🍻Pink, White, & Brew Community Resources☕

Howdy! This page contains resources for the trans community located in and around BC's Metro Vancouver and Lower Mainland. Live in another area of BC? Click here for a periodically-updated spreadsheet contianing all BC 2SLGBTQIA+ community groups and support services we've collected. (It's a constant work in progress, but feel free to share it around.) ✷ Join the Pink, White, & Brew Discord community ↗

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Mental Health Resources

If you are a mental health provider looking to be included below, please familiarize yourself with our list of requirements before contacting us.

Crisis Lines

• Canada-wide crisis line: 9-8-8
• Trans Lifeline: By and for trans-identified people. (877)-330-6366
• KUU-US Crisis Line Society: By and for First Nations people. (800)-588-8717
• Crisis Centre of BC: Barrier-free, non-judgemental, and confidential. (800)-784-2433
• BC Mental Health Support Line: (No area code required) 310-6789
• Salal Centre Rape Crisis Line: For people of all marginalized genders. (604)-255-6344
• Thrive Lifeline: Text helpline for people of any marginalized identity. Text "THRIVE" to (313)-662-8209

Free and Reduced-Cost Mental Health Supports

• Adler Centre: Low-cost counselling starting at $65/hr.
• Anxiety Canada: Tools, information, and help for people with anxiety. 🆓
• BounceBack: A "skill-building program designed to help adults and youth 13+ manage low mood, mild to moderate depression, anxiety, stress or worry." Delivered online or over the phone. 🆓
• Ciel Community Counselling: Low-cost counselling at $50/hr.
• CMHA Counselling Services: Up to 8 sessions provided as low as $35/hr.
• Dealing With Depression: A free online resource with information and skills-building tips. 🆓
• The Den: Various facilitated weekly support groups, with LGBTQ+ and trans-specific offerings. $20-40 per.
• Gordon Neighborhood House: Free, short-term counselling to residents of the Lower Mainland. 🆓
• Here to Help: Free mental health and substance use information. 🆓
• Hollyburn Family Services: Low-cost counselling.
• Living Systems Counselling: Sliding scale counselling starting at $15/hr.
• Open Path Collective: Low-cost counselling network starting at $30/hr.
• QMUNITY Counselling: 10 sessions of reduced cost counselling. 6-8 month waitlist. (Must complete intake process to be accepted.)
• The Queer Care Kit: A mental health resource for 2SLGBTQIA+ people, with information about stress, resilience, and health care in Canada. 🆓
• Salal Centre: Up to 25 sessions of free counselling for survivors of sexualized violence. 🆓
• Self-Help Guides from the NHS: A series of free guides and workbooks from the NHS covering 25 different mental health issues. 🆓
• SFU Mental Health Resources 🆓
• The Woods Arts & Wellness: Income-based Counselling, starting at $30/hr.
• Thrive Counselling Centre: Low-cost, virtual or in-person counselling downtown. $65/hr.
• UBC Counselling Clinic: Free counselling available during the academic year from Sept - Apr. 🆓
• Vancouver Black Therapy & Advocacy Foundation: Free and low-cost counselling for Black people. 🆓
• Walk Along: A Free resource and toolkit for depression and anxiety. 🆓
• Wellness Together Canada: Free, 24/7 access to phone counselling for youth and adults anywhere in Canada. 🆓
• WIRTH Hats Cousnelling Program - Free counselling for adults anywhere in Canada. (Must complete intake process to be accepted.) 🆓

Sliding Scale Counselling Providers

All providers listed have special experience with queer clients (more than just opting into a category on a directory!) and offer remote/virtual counselling anywhere in BC.
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Remember, if your therapist is also a registered social worker, you can claim your therapy costs on your income tax!

Misc. Providers

• All Providers with 2SLGBTQIA+ Experience
• All Non-Binary Providers
• Ace-Competent Mental Health Professional List

If any of this information is out of date or if you want to suggest an addition, please write me at pinkwhitebrew at pm dot me.

PW&B gathers on the traditional and unceeded lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and Sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. We strongly encourage all uninvited settlers to reflect on ways that they can honor the timeless stewardship of these lands by First Nations peoples, and continue to self-edcuate and advocate for a decolonized future.

Last updated November 2024.