Mind Medicine
Offers a free 7-week group-based mental wellness program for Indigenous young adults experiencing anxiety and stress. Participants learn healthy coping skills, connect with other Indigenous young people in the community, receive culturally appropriate support, and engage in physical activities as part of their mental wellness plan. Provided through local Indigenous organizations and may be available in person or online.
Y Mind Adult
Offers a free online support group for adults who experience stress and mild to moderate anxiety. Participants come together to learn healthy coping skills and connect with others who are experiencing similar thoughts and feelings.
Health Support Worker Program
Provides safe, confidential, respectful, and non-judgmental information for former Indian Residential School students and their families before, during, and after their participation in Settlement Agreement processes.
Services include emotional support through the hearing process, help with preparing for claim hearings, and community-based educational seminars and workshops.
413 W Esplanade, North Vancouver, BC
Counselling
Provides individual, family and group counselling, circles and crisis support to Residential School Survivors, their families, and those dealing with intergenerational traumas.
The counselling team supports emotional, mental, and spiritual development, along with healing and recovery, through culturally-based values and guiding principles.
413 W Esplanade, North Vancouver, BC
24-Hour Crisis Line - Indigenous
Offers residential school survivors, students and intergenerational survivors, their family members, and the community at large a 24-hour crisis line for immediate emotional support, information, and referrals. Referrals include access to crisis counselling, elder support, cultural workshop, grief and loss support, and help with filing missing persons reports.
Community Helpline
Provides culturally-safe phone support in multiple languages to individuals and families in BC experiencing crisis or distress. Trained volunteers and staff provide non-judgmental emotional support, information and referrals. Case management services are also available.
Mental Health Information
Provides online mental health information and resources for specific mental illnesses, treatment and recovery, alcohol and drug use, and coping with mental health crises and emergencies.
Group Therapy
Offers a variety of medical treatment options to help individuals coping with depression, anxiety, trauma, and other mental health difficulties. Treatment options include psychodynamic group therapy, dialectical behavior treatment skills group, and narrative therapy. During group sessions, participants meet with others who may be going through similar challenges in their mental health journey and recovery. Group sessions are provided online.
Wellness and Therapeutic Exercise
Offers group therapeutic wellness programs to help people living with a mood disorder, manage and work through difficult emotions such as anxiety, low mood, stress, and depression. Groups include physical activity and exercise, mindful movement for mood, and yoga therapy. Programs are provided online.
Interpersonal Therapy
Offers individual and group therapy for people with depression and who have, or are, experiencing struggles with a very personal relationship that leads to feelings of frustration, loneliness and despair. Participants will have two individual sessions and then meet with others for online group sessions. A group is also available for new mothers experiencing perinatal depression to help them with relationship issues and challenges in motherhood.