Community Resources

Here to help, any way we can.

Whether through consultation, advocacy, referrals, or otherwise, we are here for the community.

Crisis Services • Community Consultation • Advocacy • Referrals • Shop

Crisis Resources

In the case that you cannot get a hold of your practitioner or your practitioner is not available, please do not wait for them to get back to you if you are in crisis or at immediate risk. As we are practitioners in private practice, we may not be able to move things around in our schedule in order to support you as we are sometimes booked far in advance.

Please call, text, or go online with one of these emergency resources below:

Crisis Services Canada: 1-833-456-4566 (24/7) or text 45645 from 4 pm to midnight
Hope for Wellness: 1-855-242-3310 or chat online for support for Indigenous peoples in Canada. Staff speak in various Indigenous languages.
Transgender Crisis Line: 1-877-330-6366
www.ementalhealth.ca: visit the crisis and emergency section to find various crisis services in your local community.

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Community Consultation

Clinical Director and Founder of Healing Journey, Aden is a registered social worker in Ontario and Canadian Certified Counsellor. They are someone who has a lot of lived experience in addition to their professional experience and they offer community consultation to other practitioners hoping to work with their communities.

“I am a queer and non-binary person who is non-monogamous, differently abled, and a trauma survivor who has experienced addiction. I am also someone who has training or experience with all of these communities as well so I would be a breadth of knowledge for someone who is looking to start working with one of these communities.”

“I am open for consultation for professionals or organizations who are looking to work with one of these communities and need either regular consultation or a one-time consultation. I am a virtual practitioner and can provide virtual space for our meetings.

The price for community consultation is $170 per one-hour meeting. Reach out to aden@healingjourneycounselling.ca to schedule time with them or get further information.

Advocacy Services

Practitioners of Healing Journey offer advocacy services.

For Indigenous clients who are covered by NIHB, advocacy is included as part of the service provided. However, for people who are paying for services through insurance or otherwise, we may need to charge extra for some advocacy services but we would make sure to let you know that we would need to charge you before providing the service.

Please note that if your practitioner offers to do some advocacy for you for free, such as make a call, send an email, make a referral, or write a support letter, this means that we are not going to charge you. We want to help you because it is important to us.

If you need us to write a specific support letter to another professional or organization, this is the type of service that we would need to charge for as it does take some time for us to do this. We may have to review files, assessments, and notes before writing a letter to capture everything we need to document. Tasks such as emailing someone, making a referral, or making a quick call may not be things that we charge for.

Each practitioner may be different in how they will provide advocacy services so it is best to check with your practitioner to see what they can provide you. Right now, Healing Journey has an amazing administration person, the Clinic Manager of Healing Journey named Krista Hansen, who is supporting us with advocacy pieces so that we can do this faster and more efficiently than ever!

Referral Services

For Self-Referral

Please contact our lovely Clinic Manager, Krista Hansen at info@healingjourneycounselling.ca and let her know what you are looking for in terms of services and she will find what you are looking for.
If you are thinking that you are ready to book a consultation with the practitioner of your choice, feel free to book through our online booking system.
After a consultation, we will send you an intake and consent form via email so that we can gather some information about your needs. This will help us provide the best possible service to you. The intake and consent form can be filled out on your end and sent back to your practitioner and is confidential.

Referral from another professional

Send our lovely Clinic Manager, Krista, an email at info@healingjourneycounselling.ca with some information about the person that you are hoping to refer to our team, which includes their contact information for us to reach out to them.
After this is done, we will take it from there! Thank you for your referral!