Brightside Integrated Health

09/10/2026

Our clinic just got an infusion of cuteness, with adorable handmade polymer clay earrings and key rings, from Clay by Day!

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09/09/2026

Just a wholesome PSA that it's technically still summer!
Soak up as much as you can! 🌞🌊🐕

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09/03/2026

Brightside proudly offers counselling for children, teens, young adults, and families. We support clients navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, school stress, peer relationships, grief, and emotional regulation challenges.

For children, early intervention through therapy can interrupt negative patterns, helping them to develop healthy coping mechanisms and to build confidence. This reduces the risk of mental health disorders in the future, and promotes lifelong well-being. Brightside therapists provide a safe space for children to communicate their thoughts, fears, and aspirations. We meet our young clients where they are, and incorporate developmentally appropriate play, creativity, and even nature, to foster connection.

Wondering which therapist may be the best fit for you, your child, or your family? Contact us today!

☎️ 902-444-1015
📧 [email protected]
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09/03/2026

A balanced diet supports growth, brain development, energy, sleep, immune function, and school readiness. Children who regularly skip meals, or have unpredictable eating patterns may show more irritability, headaches, fatigue, concentration problems, and emotional volatility. Addressing your child's basic nutritional needs can support their mental health and also allows therapy to be more effective.
Check out Lauren's tips for packing a healthy school (or work) lunch!

08/25/2026

Three record suspension application packages completed and ready to go!

Do you have an old criminal record that weighs on your mind and doesn't represent the person you are today?

Reach out to Lauren Brady, to see if you might be eligible for a record suspension, and learn about how it could benefit you!

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08/18/2026

If you've been in our clinic lately, you might have noticed that we are carrying some crystals, including palm stones - also called meditation stones! What is this new age, hippie stuff you ask?
Actually, it's neuroscience!🤓

Holding a smooth, cool stone activates grounding mechanisms that clinicians actually use in therapeutic settings. Anxiety pulls you out of your body and into a loop of imagined future catastrophes and reaching for a stone gives your sensory cortex something concrete to process and interrupts that loop by pulling your nervous system back into the present moment.

Slow, deliberate touch signals safety. There’s also the matter of focus. When you examine a rock closely, its striations, its colour variations, the way light catches a crystalline edge, you’re practicing a form of mindfulness, even if you don't realize it at the time.

You can use this technique in your therapy appointment, but it's also portable! When you reach for the crystal in your pocket repeatedly in moments of stress, you’re training a behavioural loop: stress arrives, hand goes to pocket, fingers work the stone, nervous system begins to downregulate. Over time, the stone itself becomes a cue for calm.

Plus - they're pretty!✨

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08/15/2026

Are you an experienced counselling therapist looking for a new home for your private practice?
Do you lean toward a mind-body approach to mental health and have a passion for the work that you do?
Then we would love to meet you!🌞

Brightside Integrated Health is an established counselling and wellness clinic, located on Baker Drive in Dartmouth - centrally located with plenty of free parking!🚗

Our clinic is relaxed and comfortable, and our team of practitioners and admin professionals are simply the best. Our goal is to provide quality service and an elevated experience for our clients, as well as a supportive working environment for therapists.✨

If this sounds good to you, please reach out to our clinic manager, Lauren at [email protected].
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08/13/2026

You Need a Massage 💆🏻‍♀️

Now is a great time to get in some self-care, before the busyness and new schedules start in September. 📚✏

Relax, let Sydney work out the knots and feel your stress and tension melt away! ✨

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08/11/2026

We have enjoyed this group so much!☺️

Congratulations to our current cohort of counselling interns, who have wrapped up their practicums! We want to thank Emma Beaudoin, Elisse Angelo, MACP - Counselling Intern, Crystal George and Ruth Shelton for being such an awesome team and for their hard work and dedication to our clients. We wish you all the success in your respective future practices and we have no doubt that you will be excellent counselling therapists!

Want to check out our new oncoming cohort?
Their profiles are up!
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To be placed on our waiting list, call us at 902-444-0557 or email at [email protected].

08/10/2026

Do you have a dated criminal record that has been standing in the way of you achieving your goals?

You may be eligible for a record suspension - formerly called a pardon.

A record suspension has the effect of removing a person's criminal record from the Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC) database. This means that a search of CPIC will not show that the individual has a criminal record or a record suspension. This not only removes a barrier to accessing employment and educational opportunities, but may provide psychological relief and the closing of a chapter that no longer reflects who you are.

Lauren Brady has been supporting clients through the record suspension application process for the past three and a half years and is pleased to being this service to Brightside.

The process entails assessing eligibility, explaining the steps and associated fees, guiding you through each step of the process, answering questions, troubleshooting complications that may arise, assisting with completing paperwork and documentation - and ensuring that your record suspension application package is complete, accurate, and ready for submission to the Parole Board of Canada for review.

For more information about record suspensions, or to book an appointment with Lauren, please reach out!

Call: 902-444-1015
Email: [email protected]
Book Online: brightsideintegratedhealth.janeapp.com/ #/record-suspension-support

Brightside Integrated Health is a multi-disciplinary mental health and wellness clinic, located in Dartmouth, NS. Our dedicated team of practitioners provide counselling therapy, massage therapy, acupuncture and nutritional counselling.