Depression and Anxiety

Depression and anxiety can significant impact your ability to eat, sleep, maintain relationships, and care for yourself. Below, you can find resources to help you learn the skills needed to get better. For people with more severe symptoms, medications can be helpful to give you the lift needed to follow through on the courses and resources provided in the links below. Please also remember that regular exercise and activity can be very helpful for mood as well.

Online mental health courses and workbooks:

  1. Bounceback BC
    Coaching and online workbooks. Free.
    Main website: https://bouncebackbc.ca
    Registration link: https://bounceback.inputhealth.com/ereferral#patient
  2. Kelty’s Key
    Online courses for insomnia, depression and anxiety. Free.
    https://www.keltyskey.com
  3. Mood Gym
    Depression and anxiety course. $40/year
    https://moodgym.com.au/info/faq
  4. Antidepressant Skills Workbook
    Free workbook!
  5. Book: Mind over mood
    CBT workbook that you can buy from many bookstores.
    https://www.amazon.ca/Mind-Over-Mood-Second-Changing/dp/1462520421

Counselling

  • Low cost counselling options:
    Click here for more information
  • Find a counsellor service:
    Click here for more information
    For counselling, try to find a provider that provides cognitive behavioral therapy, which focuses on changing how you think about things as you experience them, and changing the links between your thoughts, feelings, and actions.

Apps on your phone

  1. Mindshift
    CBT app for anxiety. FREE!
    https://www.anxietycanada.com/resources/mindshift-cbt/
  2. Wysa
    This is a “chat bot” that can have a helpful conversation with you about mood, based on CBT. FREE!
    Android app
    Apple app
  3. Breathr (from Kelty’s Key)
    App to help you practice mindfulness. FREE!
    https://keltymentalhealth.ca/breathr
  4. Headspace
    A meditation app and site for anxiety. $7.50 per month.
    https://www.headspace.com/
  5. CBT-i Coach
    Teaches you how to sleep and manage insomnia
    Android app
    Apple app

For substance use and addiction

  1. Addictions meetings
    https://www.smartrecoverytest.org/local/

  2. Alcoholics Anonymous
    Phone: (604) 800-5770
    Helpline: (604) 434-3933
    http://www.vancouveraa.ca