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Three short tools for the questions people ask before they book anything: which kind of counselling fits, what it costs in British Columbia once extended health is taken into account, and a plain reflection on how the last few weeks have been. Each runs entirely in your browser — nothing is stored, nothing is sent, and none of them ask for an email address.
None of these is an assessment or a diagnosis, and none can tell you whether you have a condition. They are for orienting yourself. If you want an actual answer, a free 15-minute consultation will get you further than any of them.
Why none of these ask for an email address
The standard version of a tool like this collects your answers, asks for an email to “send your results”, and turns what you disclosed into a sales list. That pattern is common enough in this industry that it is worth saying plainly: none of these do it. They run entirely in your browser, nothing is transmitted, nothing is stored, and there is no account. Closing the tab is the end of it.
That constraint is also why several outcomes point away from this practice. A tool that can only ever conclude “book with us” is an advertisement wearing a quiz’s clothes, and people can tell. Where what you describe points to a physician, to an EFAP you may already have, or to free and low-cost counselling in BC, that is what it says.
What they cannot do
None of these screens, scores or diagnoses, and that is a design decision rather than a limitation to apologise for. Validated screening instruments exist, they are administered in a clinical context, and their results mean something because of that context — six questions on a website have none of it. A score here would carry the appearance of measurement with none of the substance, and people remember numbers long after they forget the caveat printed underneath.
A Registered Clinical Counsellor does not diagnose in any case. Where a formal diagnosis is what you need, that is a physician, psychiatrist or registered psychologist — psychiatry and assessment in BC covers how those routes work, and this practice’s stated scope sets out where the line sits.
Which one to start with
If you are not sure counselling is the right thing at all, start with the reflection on how things have been — it is the least committal of the three, and its job is to hand you language rather than a conclusion. If you have decided to go ahead but not what kind, which kind of counselling fits sorts that in about two minutes. If the question is affordability rather than fit, go straight to what counselling costs in BC, because the answer depends on your extended health plan rather than on anything published here.
Prefer to read? The counselling guides cover the same ground in more depth, the comparisons lay out the trade-offs between options, and fees and coverage has the numbers in full.
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