Rapid Access to Psychiatric Assessment

We offer pharmacist consultation and psychiatric evaluation to assess and treat co-occurring mental illness. Rather than wait 6-9 months, begin your psychiatric assessment within 4 weeks and typically in the first week of starting the program.

Bloodwork can be ordered to assess if there are any medical complications from the use of substances or contributors to your health that should be addressed.

Suboxone Assessment

We will work with any client and problem solve around any substance to assess if a harm reduction strategy can work. We are developing an opioid addictions stream that provides support while recognizing that Suboxone or other opioids can be the focus of a client’s strategy to reduce the harms associated with their opioid use disorder while still being prescribed an opioid safely. Well you are free to choose your own pharmacy, we partner with the pharmacy that can work with you and your prescriber to facilitate safe flexible options to minimize the inconvenience often associated with Suboxone or other opioid agonist therapies.

Pharmacist Consultation

Supportive Pharmacotherapy, ongoing support to ensure your medications are meeting your individualized needs.

Trauma Informed Practice, and access to Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) Therapy

Substance use disorder are known to be much more common in survivors of childhood adversity and trauma. We approach every client with the awareness that they may have been impacted by trauma and incorporate strategies to heal from trauma. We have made arrangement for rapid access to EMDR as a component of the program.

Yoga, Breathwork, and Mindfulness Practice

We approach every client with the awareness that they may have been impacted by trauma and incorporate strategies to heal from trauma such as mindfulness and yoga as a meditation practice.

Individual Counselling and Group Therapy

Every client receives individual weekly counselling that utilize a trauma-informed approach that borrows from dialectic behavioural therapy (DBT) cognitive behaviour therapy and other addictions specific strategies. We also offer 1-3 groups a day that are at the core of treatment and involve detailed examination of different topics essential to recovery each week. Virtual attendance is available, but attending in person is ideal.