The practical information, in one place.

The single most common unpleasant surprise in private therapy is discovering afterwards that your plan does not list your counsellor's designation.

British Columbians are used to health care being covered. Mental health is the place where that assumption breaks.

Private therapy is one option among many, and for a lot of people it should not be the first one tried.

Keep this one somewhere findable. The time to look it up is not the time you need it.

Students have more free support available than almost any other group in the province, and consistently under-use it because nobody explains what it covers.

Most people discover how any of this works at the exact moment they are least able to research it. This is the map, in advance.

This takes about four minutes and almost nobody does it. It is the single most useful piece of due diligence available to you.

Counselling cannot diagnose, cannot prescribe, and cannot assess. Here is what to do when one of those is what you actually need.

Three letters after a counsellor’s name, doing more work than they look like — in a province where, for now, anyone at all may call themselves a counsellor.

A stress leave says "I am unwell and need time." A WorkSafeBC claim says something stronger: "work injured me." Different systems, different tests, and mixing them up costs people months.

Mental-health conditions are among the most common reasons for disability claims in Canada — and the system that pays them is the one working people understand least, because nobody reads the booklet until they need it.

Fifteen minutes, no card, no couch. Here is the whole shape of it, so the only unknown left is whether the fit feels right — which is the one thing the call exists to find out.

Somebody on your team is struggling right now — statistically, several somebodies. Most employers genuinely want to help and have been sold exactly one tool. This page is the fuller toolbox.

Career-changers ask this more than school-leavers do — usually after their own therapy made the work visible. Here is the honest map: the years, the money, and the parts nobody mentions.