Nicole Herschenhous

Nicole Herschenhous is a perinatal psychiatrist at the IWK Health Centre and a psychiatrist in private practice. She is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine, and a Lecturer on Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, where she serves as senior faculty for the Cambridge Health Alliance Center for Mindfulness and Compassion.   

She received her medical degree from Brown University in 2007, and then completed her Adult Psychiatry Residency at Cambridge Health Alliance through Harvard Medical School in 2011, and a fellowship in psychosocial oncology and psychosomatic medicine at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Dana Farber Cancer Institute through Harvard Medical School in 2012. In Halifax, she has served as the medical director of the Mental Health Short Stay Unit, a general inpatient psychiatrist, and a Recovery & Integration psychiatrist.   

Dr. Herschenhous has been trained as an MBSR teacher since 2004, and an MBCT teacher since 2010. She is one of the founders and leaders of the Dalhousie Mindfulness in Medicine Program for medical students, and she developed and teaches the mindfulness curriculum for Dalhousie psychiatry residents. She served as the psychotherapy coordinator for the Dalhousie Psychiatry Residency Program from 2016-2022. She received the Dalhousie Psychiatry Educator of the Year award in 2022 for work that featured educational initiatives on mindfulness and compassion, and received a Dalhousie Psychiatry Leadership award in 2023 for her work in education.