PRESQUE ISLE — Care & Comfort has announced that Patricia Canavan, a licensed clinical social worker (LCSW), has joined their behavioral health division. She works with children, adults, couples and families using strength-based, solution-focused, EBT and motivational therapies.
Prior to joining C & C, Canavan served as an LCSW at Aroostook Mental Health Center and The Aroostook Medical Center, providing crisis and emergency services, outpatient therapy and inpatient group therapy. She is the former owner of and outpatient therapist at CAPS.
“We are thrilled to have Pat as part of our team,” said Destini Bates, branch manager for Care & Comfort. “Her years of experience and expertise enable her to provide our clients and their families excellent treatment and peace of mind. She is a marvelous addition to our behavioral health program.”
Canavan earned her bachelor’s of social work from the University of Maine at Presque Isle, where she graduated cum laude, and her master of social work from the University of New England in Biddeford.
An Aroostook County native, she is very active in her community, including as a member of the Fort Fairfield Rotary Club and is an adjunct faculty member and field supervisor for the University of New England.
Shelby Wilcox has also joined the organization as an HCT/outpatient clinician. Her fields of expertise are art therapy and intermodal expressive therapy which use alternative forms of communications to assist individuals of all ages express themselves in a way they may not be able to with words.
Wilcox comes to Care & Comfort with several years of experience in the mental health field, most recently as a family therapist. She has worked in day treatment and residential facilities with children, adults and families and is currently an art group facilitator at Wintergreen Art Center. She received her bachelor of fine arts from UMPI and her master of art and expressive therapy from Lesley University located in Cambridge, Mass.
“We are so pleased Shelby has joined our growing team of professionals. Her experience enables us to expand our behavioral health programs by offering new types of therapies which is part of our vision to better serve Aroostook County,” said Bates.
An Aroostook County native, Wilcox is passionate about the arts and an active promoter of them as well as many other events through the “Aroostook Common,” of which she is owner and chief editor.
