Peer Support Groups
Offers a variety of support groups around the province for those with mental illness and mood disorders, their family and friends. Support groups are facilitated by trained volunteers with lived experience of mental health concerns.
The support groups are peer-led and offer a safe place to share stories, struggles and accomplishments, listen to others as they share similar concerns, and receive informal education about mental health challenges.
Mental Health Information and Resources
Provides an online listing of information and resources. Topic areas include early psychosis intervention, schizophrenia, guides for family members, crisis planning, Ulysses Agreement information, aboriginal resources, teacher's manual, and self-management.
Also provides information about available presentations such as the Partnership Education Presentation, ReachOut Psychosis Tour for secondary schools, and Puppet Education Program for school children.
Family Support Groups
Provides an online listing of monthly support group meetings for family members, caregivers, or friends of individuals with psychosis, schizophrenia, or any serious mental illness. Participants come together to support each other, and share experiences, information and coping skills.
Counselling Services
Provides access to free counselling for individuals in Canada by counselling interns, supervised by counselling supervisors. Counselling interns are counselling students who are near the end of their professional training to become fully registered counsellors. Sessions are 45 minutes and available by video or phone call, depending on the counsellors' availability.
Find a Health and Care Professional
Provides an online listing of registered health and care professionals of BC, searchable by any combination of name, registrant number, profession, and or city of practice information. The registrant search includes audiologists, dietitians, hearing instrument practitioners, occupational therapists, opticians, optometrists, physical therapists, psychologists, and speech-language pathologists.
Find a Psychologist
Provides an online listing of registered psychologists in British Columbia searchable by any combination of name, location, gender, area of concern, availability, and language.
