Mental Health Resources
Improving our community's well-being starts by addressing our community's mental health.
Access free, supportive mental health resources and services across Quebec, designed for entrepreneurs, artists, newcomers, and career-focused individuals within the province’s English-speaking communities. Get practical tips, mindfulness techniques, and valuable insights to boost your mental well-being.
Immediate Crisis Support
If you or someone you know is in immediate danger or experiencing a mental health crisis, please call 9-8-8 or go to the nearest emergency room immediately.
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The importance of prioritizing mental health
As a non-profit service organization that supports job seekers, entrepreneurs, and artists, we know how important it is to prioritize our mental health. It’s a critical component of achieving personal and professional success.
We understand the challenges that come with pursuing your passion, which is why we want to remind you to take care of yourself during these times. Remember, self-care is not selfish; it’s necessary for our well-being.
English-language mental health resources across Quebec
No matter where you are on your employment or entrepreneurial journey, taking care of your mental health is important. To help you find the support you need, we have compiled a comprehensive list of English-language mental health resources across Quebec. Whether you need help with stress, anxiety, depression, or other mental health issues, there are resources available to support you. Don’t hesitate to prioritize your mental well-being and explore these resources today.
CRISIS HOTLINES
Montréal
Info‑Social 811 is a free and confidential telephone consultation service, available 24/7, 365 days a year. Anyone living in Québec can call for themselves or for someone else, such as a family member or friend. However, if you are outside of Québec, you cannot access Info-Social 811.
24 Hour Crisis Line English/French
Call 514-388-9233
McGill Students’ Nightline is a confidential, anonymous, and non-judgmental listening service run by McGill students.
Call 514-398-6246
Tel-Aide Montréal is Quebec’s first call center offering a listening service for individuals dealing with mental health issues or simply needing someone to talk to. For over 50 years, Tel-Aide has answered more than two million calls, providing daily support to thousands of Montrealers through a toll-free, confidential, and anonymous service in both French and English.
Call 514-935-1101
The Tel-jeunes intervention model is based on ‘reality therapy.’ Rather than offering ready-made answers or quick solutions, Tel-jeunes’ professional counselors guide young people to explore their options and find their own solutions.
Call 514-288-1444
24/7 Crisis intervention line. English/French.
Call 514-768-7225
24 Hour Crisis Line. English/French
Call 514-723-4000 or 1-866-277-3553
Kids Help Phone is Canada’s only 24/7, national support service, offering professional counselling, information and referrals and volunteer-led, text-based support to young people in both English and French.
Call 1-800-668-6868
24/7 support Bilingual crisis centre.
Call 514-483-3033
Monteregie
Lanaudière
Laurentides
Faubourg Suicide Prevention Centre
The Faubourg Suicide Prevention Centre aims to prevent suicide and its impact in the Laurentians by providing access to quality services to suicidal individuals, to their loved ones, to those in mourning after a suicide, and to the trained professionals who work with them.
Call 450-565-0490
Individual help: coaching, listening, prevention, support groups and on the spot activities.
Call 819-774-1687 or 1-888-681-7717
La Halte des Proches is the Association laurentienne des proches de la personne atteinte de maladie mentale, an association that helps family caregivers of people living with mental illnesses.
Call 450-438-4291 or 1-800-663-0659
SUPPORT SERVICES & COUNSELLING
Montréal
Arborescence offers information, workshops, tools and support to encourage the well-being of friends and family members of a person living with mental health issues.
Call 514-524-7131
Support services and individual counselling for women who are living in a situation of domestic violence. English and Spanish.
Call 514-270-8291
Support services and individual counselling for women who have experienced domestic violence. English and Arabic.
Call 514-855-0330
Support services and individual counselling for those with a relative or friend suffering from mental illness.
Call 514-486-1448
Support services and individual counselling for women and children who are survivors of domestic violence.
Call 514-731-0833
Support services and individual counselling for women and children who are survivors of domestic violence. 24/7
Call 514- 481-0495
Black Healing Centre’s (BHC) goal is to provide an accessible space for intergenerational, culturally relevant, and afro-positive mental health care. BHC’s core mission is to create an accessible and safer space for Black people to gather, connect and heal.
