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Youth Addictions

Providing comprehensive mental health counseling and consultative services to individuals, companies and government departments since 1979. Individualized, creative, flexible and personalized interventions.

Youth Mental Health

Professional organization that represents and regulates occupational therapists in Nova Scotia.

Youth Addictions

Works at the community level and supports the resilience and recovery of people experincing mental illness through our social support programs. We also provide information on mental health services; raise awareness about the need for increased funding for mental health resources and individuals living with serious mental illness; and work to create a community that cares about mental illness and mental health.

Mental Health Counselling

Offers a 4 session group counselling program to individuals who are experiencing difficulty with anger management and teaches them how to control their anger, identify anger triggers and about emotional intelligence.

Youth Mental Health

The Nova Scotia Association of Social Workers (NSASW) is the professional and regulatory body for social workers in Nova Scotia. It helps ensure that all social workers are practicing within accepted standards, and helps advocate and promote the profession of social work. "Social work is a profession concerned with helping individuals, families, groups and communities to enhance their individual and collective well-being. It aims at helping them develop their skills and the ability to use their own resources and those of the community to resolve problems. Social work is concerned with individual and personal problems but also with broader social issues such as poverty, unemployment and domestic violence."

Adult Addictions

Individual psychotherapy and couples/marital therapy. Working with individuals, my areas of practice include depression, anxiety disorders (panic disorder, agoraphobia, social anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, phobias, PTSD), anger management, pain management, grief/loss, self-esteem/self image, divorce/separation, habit change/impulse control (e.g., weight loss/management, gambling, “sexual addiction”, “internet addiction”), assertiveness/social skills, substance abuse (e.g., cigarettes, alcohol, other drugs), abuse (emotional, physical, sexual), stress management, lifestyle change/life coaching and workplace issues (e.g., stress, burnout, harassment). I believe the role of a psychologist is to facilitate the process of coping with and/or overcoming personal concerns and life challenges and assisting in personal growth. I believe strongly in self-determination and encourage increased self-awareness/mindfulness. My approach/philosophy to assisting individuals includes a combination of respect, empathy, support and Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT). CBT assists individuals in recognising and learning to modify the interactions between their beliefs/thoughts, emotions, behaviours and physiological/bodily responses. This approach has been shown to be effective with a wide range of concerns but especially depression, anxiety and anger management.