Online anxiety therapy — evenings and weekends, from wherever you are in Ontario.

Ontario appointment times, and what they rule out

The practice day runs from noon to 9pm Pacific, seven days a week. In Ontario that is 3pm to midnight local, every day, weekends included.

Read that as a limit as much as an offer. There are no morning appointments in Ontario. Nothing over lunch. Nothing before mid-afternoon. If you need a 9am slot, this is the wrong practice, and it is better to know that now than after a consultation.

What does exist is a long Ontario evening: after work, after dinner, after the house goes quiet. The late end of it is genuinely late.

Cancellations need 24 hours' notice. A cancellation inside that window, or a no-show, is charged in full, because the time was held and cannot be refilled that quickly. Everything is by video. There is no office to travel to, in Ontario or anywhere else, and there will not be one.

Generalised worry, panic and social anxiety behave differently

All three get filed under anxiety, and they do not feel alike. The words you bring to the consultation are useful, so here is the plain shape of each.

Generalised worry is diffuse and continuous. The subject rotates — money, a symptom, an unanswered message — while the state stays put. That ground is covered on the anxiety and stress page (/anxiety-therapy).

Panic is acute and physical: fast onset, a peak, then a decline, and while it lasts the body behaves as though a catastrophe is underway. It can leave a second problem behind, a life quietly rearranged around not having another one. More on the panic attacks page (/panic-attacks-therapy).

Social anxiety is about being watched and judged. Dread beforehand, self-monitoring throughout, and afterwards a full replay of what you said and how it landed. More on the social anxiety page (/social-anxiety-therapy).

You are not required to sort yourself into one of these before booking. Counsellors and psychotherapists do not diagnose, so nobody here will hand you a label or run you through a checklist. The work starts from what you describe in your own words.

Common questions

Do I need a referral from a doctor to book?

No. You can book the free consultation yourself. Some extended health plans require a physician's referral before they will reimburse, which is a rule of the plan rather than of the practice, so check your policy wording first if reimbursement matters to you.

Can you prescribe medication for anxiety?

No. Prescriptions come from a physician or a nurse practitioner. Psychotherapists and social workers do not prescribe, and they do not diagnose. If you are already taking something, or want to ask whether you should, that conversation belongs with the prescriber. Therapy can run alongside it.

What are the limits of confidentiality?

What you say stays in your file, with four exceptions: a risk of serious harm to you, a risk of serious harm to someone else, reasonable suspicion that a child is being abused or neglected, and a court order or subpoena for records. If one of those arises, your clinician will tell you what has to be reported and to whom, wherever that is possible.

We want couples sessions as well as individual anxiety work. Can we do both?

They are separate bookings, and a couples session is $175. Gottman Method Levels 1 and 2 training is held by Mohamad Shabib, and also by Alison Shaji, RCC (BCACC), who works with clients in British Columbia. Ask in the consultation which clinician you would be booking with, and for which service.

Is there anything cheaper than $150?

A few reduced-fee spots are held. They are not always open, and no page on this site can tell you whether one is free this month, while a consultation can. There is no means test and no form to complete. You say what you can manage, and we tell you plainly whether a spot exists.