Services
Most people can’t tell the difference between counselling, therapy and coaching from the outside — and honestly, you shouldn’t have to. We’ll sort that out together on a free consultation.
Service 01
Forward-looking and goal-driven. We help you fit life into your recovery — not the other way around.
We work with you on
Service 02
Focused, practical support for substance use and behavioural addiction. Understanding what the addiction is doing for you, what it’s costing you, and building something that can hold in its place.
We help with
Service 03
Clinical therapy for what sits underneath the addiction — anxiety, depression, trauma, and the patterns that keep repeating. Delivered by registered psychotherapists, including a physician.
Approaches
No commitment. Confidential. Free 20-minute call.
Counselling, therapy, coaching — most people can’t tell them apart from the outside, and you shouldn’t have to. Call and we’ll sort it out together.
Our podcast is open to everyone. No sign-up, no cost — just honest conversations about recovery, from the people doing this work.
If you’re in crisis, call or text 9-8-8 — Canada’s Suicide Crisis Helpline — or go to your nearest emergency department.
Rates below the Ontario average, with sliding-scale options available. Many extended health plans cover Registered Psychotherapist sessions. We’ll walk you through what applies to you on the consultation call.
It’s less about how much you use than whether it’s causing problems and you’re carrying on anyway. The common signs: needing more for the same effect, trying to cut back and not managing it, losing time to using or recovering, using taking priority over the people and things that matter, and continuing despite damage to your health, work, or relationships.
You don’t need to meet a clinical threshold to deserve help. If you’re reading this, something might already be bothering you — and that’s reason enough.
Yes. That’s the honest answer to a question almost everyone asks.
There’s no severity test to pass. Some of the most useful work we do is with people who’d never be diagnosed with anything — they just knew something wasn’t right and got ahead of it. Waiting until things are undeniable only means arriving later and more tired.
Yes. Holding down a job, paying the mortgage and showing up for your family doesn’t rule anything out — it usually just delays the point at which anyone intervenes, including you.
“But I’m doing fine” is often true and beside the point at the same time. The question isn’t whether you’re succeeding despite it. It’s what it costs you to keep doing both.
Not cured, but absolutely recovered from — and the difference matters less in practice than it sounds. Thousands of people live full lives without the thing that used to run them, and don’t spend their days white-knuckling it.
What that takes is real change rather than willpower: understanding what the behaviour was doing for you, and building something that does the job better.
Yes. Almost nobody arrives ready — ambivalence is the normal starting point, including for people who go on to change everything.
You don’t need to have decided anything before a first call. Most of them are just about getting an honest picture of what’s happening and what you’d want to be different.
Psychotherapy treats what’s underneath — trauma, anxiety, depression. Addictions counselling works directly on the behaviour: assessment, planning, relapse prevention. Recovery coaching is less clinical and handles the day-to-day — accountability, structure, getting through real situations sober, and building the life you want.
Roughly: a therapist helps you understand why. A coach helps you work out how.
Here’s what makes us different. Most coaching services state plainly on their own websites that they’re not licensed clinical professionals. Most therapy clinics don’t offer coaching at all. We have both — Registered Psychotherapists and Registered Social Service Workers regulated by CRPO and OCSWSSW, alongside coaches with lived experience. So you’re not picking a lane and hoping you picked right. Moving between them is an internal handoff, not a new search and a new intake.
Practical, regular support between the big moments. Check-in calls, building a workable routine, planning for high-risk situations — a wedding, a work trip, the first sober Christmas — and holding you to what you said you’d do when nobody’s watching.
Coaching isn’t therapy and doesn’t diagnose. It’s the person in your corner while you do the rest of your life.
We’re an abstinence-based practice, so we’ll be straight with you: for genuine dependence, cutting back tends to become a full-time job that stopping would have ended. Managing it means thinking about it constantly.
That said, you don’t need to have committed to anything before you call. Most people arrive somewhere in the middle. We’ll meet you where you actually are — we’re just honest about where we’re headed.
It isn’t a requirement. If the steps aren’t your path, say so and we’ll work another way — plenty of people do good work here without ever attending a meeting.
That said, we’re strong supporters of it. AA, NA, MA and the fellowships around them have helped more people get and stay sober than anything else we know of. They’re free, and they’re everywhere in Simcoe County and online. Many of our clients are in one and we’ll help you find a meeting that fits.
More than anything, we encourage building support beyond just working with us — the more in your corner, the better. If 12-step isn’t for you, there are other free groups we can point you to: SMART Recovery, LifeRing, Recovery Dharma, Refuge Recovery, Wings of Change and Women for Sobriety.
