We are excited to announce a collaboration between Anxiety Canada and TELUS Health MyCare™ that provides comprehensive and accessible mental health support to individuals across Canada.
Get Help NowJan Stewart is a well-known mental health and neurodiversity advocate, author, speaker and parent who connected with Anxiety Canada through her membership on the International OCD Foundation (IOCDF) Canada task force.
Her award-winning book, Hold on Tight: A Parent’s Journey Raising Children with Mental Illness, describes her emotional roller coaster story parenting two children with severe anxiety, OCD and multiple co-occurring conditions and inspires and empowers readers to persevere, have hope and know they are not alone.
Jan was previously Vice Chair at Canada’s leading psychiatric hospital CAMH and served on the Parent Advisory Board at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Department of Neuropsychopharmacology.
She currently chairs the Board at Kerry’s Place Autism Services, Canada’s largest autism services provider, has presented at multiple conferences and corporate events, and is a Today’s Parent columnist on mental health and neurodiversity.