Black Mental Health Connections
Black Mental Health Connections Montreal (BMHC MTL) is an alliance of organizations and individuals focused on the mental health and well-being of the English-speaking Black community in Montreal.
Counselling and treatment for those suffering from addictions.
Call 514-738-7700
Peer to peer support.
Call 514-934-4546
Support services and individual counselling for families and friends with a loved one affected by a mental illness.
Call 514-636-6885
The Lavender Collective is a Black-led community effort, that advocates for culturally relevant mental health related needs in BIPOC communities through education, network and resource building.
Mental Health Services for immigrants & refugees.
Call 514-737-3604
Mental Health Services for Aboriginal Montrealers.
Call 514-331-6587
Projet PAL, a bilingual community organization founded in 1975, responds to these issues by offering diverse services using an alternative approach of empowerment and mutual aid.
Call 514 767-4701
Offers alternative community follow-up services to adults living with mental health challenges in order to help them improve their well-being.
Call 514 366-0891
Le rebond, an alternative mental health resource in la petite-patrie, is a community-based organization founded in 2014 with the goal of responding to the glaring lack of mental health services in the neighbourhood.
Call 438 404-9909
Relief: The Path of Mental Health
Supporting people living with anxiety, depression, or bipolarity, and their loved ones, so they can keep moving forward.
Call 1-866-REVIVRE (738-4873)
Individual Mental Health Services for those who have suffered or witnessed organized act(s) of violence.
Call 514-282-0661
Crisis Intervention Services for women and children exposed to conjugal or family violence. Services are offered in 13 different languages.
Call 514-274-8117
You are living with loneliness, anxiety, stress at work or difficult relationships? You are suffering from addictions, violence or losses in your life? Tel-Aide can help you by providing a listening ear. Anonymity and confidentiality are guaranteed.
Call 514-684-6160
The idea of Vent Over Tea is to provide a casual, confidential and non-judgmental outlet for members of the Montreal community who simply want to talk to someone outside their family or social circle.
24/7 Crisis Intervention.
Call 514-684-6160
The Women’s Centre of Montreal is a non-profit organization created by women, for women.
Call 514 842-4780
The Y Mind program is an innovative, youth informed, early intervention program that helps teens and young adults manage stress and anxiety. Y Mind helps young people cope with anxiety and improve their sense of well-being by introducing them to evidence-based tools and connecting them with others.
Capitale-Nationale
Jeffery Hale Community Partners is a community-based charitable organization whose mission is to better the health and wellness of the English-speaking community of the Greater Québec City (or Capitale-Nationale) region, including Portneuf and Charlevoix, with focus on those most at risk.
Call 418-684-JEFF (5333), ext. 11835 or 1-888 984-5333 toll-free
Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine
CAMI (Council for anglophone Magdalen Islanders)
CAMI (Council for Anglophone Magdalen Islanders) has been working in the English-speaking community of the Magdalen Islands since 1987. A non-profit organization, CAMI is an organization of the community for the community, promoting the rights of Anglophone Magdalen Islanders. Health, education, language, culture and heritage are all part of CAMI’s mandate.
CASA (Committee for Anglophone Social Action)
CASA works with the volunteer-driven Mental Health Task Force to increase access to mental health services for English-speakers and to provide community-based wellness activities.
Vision Gaspé-Percé is a non-profit community organization. The Youth Mental Health Initiative YMHI aims to increase the mental wellbeing of youth between the ages of 15 to 29 through mental health prevention, mental health promotion and mental health literacy.
Nord du Québec
Cree Health WIICHIHIIWAAUWIN (MENTAL HEALTH) HELPLINE
Service available 24/7. Cree speakers and Elders are available upon request.
Call 1-833-632-4357
The Inuulitsivik health and social services center provides and contributes to on-the-job mentoring of Inuit, to provide them access to various positions, both in the direct provision of services and in support services (administration, maintenance, technical, etc.)
Ungava Tulattavik Health Centre
The mission of the UTHC is to provide safe, accessible and quality health and social services to the seven Inuit communities of the Ungava Bay Coast, and rehabilitation services to the fourteen Inuit communities of Nunavik. Click the link for a variety of phone numbers to call in your area.
