Virtual Therapy · Serving Saskatchewan
TEO Counselling Services provides online video therapy to adults and couples across Saskatchewan — Saskatoon, Regina, Prince Albert, Moose Jaw, and everywhere in between. No commutes and no waiting rooms: meet with your therapist from wherever you feel comfortable.
Free initial consultation · No referral needed · Seven days a week
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Online therapy in Saskatchewan, at a glance. TEO Counselling provides therapy across Saskatchewan through video sessions with two clinicians: Mohamad Shabib, MACP, a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association who is also a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) with the CRPO in Ontario, and Rola Shbib, BSW (Hons), RSW (Ontario). Individual sessions are $150 and couples sessions are $175, each 60 minutes, with appointments from 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm Saskatchewan time from roughly March to November and 2:00 pm to 11:00 pm through the winter (the province does not change its clocks), seven days a week. Saskatchewan Health does not cover counselling in private practice; whether an extended health plan reimburses depends on the designation it names — CCC, RSW or Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying), and every session comes with an insurance-ready receipt. The first step is a free 15-minute consultation, and evening and weekend appointments are routine. Direct billing is available with Mohamad for Pacific Blue Cross and TELUS eClaims plans (Canada Life, Manulife); with Rola you pay per session and submit the receipt. Coverage depends on the credentials your plan recognizes — check for CCC, RSW or Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying). See direct billing for the detail.
Mohamad Shabib, MACP, CCC, is a Canadian Certified Counsellor with the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA) — a voluntary national certification, not a provincial licence. He is also a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) with the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario (CRPO), a registration that applies in Ontario only. Sessions are available in English and Arabic.
Trauma and PTSD therapy, including EMDR and Internal Family Systems
Couples counselling using the Gottman Method
Anxiety, stress, and burnout
Depression and low mood
Faith-informed and spiritually integrated therapy, including support for Muslim clients
Newcomer, immigrant, and second-generation identity challenges
Trauma work, including EMDR, and couples work both run by video here, following the same structure they would in a room. Online sessions also mean you can keep the same therapist whether you live in downtown Saskatoon or a rural community — and appointments fit around work and family instead of traffic.
Some Saskatchewan extended health plans include coverage for counselling. Coverage for services provided by a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) varies by insurer, so check your plan details before booking. You will receive a receipt after each session to submit to your provider.
Sessions for Saskatchewan clients are with Mohamad Shabib, MACP, CCC or Rola Shbib, BSW (Hons), RSW (Ontario), and we confirm which on the free consultation call. Mohamad Shabib concentrates on trauma and relationships: Advanced EMDR through an EMDRIA-approved programme, Internal Family Systems Levels 1 and 2, the Gottman Method Levels 1 and 2 for couples, and CBT for Trauma Levels 1 and 2. He has also worked directly in concurrent trauma and addictions treatment.
Sessions are available in English and Arabic, and you can move between the two mid-session if that is how the words arrive.
One point of honesty about credentials, because it is the sort of thing that is easy to blur: the CCC designation is a voluntary national certification held through the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association, not a provincial licence. His Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) registration with the CRPO applies in Ontario. Counselling is not a regulated profession in Saskatchewan, which is precisely why the designation behind the person matters when you are choosing.
Individual therapy is $150 per 60-minute session. Couples counselling is $175. The first conversation — 15 minutes, to work out whether this is a good fit — is free, and there is no referral needed to book it.
There is no provincial health-plan billing for counselling in Saskatchewan. Sessions are paid privately, and you receive an insurance-ready receipt after each one. Some extended health plans reimburse services provided by a Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC), but the amount and the wording differ from plan to plan, so it is worth checking your own booklet for the designation it names before your first session.
A small number of reduced-fee spots are held. If cost is the thing standing in the way, say so on the consultation call.
Sessions run from the Pacific coast. Saskatchewan keeps Central Standard Time all year and does not move its clocks, so the gap between us changes twice a year even though your own clock never does.
