Mental Health Resources
HELPLINES
Free and confidential health services information for people experiencing problems with alcohol and drugs, mental health and/or gambling. Available 24/7.
1-866 -531-2600 or www.connexontario.ca
Offers 24/7/365 bilingual support to people in Canada who have concerns about suicide. Phone line available 24/7.
1-833-456-4566 or www.crisisservicescanada.ca/en/
Distress Centres (DC’s) across Ontario offer support and a variety of services to their communities. At a DC you can find a listening ear for lonely, depressed, and/or suicidal people, usually 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The website also offers a chat function.
Ontario’s 24/7 helpline for postsecondary students.
1-866-925-5454 or text GOOD2TALKON to 686868
Youth mental health support available 24/7.
1-800-668-6868 or text CONNECT to 686868
Offers immediate mental health counselling and crisis intervention to all Indigenous peoples across Canada. Phone and chat counselling is available in English, French, Cree, Ojibway and Inuktitut.
1-855-242-3310
Offers support to former residential school students and those affected. Available 24 hours.
1-866-925-4419
Talk4Healing is a culturally grounded, fully confidential helpline, available 24/7 via phone call, text, or live chat, for Indigenous women available in 14 languages all across Ontario.
Phone: 1-855-554-4325
Youth Line offers confidential and non-judgemental peer support through our telephone, text and chat services.
Phone: 647-694-4275 https://www.youthline.ca/ (chat, text and email currently available)
If you’re struggling and need someone to talk to, Focus on the Family offers a one-time free phone consultation with a caring Christian counsellor. Call 1-855-771-HELP (4357), Monday through Friday, 6:00 AM to 8:00 PM (MT). Our staff may need to call you back, but they’d love to speak with you. You can also search our directory for a licensed Christian counsellor in your area via Focus on the Family’s Christian Counselors Network.
Call (905) 503-9561
Here to help phone line is a free counselling service available to children, youth (0-18 yrs), their parents, caregivers and adult supporters.
More information: https://www.yorkhills.ca/
MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES
A free, guided self-help program that’s effective in helping people aged 15 and up who are experiencing mild-to-moderate anxiety or depression, or may be feeling low, stressed, worried, irritable or angry.
Website: https://bouncebackontario.ca/
100 member organizations operating in every region in Ontario, providing treatment and support to children, youth, and families. Free. No referral is required.
Website: cmho.org/findhelp/
1000 Gorham St, Newmarket, ON L3Y 1L8
Click here for directions
Phone: 905-895-8893
The clinical therapy program helps people with serious mental illness to be more successful in day-to-day living. The clinical therapy program provides group-based therapy only. Clients explore the relationship between thoughts, feelings and actions, and with the support of clinical therapists, develop and practice coping skills that help them gain control over unhelpful thinking patterns and avoidance behaviours.
Clinical Therapy – Newmarket – Eagle Street
Newmarket Provincial Courthouse, Room 2088
50 Eagle St W, Newmarket, ON L3Y 6B1
Phone:– 905-841-3977 ext 3321
Family first play therapy offer psychological and educational assessments for children and youth by qualified psychologists. their team of caring professionals provides services for children and their families coping with emotional, attachment, social and behavioural problems.
47 Holland St E, Bradford, ON L3Z 2A4
Phone:905-775-1620
Family life Canada is a division of Power to Change Ministries. It exists to bring help and hope to every marriage and family through training and getaway marriage retreats in Canada.
Website: https://www.familylifecanada.com/
Hong Fook exists to address the mental health concerns of the Cambodian, Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin), Korean and Vietnamese communities. They provide a continuum of integrated primary care and mental health services covering the spectrum from “promoting wellness” to “managing illness” in Asian communities.
Website: https://hongfook.ca/
The Alliance of Hope helps people who have lost loved ones to suicide get through the darkest hours of their lives. They provide online healing support and other services for people who are coping with a devastating loss to suicide through means such as an online forum, support resources and information on the survivor experience.
Website: https://allianceofhope.org/
The Catholic family services team of professional counselling staff helps people resolve problems that challenge their lives. The helping process acknowledges the needs, strengths, values and goals of individuals and families. Their counsellors recognize and sensitively respond to differences in the cultural, racial, gender, and religious backgrounds of clients.
North York
201-245 Fairview Mall Dr, North York, ON M2J 4T1
Phone: 416-222-0048
Central Toronto Office Catholic Pastoral Centre
1155 Yonge St Suite 100, Toronto, ON M4T 1W2
Phone: 416-921-1163
Professional social workers offer supportive counselling and resource navigation to older adults and their caregivers * services include:
- individual counselling
- crisis intervention
- advocacy
- hospice support
- support groups
- caregiver support
- resource and system navigation
- housing support
- financial planning and counselling
- linkages to community, healthcare and primary care services
North Toronto Office
4211 Yonge St, Suite 401, Toronto, ON M2P 2A9
Phone: 416-635-2860 Intake: Ext 2860
Assists individuals, couples and families to cope with stress in their home and work lives, separation, loss or divorce, intimacy issues, family conflict, violence and abuse, and depression.
Individual, Couple and Family Counselling
25202 Warden Ave, Sutton West, ON L0E 1R0
Phone: 905-476-3611
Provides affordable professional counselling to individuals, couples and families experiencing stressful life situations and difficulties in interpersonal relationships.
Individual, Couple and Family Counselling
1091 Gorham St, Unit 300, Newmarket, ON L3Y 8X7
Phone: 905-895-2371
Offers affordable professional counselling to help individuals, couples and families to cope with stress in their home and work lives, separation, loss or divorce, intimacy issues, family conflict, violence and abuse, and depression * offer telephone and online video counselling.
Individual, Couple and Family Counselling
10610 Bayview Ave, Suite 18, Richmond Hill, ON L4C 3N8
Phone: 905-883-6572