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Meet Our Team 

Nicole McIntyre

FOUNDER | CO-OWNER of NOVA HOLISTIC SPA

Nicole is the founding visionary, co-owner and manager of Nova Holistic Spa. She is passionate about helping people live their best life and spreading positivity and harmony through holistic health – mind, body and spirit, in order to be, feel, and radiate total health and harmony, inside and out.  

After a varied and rewarding professional life as a musician (travelling the world as a backing vocalist for Australia’s most successful bands Savage Garden and recording and performing with many other Australian musicians & successfully publishing 3 albums of original material), Nicole decided to formalise her musicianship with a songwriting degree from UTAS. This then led to a masters in music therapy and in holistic counselling. 

Nicole has always led a holistic approach to life and is an empath at heart. And it was during her masters studies that she realised her calling and passion to bring out the best in others. 

Once graduated and in between jobs, Nicole confided with her sister Kylie (a level 2 Australian sports coach, pilates instructor and business professional) her desire to integrate her skills along with her music therapy and counselling studies together and find work as a holistic counsellor. But, sometimes the universe has a way of leading you on a different trajectory and instead Nicole (along with her sister) took a huge leap of faith to become 1st time owners of a brand new day spa with no clients at all, but a space that suited their vision. 

And just 5 months later a beautiful, tranquil and homely space called Nova Holistic Spa, in central Hobart, was born offering opportunities for local Hobart residents and tourists the opportunity to proactively and holistically optimise their overall health – mind, body and spirit, on a cellular level, with services such as: Hobart’s only Therapeutic Thermal Therapy facility, massages, functional skin health facials, Tasmania’s only mHBOT and Infrared Amethyst BioMat and holistic counselling. 

Nicole is a qualified holistic counsellor, massage therapist, corneotherapist, musician and vocal coach; and along with her day spa management experience and wonderful team of professional therapists on hand, Nicole has created a stunning, tranquil, homely space at Nova, and just one year in it is proving to be a popular wellness haven.

Qualifications & Credentials

  • BMus
  • GradDipCouns (Honours)
  • Certification Massage therapy
  • Certified Corenotherapist
  • MMusTher – (in progress) completed all academic units and almost completed practical hours. Nicole is associated with her professional music therapy organisation as a student and is thus indemnified to practise in this capacity. So, make an appointment now to take advantage of her very affordable “master in training” rates.
  • A vast range of life experiences and a sixth sense to tap into feelings and the intricacies of what lies underneath someone’s problem and an excellent ability to communicate with people in a compassionate, warm manner.

Special Interests: music | songwriting | singing | writing | history | ancestry | sociology

Josephina Schwartz

REMEDIAL MASSAGE THERAPIST

As a competitive gymnastics athlete for many years (representing her home country) Josephina knows first-hand that massage therapy is an integral part of injury prevention, rehabilitation, and overall health.

Josefina’s treatment style is fluid, grounding and calming and combines Swedish relaxation massage, trigger point therapy, myofascial release, and gentle therapeutic stretching techniques.

Qualifications: Diploma Remedial Massage

Special Interests: walking her rescue dog | boxing | Mai Thai | working out at the gym

* HICAPS available for remedial massage

Clinton MacDonald

REMEDIAL MASSAGE THERAPIST

Clinton is a remedial massage therapist who prides himself on isolating and resolving deep tissue discomforts and assisting in injury management in both recovering injuries or aches and pains that hang around the body. Having worked with people of all sorts of health status and ages – Clinton takes the approach of getting to know how to treat people on an individual level and maintain the trust required to make sure people leave their treatments feeling the improvement and relaxation massage can provide.

Clinton is a philosopher at heart and believes massage to be a method of relaxation and bodily care second to none, complimenting everything from holistic and spiritual self-care to recovery and management of many conditions and injuries.

Qualifications: Diploma Remedial Massage

*HICAPS available for remedial massage

Cynthia Moclio

MASSAGE THERAPIST

Cyntia joins the Nova team as a Lomi Lomi and relaxation massage therapist having recently arrived in Hobart from Argentina. She is a beautiful soul and has a very calming energy. With a keen interest in movement, connection to nature and in the joys and benefits of mind, body & spiritual integration for overall wellbeing she is keen to bestow the healing properties of Lomi Lomi massage to as many people as possible. With a background in the corporate world as a human resources manager for multinational organisations, she has now pivoted her focus toward her true calling to help improve the lives of others and is currently studying nursing.  

Cyntia is also a Yoga and meditation teacher and enjoys reading, swimming and taking dancing lessons, spending time in nature and outdoor sports.

Qualifications:  Level 2 Lomi Lomi | Bodywork certification | Yoga Teacher certification

Marie Mitchell

HOLISTIC CONCIERGE

As Concierge for Nova Holistic Spa, Marie looks forwardto welcoming you to a tranquil place of healing and total relaxation, where you may find your Zen and remember your magic.