From roughly March to November the province is one hour ahead of the coast; through the winter months it is two. Sessions run from noon until nine in the evening Pacific time, which lands as one in the afternoon until ten at night through most of the year, and an hour later than that once the clocks elsewhere fall back. The window is the same every day of the week.
The free consultation is a conversation, not an assessment. You describe what is going on in whatever order it comes out, and you get a straight answer about whether this is the right kind of help — including if the honest answer is that someone else would be a better fit.
The first full session is mostly history and direction: what brought you here, what has already been tried, what you want to be different. Nothing is dug into before you are ready, and structured trauma work in particular does not begin until there is enough stability and enough trust in the room to make it worth doing.
From there the pace is yours. Some people come weekly for a few months and stop; others come fortnightly for longer. There is no package to sign and no minimum number of sessions.
What you say in session is kept confidential, with the limits that apply here: a risk of serious harm to you, a risk of serious harm to someone else, a child who may be abused or neglected, and a court order or subpoena. Those limits are explained in full in the first session, before anything sensitive is discussed.
Appointments for Saskatchewan run from 1:00 pm to 10:00 pm local time from roughly March to November, and from 2:00 pm to 11:00 pm through the winter, seven days a week. The shift is not yours — Saskatchewan never moves its clocks; it happens because the practice keeps Pacific hours and the coast does.
Counselling is not a regulated profession in Saskatchewan: there is no college and no protected counselling title, so anyone in the province may call themselves a counsellor or therapist. The one line Saskatchewan law draws is around diagnosis, not therapy — communicating a diagnosis of certain psychological disorders is reserved to authorized professions, while counselling itself is not restricted. Since the province is not vetting the person you book with, the designation they hold has to do that work.
Saskatchewan clients are seen by Mohamad Shabib or Rola Shbib — both are named here because either may be the right fit, and the free consultation call settles which. Mohamad holds the Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) designation through the CCPA, which carries a code of ethics and a complaints process. Rola is a Registered Social Worker with the Ontario College of Social Workers and Social Service Workers — an Ontario registration.
For coverage, the designation is the detail that matters: extended health booklets in Saskatchewan name the credentials they reimburse — CCC in some, RSW or Registered Psychotherapist in others — and a claim stands or falls on that wording. Check yours before the first paid session, and ask the insurer if the booklet is ambiguous.
No. TEO Counselling is virtual only — every session is by video, anywhere in the province. It means someone in Prince Albert or a rural community has the same access as someone in the two cities, and it is why there is no waitlist.
No. Counselling and psychotherapy are not covered by provincial health plans anywhere in Canada. Coverage comes through extended health benefits, employee assistance programmes, or private payment. You receive a receipt after each session for your insurer.
It matters when you are choosing. Because the title is not protected provincially, anyone may call themselves a counsellor here, so the meaningful question is what designation the person actually holds and who oversees it. Mohamad holds the Canadian Certified Counsellor designation through the CCPA, which carries a code of ethics and a complaints process.
Yes. The service is province-wide, and rural access is one of the clearest arguments for working this way. A private space and a reasonably stable connection are all that is needed; sessions can run by phone if the connection is poor.
There is currently no waitlist. The booking calendar shows real availability rather than an estimate, so you can see the next open consultation time before you book.
Therapy is not a crisis service. If you need someone now, these are free and staffed around the clock:
More Saskatchewan crisis lines and free programs — verified, with links — are on our resources page.
Our library of 24 free printable tools — workbooks and handouts on anxiety, trauma, grief and relationships — is free to download and use between sessions.
If you are in immediate danger, please call 911.
Every session is online, so where you are in the province changes nothing about access. These pages cover the local picture.
It is a chance for both of us to see whether we're the right fit — no pressure, no commitment.
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If you would rather ask a question before picking a time — about fees, coverage, or how video sessions work in Saskatchewan — send a short note and we will reply by email.