Laval
Our mission is to enhance the vitality of the underprivileged English-speaking and multicultural people of Laval by offering a wide variety of services that promote and improve mental and physical well-being.
Mauricie
Outaouais
The Connexions Resource Centre is a not-for-profit community organization whose mission is to serve and promote the health, well-being and vitality of the English-speaking population of the Outaouais.
Call 819-557-0615
Chaudière-Appalaches
Laurentides
Centre aux Sources d’Argenteuil
Alternative resource and mental health support group. A place to break the isolation, exchange ideas.
Call 450-562-0673
Formattitude (Fondation) is a non-profit organization founded in 2005. Its mission is to raise funds to help people attend intervention sessions, workshop, and supportive aftercare offered by Dolly’s Centre Attitude.
Le Collectif des Laurentides en santé mentale
The mission of the Collectif des Laurentides en Santé Mentale is to promote, raise awareness and defend the needs and interests of people who live or have lived with a mental health problem.
Call 450-229-8440
Montérégie
Our mission is to assist and empower people of all ages to access health and social services, information, resources, programs, and activities in English on the South Shore.
Call (Candiac) 438-455-2747 or (St-Jean-sur-Richelieu) 450-525-1176
Our Harbour provides a caring, cost-effective long-term housing program on Montreal’s South Shore for people of diverse backgrounds living with mental illness.
Call 450 671-9160
SUPPORT GROUPS
Montréal
Mental Health Services for Youth 12 to 25 years of age.
Call 514-481-0277
McGill Domestic Violence Clinic
They provide counseling on issues related to all forms of violence in intimate relationships and the effect such violence has on families and their social networks.
Call 514-398-2686
Sexual Assault Resource Centre of the McGill Students’ Society (SACOMSS)
Support groups for survivors of sexual assault.
Call 514-398-8500
Laval
Services: Social and vocational rehabilitation and Self-help and individual support.
Call 450-490-4224
Esterie
The CALACS offers many individual services for women victims of sexual assault. Note that none of these services are mandatory, if a women does not want them. She can choose what is better for herself every step of the way.
Call 819-563-9999
Our support groups are offered in a confidential setting for families and friends or for individuals living with mental illness.
Lanaudière
The mission of MITAS is to reduce the impact of sexual assault on minor victims by providing counselling and therapy services, and to provide therapy, prevention and education services for perpetrators of sexual offences against minors.
Laurentides
The Kanesatake Health Center Inc.
The Kanesatake Health Center Inc. Mental Health Program provides a wide range of spcialized culturally adapted and family centered approach programs and services tailored to the needs of community members.
ADDICTIONS COUNSELLING
Montréal
Alcoholics Anonymous is an international movement of men and women who had a drinking problem.
Call 514 350-3444
Lifeline is a non-sectarian agency dedicated to helping everyone affected by addiction.
Call 514-738-7700
Crystal Meth Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other, so they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from addiction to crystal meth.
EADA is aimed at adults (adult children) from dysfunctional or alcoholic families.
Call 514 990-0901
Foster Addiction Rehabilitation Centre (CRD Foster)
Individual treatment and intervention for addictions.
Call 514-486-1304
Gam-Anon has created this website to provide information for the general public and professional community about problem (compulsive) gambling and its financial and emotional effects on the gamblers’ families and loved ones.
Call 514-484-6666 or 1-866-484-6664
N.A. is a non-profit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become a major problem.
The goal was to provide an alternative sentencing measure for repeat offenders of impaired driving.
Call 514-564-6909
Offers residential treatment for youth and adults.
Call 514-939-0202
Lanaudière
Vilavi provides services to adult men and women struggling with drug problems, alcohol and homeless or people at risk of homelessness or living in residential instability.
Laurentides
They help people of all ages with an alcohol addiction problem.
Onen’tó:kon Healing Lodge (OHL)
Serving Indigenous men and women who are over the age of 18 with drug and/or alcohol addictions.
