{"id":142201,"date":"2023-02-24T15:46:59","date_gmt":"2023-02-24T20:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/?p=142201"},"modified":"2023-02-24T15:46:59","modified_gmt":"2023-02-24T20:46:59","slug":"province-announces-new-supportive-counselling-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/province-announces-new-supportive-counselling-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Province announces new supportive counselling program"},"content":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, Brian Comer, minister responsible for the Office of Addictions and Mental Health, announced a new supportive counseling program for all Nova Scotians. Through the province's new Access Wellness service, community members can access to one-on-one supportive counseling to help with general mental health concerns.<\/p>\n

The program aims to give an opportunity to community members to book a free session of individual, couple or family counseling with trained mental health counselors.<\/p>\n

\"This program provides access to one on one support counseling now with registered counseling therapists and clinical therapists. It'd be used for a variety of issues, general mental health concerns, you know, anxiety, could be job loss, grief, and substance use concerns,\" said Comer.<\/p>\n

As of Mon. Feb. 22, community members can book one free session of individual, couple or family counseling with trained mental health counselors through the Province\u2019s new Access Wellness service.<\/p>\n

The Access Wellness service's counseling sessions can be done by phone, online or in person in Sydney, Halifax, Kentville and New Glasgow.<\/p>\n

The Province is spending $2.3 million<\/a> per year for the new service.<\/p>\n

Listen to the full interview below:<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Earlier this week, Brian Comer, minister responsible for the Office of Addictions and Mental Health, announced a new supportive counseling program for all Nova Scotians. Through the province’s new Access Wellness service, community members can access to one-on-one supportive counseling to help with general mental health concerns. The program aims to give an opportunity to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":142208,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[57,223],"tags":[23780,23776,21841,20815,23786,3495,7041,23777,17011,23787,435,23781,23782,23783,22525,23784,23779,23778,23785],"radio":[13058],"origine":[274,300,278],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142201"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142201"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142271,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142201\/revisions\/142271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142201"},{"taxonomy":"radio","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/radio?post=142201"},{"taxonomy":"origine","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canada-info.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/origine?post=142201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}