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.
BC Bereavement Helpline
Provides a confidential telephone helpline to connect individuals with grief support services in BC. Trained volunteers provide emotional support, and information on bereavement support groups, agencies, peer-based support, and community events.
Suicide Grief Support
Offers a support group for individuals who have lost a loved one to suicide. Trained facilitators provide a safe, non-judgemental, compassionate environment where participants can share experiences, learn grief and mourning tools, and receive community connections, practical information and support. Provided in partnership with the BC Crisis Centre.
Bereaved Parent Support Group
Provides an online listing of support groups available throughout BC for families who have experienced the death of a child at any age, from any cause. Parents and their surviving children are supported through friendship, understanding, and grief education.
Rainbows Child Support Groups
Provides online information about support groups available in the community for children who have experienced a significant loss in their lives, either by death, separation, divorce, or any other painful transition.
Children have the opportunity to meet new friends who have shared similar experiences, learn to sort through and understand their grief, and come to a healthy acceptance of what has happened to their family.
Kaleidoscope
Provides information on group support programs available in the community for adults who have experienced recent or childhood loss in their lives either by death, divorce or any other painful transition.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Skills Groups
Offers a variety of virtual and in-person mental health skills training groups for adults and their caregivers with mild to moderate anxiety, depression, insomnia, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The groups teach practical tools to recognize, understand and manage patterns of feeling, thinking, and behaving for daily life to better manage stress and symptoms.
Groups are facilitated by trained physicians who uses strategies based on cognitive behavioural therapy such as mindfulness, emotion regulation and acceptance and commitment therapy.
Raising Resilient Kids Parenting Program
Offers a group-based program to help parents and caregivers to develop mindful parenting skills and strengthen caregiver-child relationships during early childhood. Topics include child development, mindfulness, attachment, and reflective parenting. The group is facilitated by trained physicians.