Discover What Fills Your Cup
If you’ve ever felt anxious about booking or attending medical appointments, you’re not alone.
For some, anxiety surrounding healthcare is the result of a fear of pain. For others, the fear can be rooted in potential embarrassment experienced during the visit due to social or economic barriers to healthcare.
Cheryl Lyons (BScN, MN, NP) runs her clinic with patient mental health and comfortability as the top priority.
At Radiant Health Solutions, all patients are met with kindness, Lyons making you feel truly cared for. “I want my patients to feel seen, and heard,” she said.
Radiant Health Solutions offers non-surgical medical aesthetics and holistic treatments that focus on natural results.
Having worked in hospitals, Lyons understands the value and importance of being seen by a medical professional who listens to your concerns and keeps your overall health in mind, always.
At Radiant Health Solutions, a full health history is completed before any aesthetic procedures. “Getting to the route of their healing,” Lyons explained.
She has an extensive career in healthcare, working as an RN in plastic surgery, acute care oncology, and as a nurse practitioner with the medical assistant in dying team, working in burns and plastics in Halifax before opening her clinic in Westville last May.
“I was feeling burnt out in healthcare,” she said. “As my clinic continues, I want to help train other nurses to create a better work/life balance.”
The healthcare provider, originally from Cole Harbour, has worked towards her medical achievements over the years, saying she’s grateful to the mentors she’s had and the experiences that have set her on the path to the practice she owns today.
After deciding to move away from a position within a traditional hospital setting, Lyons spent time learning from the most sought-after injectors in Toronto and continues developing her learning of aesthetics with renowned aesthetic injectors and skincare medical professionals from all over the world on a weekly basis.
From Neurotoxin treatments for facial relaxation, Botox, facial balancing and contouring, smile adjustments, and hair restoration to chronic muscle pain treatment and transitioning assistance: facial feminization/masculinization and more, everything offered at Radiant Health Solutions has the same goal: boosting confidence. “That’s the only thing I really care about,” said Lyons. “I always tell them how beautiful they are … it’s not about ‘I don’t like who I am.’ It’s about ‘I like myself so much, I want to take care of myself.’”
“It’s really hard for anyone, especially moms, to spend anything on themselves. But when you fill your own cup, you can fill others,” she said.
Lyons’ hope is to positively impact the mental health of her clients while also providing them with the confidence boosts they desire. Seeing the change in self-confidence in her patients is a phenomenal feeling for Lyons.
She described Pictou County as an innovation hub, and a place that makes doing business worth it. “I love it here,” she said. “There are some amazing supports here for local business.”
All patients at Radiant Health Solutions receive checkups past their procedures, ensuring they’re cared for every step of the way.
“It’s very important for me to empower women,” she said. “(Mental health) is my why. It’s what pushes me.”
Like Lyons said, you can love the rest of the world after you fill your own cup.
Most recently, Lyons has closed her Dartmouth practice and has moved her previous Westville Road practice to a 5-room medical facility on East River Road. At the new facility, Lyons continues her work to bridge the gaps in Pictou County Healthcare by having specialized nurse practitioners working part-time to deliver services such as drivers medicals, blood work monitoring, advanced physical assessment, and chronic joint pain management. Radiant Health Solutions is continuously working hard to expand their offered services, hoping to alleviate the pressure other walk-in clinics and emergency departments are facing.
