Bounce Back
For all of Ontario

• Free

• For people aged 15+

• Skill-building program to help manage low mood, mild-to-moderate depression and anxiety, stress, and worry

• Delivered over the phone with a coach and through online videos

Counselling Connect
Ottawa

• Free

• For anyone in Ottawa and surrounding area: children, youth, adults, and families

• Provides quick access to free short-term counselling (2-3 sessions)

• Available in English and French

Hawkesbury and District General Hospital: Mental Health and Addiction Regional Centre
Hawkesbury, Casselman, Clarence-Rockland

• Provides community mental health and addiction services

Health Sciences North – Counselling and Treatment Services
Sudbury

• For people aged 16+

• Treats depression, bipolar disorder, social anxiety, generalized anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder, borderline personality disorder

• Uses evidence-based structured approaches that include cognitive behavioural therapy, mindfulness, and dialectical behavioural therapy

Homewood Health – Integrated Mood and Anxiety Program
Guelph

• For people aged 18+

• Group-based treatment program that explores self–esteem, communications, anger, leisure and lifestyle balance, relationships, managing anxiety, emotion regulation, and loss and grief

• Requires a referral from a doctor and a primary diagnosis of depression, anxiety disorders, and/or bipolar disorder

Niagara Region Mental Health Services
Niagara Region

• Offers assertive community treatment team (age 16+), case management (age 16+), early intervention in psychosis (14 to 35 years of age), youth mental health and addiction service (16 to 25 years of age), telemedicine (age 16+), geriatric case management

OCD and Anxiety Clinic of Ontario
Vaughan

• Offers services to adolescents and adults five days a week

• Private outpatient program that uses cognitive behavioural therapy, exposure therapy, mindfulness, and acceptance and commitment therapy

• Treats OCD and other anxiety-related disorders

Ontario Structured Psychotherapy (OSP) Program at The Royal
Ottawa

• Offers evidence-based cognitive behavioural therapy to teach practical skills and strategies to manage mental health issues

• A therapist will work with the client for approximately 12 sessions

• Requires a referral from a physician or nurse practitioner

Pay What You Can Peer Support
Online

• Virtual support groups that support about 25 different types of issues, including a specific one for anxiety and stress

• Sessions run weekly and can be booked online

• Sessions are moderated by professionals

• Sessions can be paid for by a donation of however much the person can afford

St. Joseph’s Health Care Anxiety Treatment and Research Clinic
Hamilton

• Provides evaluations and treatment for anxiety-related conditions

• Offers medications as well as psychological treatments

• Requires a referral from a physician

Sault Area Hospital Mental Health and Addictions Services
Sault Ste. Marie

• Offers in-patient psychiatric units, psychiatric out-patient clinic, psychiatric orphan patient clinic, psychology services, psychiatric outpatient medication clinic, psychiatry offices

Togetherall
Online

• Free

• Clinically managed online forums designed to create a community to discuss mental health issues

• Wide range of self-guided group and individual courses covering mental health and lifestyle topics

• Library of useful articles and resources, plus helpful tests and features to track progress