David Cadman

When a child’s struggles start rippling through the whole family — the sleepless parents, the missed school days, the mounting frustration on all sides — that’s usually when families find their way to Dr. David Cadman. A physician based in Burlington, Ontario, he has spent his career focused on children, adolescents, and the young adults who sit on that difficult threshold between the two.

His clinical work centers on assessment and medication treatment for ADHD, mood disorders including depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and related conditions such as Tourette’s syndrome. He understands firsthand how a child who can’t hold a thought long enough to finish a task — whether that’s homework or a conversation — can fall further behind with every passing year, and how early, accurate intervention changes that trajectory. Dr. Cadman has contributed to published research on developmental and psychiatric challenges in young people, and the same conviction that shaped that work shapes his practice: untreated problems carry costs that compound across a lifetime.

He sees children, teenagers, and young adults for individual counseling, and offers online sessions for families who need that flexibility. The goal, in his words, is enabling young people and their families to overcome challenges — and the rewards of that work, he says, are immeasurable.