Meet the Team

Founding Director of a dynamic and vibrant natural therapy clinic in the North Brisbane suburb of Wilston. Dr Sonia O’Brien (Chiropractor) launched Well & Wise to serve our community 21 years ago. Her passion is working in the area of family spinal wellness care, and educating families to get the most out of life by maintaining a healthy spine and musculoskeletal system. Dr Sonia treats all age groups, adapting a range of different techniques and treatment options to suit the patient’s needs, health and stage of life. In addition to chiropractic she has incorporated dry needling into her treatments to help enhance the outcome of her care.

Introducing Luke Sheedy, with over 20 years of Remedial Massage experience, as well as providing Professional Counselling services for the last 16 years. Luke has been enabling clients to lead better lives both physically and mentally. Also a Speaker and Author of 4 books, his passion is enabling others to be authentically themselves. Luke invokes in his clients what they already know but have forgotten, in coping with the everyday demands of life. If you are currently experiencing distress with some part of your life, and are feeling disconnected with yourself and life, Luke is your answer. At times life throws at us unexpected curve balls which create feelings of hopelessness and frustration. Sometimes we avoid and lose focus on whats important to our inner needs and wellbeing. Unfortunately our social interactions, interests, studies, family, work and intimate relationships suffer. Due to not knowing how to handle and deal effectively with what arises, we develop coping mechanisms and avoidance strategies which are counterproductive to our needs being met and our voices heard. If this sounds familiar to you, now would be a great time to visit Luke. Luke will provide a safe space for you to share your current challenges whilst enabling you to reconnect with your inner strengths and innate abilities. Encouraging you to rediscover for yourself better ways to think, respond to, and manage your current situation. So in the long term you will be better equipped for whatever life throws your way. Giving you a better reassurance that you are more than capable in dealing with ongoing life challenges as they arise in a more constructive and purposeful way without requiring continual help. In terms of Remedial Massage, your treatment will be tailored to suit your individual needs, with a variety of massage techniques to initiate and restore your body back to balance to a restore harmony. His approach to your session can be either on the physical level treating your present concern, or a more holistic one that enables you to become more self-aware of your body and take the necessary action in your pursuit for greater health and well-being. All different types of sports injuries can be dealt with as well as lower back pain, headaches, neck pain, shoulder pain, hip pain, calf and leg pain, sciatica and runners knee. He looks forward to meeting you and bringing about positive change in your life.