Client-centred, Responsive, Timely.
A collaborative environment for team players and like-minded clinicians. We believe quality care drives patient outcomes.
How we got Started
Nova Care Occupational Solutions emerged from a vision to unite extensive private practice experience with the provision of only the highest quality health care and customer service. Nova Care aims to offer a mixture of virtual and in-person services to clients in Nova Scotia and across the Atlantic provinces.
Why Occupational Therapy?
At NovaCare, our dedicated Occupational Therapists empower individuals to overcome obstacles limiting their participation in essential activities, enabling them to lead healthy and fulfilling lives.
Specializing in services for adults, we assist clients in achieving functional goals, preventing injuries, and enhancing independence through client-centered, goal-oriented, and evidence-based practices. Our services extend to homes, communities, and workplaces for comprehensive support.
Meet Our Team
Eryn Weldon, OT Reg. (NS)
Meet Our Team
Susanne Richards, BSc.OT, O.T.Reg.(NS), MSc.OT
Susanne grew up in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia and graduated in 2001 with a Bachelor of Science in Occupational Therapy from Dalhousie University. She completed a Post-Professional Masters of Science in Occupational Therapy in 2015.
In her 24 years of clinical practice she has worked in Toronto, Sydney Australia, and Vancouver prior to returning to Nova Scotia with her family in 2022. Susanne has spent her entire career in private practice and has extensive experience working in the Insurance Industry in both Canada and Australia. She has helped clients in home, community, workplace and clinic settings to regain function following workplace injuries, motor vehicle accidents and long term disability claims.
Susanne has worked with clients with acute, chronic and complex physical, cognitive and psychological injuries. She has a wide range of clinical skills including anxiety management, exposure therapy, behavioural activation, cognitive behavioural therapy, pain management, cognitive rehabilitation; and fatigue management for chronic conditions and post cancer treatment. Susanne has experience completing job demands analyses, ergonomic assessments, physical and cognitive functional capacity evaluations.