Mental Health & Wellness

Strides Toronto

Strides Toronto provides a wide range of exceptional programs and services to help our clients and their families achieve their personal best. Our agency supports clients from the prenatal stage to age 29 and their families. Our work helps strengthen their social and emotional well-being, move forward through adversity and develop their abilities and skills to reach their full potential.

Lumenus

If you need support, or you’re a caregiver to a person of any age in need of help, you just found it. We offer a broad range of high quality mental health, developmental, autism and early years intervention services to children, youth, families, and individuals across Toronto.

Kids Help Phone

This is a 24/7 e-mental health service offering free, confidential support to young people in English and French. Talk to someone by text (text CONNECT to 686868), phone (1-800-668-6868), or online chat (open 7:00 pm to midnight). Programs and resources are also available online.

What's Up Walk-In

The What’s Up Walk-In (WUWI) network is Toronto’s only free, six-day-a-week mental health counselling walk-in service for infants, children, youth, young adults, and families. Therapists offer walk-in, single, solution focused sessions. The service is a collaborative initiative of 6 publicly funded Children and Youth Mental Health agencies that operate 7 sites in the City of Toronto.

The clinics help with issues such as depression, anxiety, self-harm, suicidal ideation, sexual identity matters, bullying, behavioural concerns, addictions, and anything else that might be on one’s mind.

Suicide Crisis Helpline

If you are feeling like you have lost hope and are struggling to cope, if you are dealing with thoughts of suicide, or if you are worried about someone else, 9-8-8 is here for you. When you reach out, a trained responder will listen without judgement, provide support and understanding, and can tell you about resources that will help.

Indigenous Hope for Wellness Hotline

This helpline offers immediate help to all Indigenous peoples across Canada. It is available by phone (1-855-242-310) or chat 24/7.

Black Youth Helpline

This organization serves as the point of contact to our professional services from youth, families, school districts, and a variety of youth serving stakeholders. Service in French and other languages available upon request.

LGBT Youthline (LGBTQ+)

This organization has volunteers that are trained peer supporters, aged 16-29, coming from a diversity of 2SLGBTQ+ identities and lived experiences. They are not counsellors. They are peers who can relate and have been trained in active listening and relevant knowledge such as anti-oppression, anti-racism, sex and consent, STIs, HIV, self-care, and more.

Naseeha Mental Health Hotline (Muslim)

Naseeha provides people in the Muslim community with the tools needed to address mental health. With our confidential helpline, our youth receives immediate, anonymous, and confidential support over the phone from 12 PM – 3 AM, 7 days a week. With our educational programs, we raise awareness within the community the stigma around mental health.

Headspace Mini Meditations

Through evidence-based meditation and mindfulness tools, mental health coaching, therapy, psychiatry, Headspace helps you create life-changing habits to support your mental health and find a healthier, happier you.