birdie and Willow.
TAYLOR COTTER
PATIENT CO-ORDINATOR
CHRISTINE COTTER
MASSAGE THERAPIST
Christine has over 30 experience years in the healing arts! Licensed cosmetologist since 1987, an esthetician since 1988, and a licensed massage therapist since 1995. Christine is trained in a variety of skincare, bodywork, and massage modalities including facials, therapeutic, deep tissue, sports, prenatal, hot stone, and Thai yoga massage. Through her company, Skinsations by Christine, she has produced a Sea/cret Garden line of organic skin and body care products formulated primarily with herbal ingredients from her home garden on the Quincy shore since 2000. Christine received her yoga certification at Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health in Stockbridge, MA in 1999. She teaches gentle, beginner, and intermediate Kripalu Yoga, a form of Hatha Yoga that incorporates breath work, meditation, and physical postures to quiet the mind. She has continued her training to offer Prenatal, Children’s, Partner Yoga, Yin Yoga, Restorative, Five Element Yoga 12 Step Yoga and Recovery, Trauma-Informed Yoga, Yoga Nidra (a form of meditation) Sound Healing, Reiki and Plant Spirit Medicine.
“I had the delightful opportunity to meet Christine 30 years ago and have been a faithful client ever since. Her massages are especially nurturing and healing. I look forward to receiving them and Christine’s other healing modalities every month.”
Diane Fratolillo
Quincy, MA