Trust the judgment
behind the treatment.
A treatment can be available almost anywhere. The clinical depth behind the decision is not.
Medical aesthetics can look deceptively simple from the outside. A syringe. A laser. A device. A treatment name. What is harder to see is everything that has to happen before treatment should begin.
Sonia Vilos
BSc (Hons), BScN, MScN-NP, NP
- Founder
- Clinical Lead
- Medical Director
The difficult cases do not only arrive through her own door.
Most patients never see the side of aesthetic medicine Sonia Vilos knows particularly well: the decisions between clinicians, the anatomy that isn't obvious from the surface, and the cases that need a more experienced perspective.
As the founder, Nurse Practitioner and Medical Director of skinalchemy, Sonia's influence extends beyond her own patients. She educates practising injectors through Galderma's professional training programs, including train-the-trainer education, and provides medical direction to other aesthetic practices.
Her own education has taken her into advanced anatomical study, repeated cadaver dissection and international masterclasses with leading specialists. She also incorporates facial ultrasound into selected assessments and has advanced training in complication management and corrective aesthetic medicine.
What does that mean when you're the person in her chair?
It means the concern you notice is considered in the context of your entire face. Previous treatments, underlying support, tissue quality and proportion can all change the recommendation. Sometimes the most beautiful result comes from an approach you hadn't considered.
Sonia brings extraordinary clinical depth to an equally personal pursuit: creating an aesthetic result that feels worth the decision to have it done.
Tina Nguyen
BSc, RRT
- Facial Injectables | Laser | Regenerative Care
A plan is useful. The patient outranks the plan.
Tina Nguyen works in two very different treatment rooms. In one, she cares for patients in hospital and anaesthesia settings. In the other, she practises facial aesthetics.
Both have shaped the practitioner she is today.
A Registered Respiratory Therapist with a science degree from Western University, Tina continues to work across operating rooms, critical care and paediatric dental anaesthesia. Alongside that career, she has pursued extensive aesthetic education, including advanced injectable training with Dr. Arthur Swift, Allergan and Restylane, and specialized training in collagen biostimulators, laser and regenerative treatments.
Those experiences contribute different things to her work. Her aesthetic training has developed her understanding of facial anatomy, proportion and technique. Her clinical career has taught her to pay attention even when a procedure is familiar, to notice small changes and to reassess when the expected response isn't what she sees.
For patients, that means the person treating their face brings both a trained aesthetic eye and years of experience in clinical environments where observation is essential.
Tina understands the importance of a beautiful result. She also understands everything that has to go right before that result can be achieved.
Alexandra Kingston
- Lead Medical Aesthetician
- Advanced Laser Specialist
Two clinics can purchase the same technology. They cannot purchase the same person behind it.
A laser has settings. Skin has a history.
Alexandra Kingston has spent more than two decades understanding how the two should meet.
A Medical Aesthetician and skinalchemy's Lead Skin & Laser Specialist, Alexandra began her advanced aesthetics education in 2005. Her career has extended into professional teaching and curriculum development, including work associated with Fanshawe College and Elegance, alongside extensive education in advanced laser technologies and specialized CO₂ resurfacing.
She has spent years both treating skin and teaching others how to understand it.
That experience matters when choosing between technologies that may sound similar but act very differently. Pigmentation, visible vessels, texture, collagen and more significant resurfacing concerns each require their own approach. The most advanced machine is only as useful as the understanding behind its selection.
Alexandra's work considers the skin's condition, its treatment history and the result someone hopes to achieve. Sometimes that means carefully controlled surface refinement. Other times, more intensive resurfacing is appropriate.
For patients, the benefit is more than access to sophisticated technology. It's having someone with decades of experience deciding how to use it to create skin that looks clearer, smoother and beautifully treated.
Anna Cox
RN, MN
- Nurse Educator
- Aesthetic Injector
A result chosen with the person who will wear it.
A face is rarely still. It changes when someone smiles, concentrates, laughs or raises an eyebrow. Understanding those movements is an important part of deciding how to treat it.
Anna Cox brings a background in nursing and clinical education to that work.
A Registered Nurse with a Master of Nursing, Anna has experience in mental health and educating other nurses in clinical technique and professional practice. She began her aesthetic training in 2019, developing an additional area of expertise that combines technical treatment with aesthetic judgment.
At skinalchemy, her current focus is neuromodulators.
Anna considers how the face moves and what a patient actually wants to change. Someone seeking softer expression lines may have a very different preference from someone who wants a smoother, more noticeable result. The treatment should reflect that distinction.
Her nursing-education background brings another valuable dimension: the ability to explain clinical decisions clearly, so patients can understand what is being considered and why.
For Anna, the goal is not to give every face the same expression. It's to create an attractive, considered change that belongs to the person receiving it.
Different hands.
One standard of reasoning.
Different practitioners bring different histories, scopes and areas of depth. Those differences should not be flattened. Their credentials are not interchangeable, and they are not meant to be. Each works within their own professional scope and the authorizing structure their role requires.
Shared patients are a normal part of the practice. One practitioner may lead one layer of care while another manages a different layer, because the treatment job belongs to different expertise. The plan can move between practitioners without becoming separate plans.
- Sometimes the answer is another treatment.
- Sometimes it is another opinion.
- Sometimes it is correction.
- And sometimes the most important treatment is the one that does not happen.
Patients rarely see this layer of aesthetic care. It is worth finding out whether yours does.
A question is enough to begin.
Arrive with a concern or a treatment in mind. We can begin with either.
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