Lucas Wade
Registered Social Service Worker · Psychotherapist
Executive Director · Founder · OCSWSSW
Lived experience
- Director of Brand and Product Design
Our Team
David R Bell
Creative Director
“Great design can open doors. I believe access changes everything — access to information, to opportunity, and to help. That’s what drives everything I do at Spotlight.”
David R Bell is a designer and brand strategist who believes access changes everything — access to information, to opportunity, and to help. As Product and Brand Design Manager at Psiphon, he works at the intersection of design and digital rights, helping people around the world bypass censorship to reach the open internet.
As Creative Director of Spotlight Recovery, he brings that same conviction to a different kind of barrier — the ones that keep people from finding the mental health and addiction support they need. Guided by a belief that great design can open doors, David partners with Spotlight Recovery founder Lucas Shane Wade to build a brand and platform that makes recovery feel accessible, human, and within reach.
Specialties
- Brand identity
- Product design
- Digital accessibility
- Platform strategy
- Visual storytelling
- Design systems
Want to see how David can help grow your business?
David shapes how Spotlight Recovery looks and reads — the identity, the product design and the accessibility work behind it. If your brand needs the same kind of attention, tell us what you’re working on and we’ll set up a conversation.
Free first conversation · No commitment · No pressure
Meet the team.
Every clinician is registered in their profession, brings lived experience in recovery, or both.
Dr. David Klein
Family Physician & GP Psychotherapist
M.D. · CCFP · CPSO
Tyler Walker
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
CRPO
Jordan Smith
Addiction Counsellor · Recovery Coach
Community Service Work
Lived experience
Frequently Asked Questions
Does David work with clients?
No. David is Creative Director — design and brand, not clinical care.
If you’re looking for support, call 705-715-1168 or use the contact page and you’ll be matched with a counsellor, psychotherapist or coach.
What does a Creative Director do here?
He designs how Spotlight Recovery looks, reads and works — the brand and the platform both — alongside founder Lucas Shane Wade.
The brief is simple to say and hard to do: make recovery feel accessible, human and within reach, rather than clinical and intimidating. Reaching out for help is hard enough without the website making it harder.
What does he do outside Spotlight Recovery?
David is Product and Brand Design Manager at Psiphon, working where design meets digital rights — helping people around the world get past censorship and reach the open internet.
The thread running through both jobs is access. One removes a barrier to information; the other removes a barrier to help.
Something on this site is hard to use. Who do I tell?
Tell us, and it gets fixed. Accessibility is treated as part of the design work rather than something bolted on afterwards.
The Accessibility page has the detail and the ways to reach us, or email info@spotlightrecovery.ca.
Who do I contact about design, brand or media?
Email info@spotlightrecovery.ca or use the contact page — it will reach the right person.