Alison Sanford Thomas, MSW, RSW

Offers Virtual appointments only
  • Social Worker
  • Woman
  • Rated 5 out of 5 stars. 2 ratings.
Accepting new patients

Provider information

Description

Alison is a Registered Social Worker and Psychotherapist practicing in Nova Scotia and Ontario. With a client-centered, collaborative approach, she creates a welcoming space where clients feel heard and supported. Her personal experience with postpartum depression during the pandemic fuels her passion for maternal mental health. Alison offers support for perinatal and reproductive trauma, depression, anxiety, life transitions, and parenting challenges, helping clients build confidence, connection, and self-compassion during the journey to and through parenthood.

Conditions

  • Adoption
  • Anxiety
  • Body Image
  • Communication
  • Depression
  • Divorce
  • Emotional Abuse
  • Family planning
  • Grief, loss, bereavement
  • Infertility or Adoption
  • Parenting
  • Postpartum depression
  • Post-traumatic stress Disorder (PTSD)
  • Pregnancy, Prenatal, Postpartum
  • Self Esteem
  • Social Anxiety Disorder
  • Trauma
  • Women's Issues

Provider's hours

Sunday
By appointment only
Monday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Saturday
By appointment only

Services

  • Career counseling
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Compassion-focused therapy
  • Emotionally focused therapy
  • Exposure and response prevention
  • Family systems therapy
  • Feminist therapy
  • Interpersonal psychotherapy
  • Narrative therapy
  • Person-centered therapy
  • Positive psychology
  • Relational therapy
  • Solution-focused brief therapy
  • Somatic therapy
  • Strength-based therapy
  • Therapeutic intervention

Clientele

  • Adults (18+)​

Languages spoken

  • English

Professional designations

  • Master of Social Work (MSW)
  • Registered Social Worker (RSW)

Education

  • Master of Social Work

Professional associations

  • Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers

Summary

We are a team of social workers and psychotherapists working in a fully virtual clinic seeing women, men and couples in Canada.  While we see numerous presenting issues, we specialize in working with the perinatal period- infertility, grief, loss, pregnancy, birth trauma, postpartum transition and issues and providing parenting support.  We have training in in maternal, paternal and perinatal mental health and wellbeing.  We are currently accepting clients, have evening and limited weekend availability.  We also run postpartum, infertility and parenting support groups.

Business hours

Sunday
By appointment only
Monday
8:00 am - 8:00 pm
Tuesday
8:00 am - 8:00 pm
Wednesday
8:00 am - 8:00 pm
Thursday
8:00 am - 8:00 pm
Friday
8:00 am - 8:00 pm
Saturday
9:00 am - 1:00 pm

Services & supplies

  • Acceptance and commitment therapy
  • Attachment-based therapy
  • Career counseling
  • Christian counseling
  • Coaching
  • Cognitive behavioral therapy
  • Cognitive processing therapy
  • Compassion-focused therapy
  • Culturally sensitive therapy
  • Dialectical behavior therapy
  • Eclectic therapy
  • Emotionally focused therapy
  • Experiential therapy
  • Exposure and response prevention
  • Exposure Therapy
  • Family counselling
  • Family systems therapy
  • Feminist therapy
  • Forgiveness therapy
  • Humanistic therapy
  • Integrative therapy
  • Interpersonal psychotherapy
  • Life Coaching
  • Marital counselling
  • Marriage and family therapy
  • Mental health reactivation
  • Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy
  • Motivational interviewing
  • Multicultural therapy
  • Narrative therapy
  • Person-centered therapy
  • Positive psychology
  • Psychodynamic therapy
  • Relational therapy
  • Relationship counselling
  • Solution-focused brief therapy
  • Somatic therapy
  • Strength-based therapy
  • Structural family therapy
  • Teen mental health
  • The Gottman method
  • Therapeutic intervention
  • Transpersonal therapy
  • Trauma-focused cognitive behavior therapy

Provider's hours

Sunday
By appointment only
Monday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Tuesday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Wednesday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Thursday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Friday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Saturday
By appointment only

Business hours

Sunday
By appointment only
Monday
8:00 am - 8:00 pm
Tuesday
8:00 am - 8:00 pm
Wednesday
8:00 am - 8:00 pm
Thursday
8:00 am - 8:00 pm
Friday
8:00 am - 8:00 pm
Saturday
9:00 am - 1:00 pm