Registered Counselling therapists are mandated by legislation to ensure the public has access to a robust and objective Complaint and Professional Conduct process to investigate complaints against counselling therapists and impose discipline where appropriate. Please take time to review this Infographic with your Registered Counselling Therapist and to work with them to ensure your questions are answered. To file a complaint, simply click to go to the Nova Scotia College of Counselling Therapists (NSCCT).

Download the Complaint Infographic (PDF 274 KB)

As a Registered Counselling Therapist in the Province of Nova Scotia, we are required to follow a Code of Ethics which is published by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA).

Along with our ethical practice, therapists follow practice standards which serve to protect the public. These were developed by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association to provide direction and guidelines to enable its members, and other counsellors and psychotherapists in Canada, and counsellors/therapists-in-training, to conduct themselves in a professional manner consistent with the CCPA Code of Ethics.

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In Nova Scotia, about 60,000 employees and their dependents have access to sessions with a counselling therapist under their workplace benefit plan. All major national insurers recognize RCTs. Many employers’, organizations’, and unions’ benefit plans include private practice RCTs as approved practitioners. 16,000 First Nation band members can access sessions with a counselling therapist under the First Nations and Inuit Health Benefit. You can access my services through Medavie Blue Cross, Manulife, Canada Life, Sunlife (Lumino), Greenshields, First Nations and Inuit Health Benefits, Workman’s Compensation Board, Morneau Shepell Lifeworks, and Compsych. To access services, check with your provider as pre-approval may be necessary prior to starting sessions or if direct billing isn’t available, an official receipt will be issued for you to submit for reimbursement with your provider.

The practice uses Jane which is the clinic software that you will see for booking, helpful reminders, forms, secure connections online as well as payments and charting. As a Canadian company, Jane provides a secure PIPEDA compliance platform which is commonly used by doctors and healthcare providers for comprehensive client care. A client’s records are only stored on Canadian servers and managed or archived in accordance with Canada’s privacy legislation.

The ONLY circumstances which require reporting outside of the client-counselor is:

• is a court subpoenas,
• any reference to child abuse (see link below),
• when a client’s safety is in jeopardy, an intention to harm self; or
• when a client intends to harm someone else.

Nova Scotia Children and Family Services Act   https://novascotia.ca/coms/families/changestoCFSA/index.html

In the event other specialists share information, it must firstly be authorized in writing by you. In order to practice must adhere to strict ethical laws and principles. Links are below.

Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice

https://nscct.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/CodeofEthics_en_new.pdf

https://nscct.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/StandardsOfPractice_en_June2015.pdf

Music Therapy is a creative therapy using music and music experiences by a credentialed professional (MTA) to create a therapeutic relationship to support mental health and development. In safe and ethical practice, music therapists restore, maintain and improve the wellbeing in cognitive, communicative, physical, social, emotional, spiritual and musical domains. Music is part of all human beings connection to memories, experiences and through our inner rhythms of our own bodies. A session might include guided listening, music for relaxation, songwriting or improvisation.

“Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything.” – Plato

Anyone can participate in music therapy. The process of making music is important, and each experience is unique and designed for the needs and experience as well as the style preference. Experimenting with instruments, writing raps, moving and singing with music are all ways to have a shared experience.