For people who are socially disengaged from traditional resources and who may be experiencing problems of social exclusion, isolation, poverty, marginalization, drug addiction, dropping out of school, physical or mental health, psychological distress, or any other problem affecting their quality of life.
SHELTERS
For more information on shelters near you, please take a look at this comprehensive list.
Montréal
Native Women’s Shelter of Montreal
Shelter for Aboriginal women and their children.
Call 514-933-4688
Auberge Shalom pour femmes (ASPF) is a non-profit organization for women in abusive relationships and their dependent children. Call Auberge Shalom’s 24-hour hotline for more information:
Call 514 731-0833
L’Abri de l’espoir (Armée du Salut)
L’Abri d’espoir is open 24/7. Lodging includes meals, basic care, moral support, access to bilingual services and more.
Call 514-934-5615
At La rue des Femmes, we understand that healing the deep relational wounds, restoring the relational health, and rebuilding the lives of the homeless requires much more than just shelter: it requires socio-emotional, psychological and health care.
Call 514 284-9665
The services it offers have multiplied to form a true continuum ranging from emergency housing to permanent housing with social housing support.
Call 514 932-2250
Its mission is to offer women psychosocial support to help them break the cycle of domestic abuse, rebuild their power and regain control over their lives.
Call 514 598-7779
24/7 Homeless Shelter.
Men’s hotline 514 798-2244
Women’s hotline 514 526-6446
We offer women secure shelter as well as help and support adapted to their needs.
Call 514 845-0151
Chez Doris is a charitable organization that offers a range of services and programs to meet the most basic and immediate needs of vulnerable women and homeless women. We are the only women’s shelter in Montréal offering 24/7 service.
Call 514 937-2341 and dial “0”
The Shield of Athena is a non-profit organization for victims of family violence. We offer emergency shelter and professional services to women and their children.
To support troubled and homeless young men aged 17 to 25, and to help improve their living conditions.
Call 514.849.4221 ext 2.
The Bunker is an emergency shelter open every night that can accommodate up to 17 youth aged 12 to 21 years old.
Call 514 526-7677
SOS Violence Conjugale provides support services and can suggest protective strategies and measures that fit each victim’s particular situation. The helpline is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and offers bilingual services.
Call 1-800-363-9010
Women on the Rise is a nonprofit organization based in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce (NDG) that offers programs and services to women and their families.
Call 514-485-7814
Logifem provides shelter and care to women and children in Montreal. Logifem’s vision is to equip and empower women and children to leave the cycle of homelessness and thrive. Logifem has two shelters that can accommodate up to 28 women and 20 children. Once admitted, they can stay for up to a year.
Call 514-939-3172
A multidisciplinary team provides various services to women and children victims of conjugal violence. In addition to providing temporary shelter, we have developed over the years various support services, such as a 24/7 crisis line, ongoing support, accompaniment and follow up services.
Call 514 620 4845
Laurentides
Centre d’Hébergement Multiservice de Mirabel
The CHMM’s housing service is offered on a short-term basis, for a period varying from 30 to 90 days, accompanied by psychosocial follow-up with qualified workers.
Call 450-951-5551
Laval
Les Habitations l’Envolée est une initiative de l’Auberge du Cœur l’Envolée
Their mission is to offer affordable furnished supervised apartments for homeless young adults (18-30 years old) as well as 4 units for single-parent families in the Laval and North Shore area.
Longueuil
Room and board is available for a nominal fee of $8 per day (payment terms negotiable).
Call 450-651-0125
LGBTQIA+
Montréal
Individual and group support for LGBITQ migrants (asylum seekers, refugees, immigrants, and those with undetermined status). Contact by email only.
Québec Trans Health Action / Action Santé Travesti(e)s et Transsexuel(le)s du Québec (ASTT(e)Q)
Services available in English, Spanish, and French for trans people.
Call 514-847-0067 ext. 207
AIDS Community Care Montreal (ACCM)
ACCM is Quebec’s only HIV and sexual health community organization that provides education for prevention, treatment information, and support services to anglophone and allophone communities.
Learn more about our services and resources for jobseekers, entrepreneurs, and artists.
Discover our calendar of workshops and events.
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