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Dr. Douglas Scoular, C.Psych.

Dr. Scoular has been a psychologist since 2006. He has expertise in the assessment and treatment of adults, adolescents, children, parents, and families experiencing psychological problems, within his areas of psychological competency. Dr. Scoular has provided psychological services to a diversity of clients within the community, among that diversity are clients who are health care professionals, those in military service, police officers, fire fighters, and military service veterans.

 

Dr. Scoular believes in collaboratively forming therapeutic goals utilizing the latest empirical psychological research. He helps his clients to progress to and to realize their psychological therapeutic goals using Cognitive Behavioural or Interpersonal therapies, as well as employing other well-researched therapeutic modalities. Dr. Scoular closely monitors client progress using psychological questionnaires and/or client feedback. His interpersonal approach is highly engaging and interactive, providing a calm, positive, and professional therapeutic presence. 

 

Dr. Scoular completed his masters and doctoral degrees at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He was the recipient of national research awards from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and Canadian Institutes of Health Research. He has worked and trained in a variety of clinical settings including community mental health clinics, forensic, and hospital settings such as the UBC Hospital, the BC Children’s Hospital and The Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario. He has been a Clinical Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of Ottawa, where he has provided psychological assessment and treatment lectures to medical students. 

 

Dr. Scoular has presented often to the community on topics such as addiction and harm reduction, anxiety, attachment, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, aggression, depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, stress, and Tourette syndrome. He has been a keynote speaker for a presentation on anxiety disorders, and he has presented at a national conference on Tourette Syndrome. Dr. Scoular has been identified as an expert witness within the Ontario judicial system.


Psychologist Expertise

Dr. Scoular assesses and treats clients who are struggling with the following:

Adult Children of Alcoholics

04 Aug, 2022
Alcoholism is addiction, involving a dependency on a substance. Addictions, including alcoholism involve compulsive, self-defeating behaviour that continues in spite of negative consequences. Stopping the behaviour results in extreme physical and mental discomfort, which tends to contribute to people returning to their addiction. Many psychologists are experts in helping people recover from their addictions and live successful and more comfortable lives.

Addictions

02 Aug, 2022
An addiction refers to having a dependency on a substance or a process. An example of a substance dependency is alcoholism. Examples of process addictions include having a gambling or an Internet addiction. Addictions involve compulsive, self-defeating behaviour that continues in spite of negative consequences. Stopping the behaviour results in extreme physical and mental discomfort, which tends to contribute to people returning to their addiction. Many psychologists are experts in helping people recover from their addictions and live successful and more comfortable lives.

Anger Management

31 Jul, 2022
While everyone gets angry from time to time, some people have rage reactions or explosive outbursts which emotionally or even physically hurt other people in their surroundings. Even the intense direct expression of anger can be problematic if people do not control where and when they express anger. These days, tolerance for intense, angry behaviour is low, even if expressed only in words. Angry outbursts can be considered abusive and can result in reprimands in the work place or fines and charges in public places.
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Anxiety

29 Jul, 2022
Anxiety has been frequently described as feelings of fright, flight or freeze. This means that people experiencing anxiety have both the mental and the physical, visceral feelings of wanting to escape the situation, fight what is challenging or simply cannot move in any direction to deal with what is troubling them.

Assessments

27 Jul, 2022
Psychological Assessments are used by psychologists to help determine a diagnosis and inform the course of treatment. There are many different components to these assessments such as different tests, interviews, school and medical records, medical information, and observation.

Behavioural Problems

25 Jul, 2022
Children present with behavioural problems for a variety of reasons. In some cases, children’s behaviour problems are caused by the child’s temperament or by biologically based conditions such as Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder. In other cases, the child is reacting to stressors or changes in the environment. Some examples would be parental separation and divorce or loss of a parent. Psychologists can help parents to understand the causes of their child’s behaviour and can then advise how to best deal with their child’s problems. Psychologists may offer individual therapy for the child if appropriate or may consult with the parents regarding strategies they can employ to deal with their child’s behaviour more effectively.

Co-Dependency Issues

15 Jul, 2022
Codependency is an emotional and behavioural condition that leads to imbalanced relationships. In codependent relationships, there is often one individual enabling another’s self-destructive behaviour, such as substance abuse, poor mental health and coping skills, immaturity, and under-achievement. Codependency can lead to individuals staying in unhealthy or abusive relationships because they feel as though they cannot live without the other person.
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Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

13 Jul, 2022
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is a form of talk therapy that focuses on reframing harmful or painful thoughts and behaviours. This form of therapy is often used to treat anxiety and depression but can be helpful with many different mental and physical challenges.
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Depression

03 Jul, 2022
Depression is a state of low mood in which people feel helpless, hopeless, worthless, lethargic and unable to enjoy the things that used to give them pleasure. People who are depressed are often irritable or pessimistic. Their low mood goes beyond having “the blues” or being sad. Even people who are grieving usually do not sink into depression. People diagnosed with a Major Depressive Disorder cannot just “pull up their socks” to get better. They require professional help. Psychologists use a variety of scientifically based psychotherapeutic approaches to help people recover from depression.
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Health, Migraines & Chronic Illness

15 Jun, 2022
Chronic pain and mental health disorders often occur together. In fact, research suggests that chronic pain and mental health problems can contribute to and exacerbate each other.

Mindfulness

28 May, 2022
Mindfulness is the ability to be aware of present thoughts, emotions, physical sensations and the surrounding environment and label them from an objective viewpoint, without judgment.
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Pain Therapy

22 May, 2022
Many different factors can effect a person’s experience of pain. Pain therapy by a psychologist involves discovering and adjusting such factors. The issues that make the experience of pain more intense include environment stresses, difficult relationships and individual factors, such as anxious thinking, inaccurate beliefs, having few skills to handle stress, and negative health habits. Psychologists also help people understand how their pain impacts the various parts of their life, and helps them cope with their pain in useful ways to reduce how much the pain interferes with their quality of life.

Parenting Issues

20 May, 2022
Children are affected by parental separation and divorce in different ways. Research has indicated that children react in different ways at different ages and that other factors than parental separation alone influence the degree to which a child’s adjustment can be affected by parental separation and divorce.

Posttraumatic Stress Disorder

16 May, 2022
Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is an anxiety disorder that can follow the experiencing or witnessing of a severe trauma involving the actual or threat of death or serious injury to the self or others. The traumatized person has typically reacted to the trauma with intense fear, helplessness or horror. Alternatively, an accumulation of less intensely damaging situations (‘small ‘t’ traumas’) can over time also lead to PTSD.
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Stress Management

24 Apr, 2022
It is important to look at the effect or impact that stress and anxiety has on your work and home life. A professional therapist – psychologist, psychiatrist, social worker or counsellor can assist in the stress management process.

Contact

Dr. Douglas Scoular can be reached at 613-230-4709 ext. 148 or directly at 613-286-1579. Please be prepared to leave a detailed message.


His office is located at 440 Laurier Avenue West, Suite 200.


Dr. Scoular’s office location offers full mobility access for the benefit for those who have reduced mobility needs. His office location includes ramps, elevators, and accessible washrooms.

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