FREE COUNSELLING SOCIETY CANADA
ABOUT US
Struggling to find free counselling due to long waitlists?
Free Counselling Society Canada FCSC is a registered not-for-profit entirely-volunteer-run society S0078330, founded by a small team of experienced Psychotherapists, Counsellors and Clinical Supervisors in Toronto Ontario and Vancouver BC, Canada. It was created during the mental health crisis when many hospital mental health counselling waitlists exceeded 3 months, 6 months, 9 months and sometimes beyond 1 year.
Our Society is 100% Volunteer-run, NO paid staff, NO funding from the government and funded by private donations. Our Society is a referral network and does NOT host any volunteer counsellors. All volunteer counsellors are external volunteers and MUST meet and practice under their provinces/territories' profession rules and regulations regarding counselling and psychotherapy (see CCPA more info), and (if applicable: rules and regulations of their Universities and Practicum Sites).
Our goal is to connect Clients located in Ontario, BC and Canada-wide with 12 sessions and more free-of-charge (video call or phone call) individual, couple and family counselling with minimal waitlist.
We are open to ALL Canadians of ALL backgrounds, beyond the dis-advantaged or non dis-advantaged criteria.
Services in multiple languages: English, Arabic, Cantonese, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Mandarin, Persian, Portugese, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Urdu, Vietnamese and more.
Step 1/2:
If you want to seek help for free-of-charge counselling, please call, text or email us: (647) 490-2992; (778) 200-7823.
You can also fill out our Online Intake Form to speed up the process.
Step 2/2:
If considered suitable, our Intake Supervisors will contact you directly (within 7 days) to assess your concerns and assign suitable counsellors.
Psychotherapy and Counselling is provided by Volunteer Counsellors or Referral Affiliate Student Counsellors who are professionally supervised and near the end of their journey to being accredited. Our counsellors are committed to providing 12 sessions and more free counselling to each client.
HOW IT WORKS?
Clients:
Step 1/2:
If you want to seek help for free-of-charge counselling, please call, email or text us.
You can also fill out our Online Intake Form to speed up the process.
Step 2/2:
If considered suitable, our Intake Supervisors will contact you directly (within 7 days) to assess your concerns and assign suitable counsellors.
Counselling sessions are 45min (video call or phone call). Our counsellors are committed to providing 12 sessions and more free counselling to each client.
Services in multiple languages: English, Arabic, Cantonese, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Mandarin, Persian, Portugese, Punjabi, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, Urdu, Vietnamese and more.
Psychotherapy and Counselling is provided by Volunteer Counsellors or Referral Affiliate Student Counsellors who are professionally supervised and near the end of their journey to being accredited. Our counsellors are committed to providing 12 sessions and more free counselling to each client.
If the level or intensity of your concerns exceed our volunteer's counselling level, we will recommend other more experienced (probono and paid) counsellors in the larger community (depending on availability).
We DO NOT provide crisis nor emergency services. We CANNOT support clients with active psychosis. Please call 911 for crisis or emergency.
Counselling Interns:
Need more counselling hours for your clinical practice, practicum and certifications, and want to support your community? Apply as Volunteer Counsellors or Referral Affiliate Student Counsellors! Volunteers MUST meet and practice under their provinces/territories' profession rules and regulations regarding counselling and psychotherapy (see CCPA more info), and (if applicable: rules and regulations of their Universities and Practicum Sites).
Experienced Counsellors:
Consider volunteering 1 hour a week of your time for pro-bono counselling and support your community!
Disclaimer:
Our initiative is volunteer-run in a pro bono nature and doesn’t have any in-house staffing. Volunteer or Student Psychotherapists and Counsellors sign up pro bono voluntarily. Donations are welcome and needed to pay for ongoing admin costs of our not-for-profit society.
“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them”
Albert Einstein
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