Psychotherapy Referral Service

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Counselling Referral Service

Canada Online Therapy offers an immediate counselling referral service for interdisciplinary practitioners who require mental health care for their patients whose concerns are outside their scope of practice.

Canada Online Therapy differentiates ourselves in multiple ways in how we treat clients, how quickly we can administer them and what office hours we hold.

How we treat clients

What will you actually do with my patient?

Canada Online Therapy holds over 16 years of practice in mental health, offering treatment to clients who have presenting concerns such as anxiety, depression, post-trauma, sleep disturbances, grief, loss, life transitions and more.

If your patient is currently requiring psychotherapy, we have a track record of immediately reducing symptoms such as at-risk symptoms, panic attacks, depression, short-term disability stress, long-term disability depression.

We reduce symptoms immediately by identifying when symptoms began, stabilizing clients with a collaborative assessment of self-care, and motivating them to keep them accountable. We investigate and identify blocks and delays with equal importance as progress made.

We treat original causes of symptoms.

In our experience, this creates long-lasting change. When we take on clients, we take them on for life. Because of this, we are judicious in our growth and availability.

We ensure our onboarding is thorough. We do not take clients if we cannot see that we can create immediate movement and alleviation of suffering.

We ensure solid therapy alliance building from our brief intake assessment. We encourage diligent session assessment from our clients to secure an ongoing therapy alliance.

For more information on treatment, symptom reduction work, onboarding, therapeutic alliance, availability, continuity, and collaborative care, please contact us directly; we would be thrilled to meet with you.

How/when we administer clients

As the practice of psychotherapy and counselling is our passion and purpose, we prioritize our practice unequivocally in our lifestyle.

Our self-care is primary in how we show up to treat our clients.

This being said, our practice consistently closes down days to prioritize existing clients.

Because of this frequent practice, we are able to take on new clients within the same day or within 48 hours.

We create huge buffers in between clients to ensure we are not rushed to open or close sessions. We have a deep appreciation that our therapy work with our clients brings unexpected discoveries and extremely sensitive confidential processing materials.

Our business philosophy is to grow organically.

We do not believe in advertisements.

We believe in slow growth to ensure we can accept our pre-existing clientele of hundreds of clients, who have trusted us with their care, within the same day or within the same week.

This business philosophy prioritizes small, controlled growth to prevent therapist burnout, as we clearly witness how businesses fail to provide genuine continuity of care when demand exceeds supply. We protect our time with clients by providing considerable space around sessions and prioritizing psychotherapy as the central activity of the practice. This priority of care is our identity.

Although our practice is technically a sole proprietorship, we believe we function as a public service. It is our purpose to serve the public with our passion for psychotherapy, and to educate and empower those to seek self-healing.

Office Hours

Our current office hours are a testament to our commitment to serve clients as immediately as possible and to be open when perhaps other businesses are closed to ensure we can develop word of mouth and recognition of our unique approach to therapy.

We are open from 3 p.m. to 3 a.m. Halifax time, 7 days a week.

This will offer a vast variety of open times for clients who are located in BC, as well as generous evening and weekend times for Atlantic Canada provinces.

Our same-day/48-hour availability and 3 p.m.–3 a.m. hours distinguish us as highly available. We offer a concrete, accessible service model available to all Canadians.

Contact

Please approach us with an email [email protected] or text 514 746 4673.

Our colleague intake process does not have to be so formal. If we are available, we will answer your call. When we see your text, we will answer as soon as we can.

We understand the gravity of the trust we are granted when we are participating in collaborative care for your client.

Please note, we attempt to ask each and every client who their family physician is and if they wish to participate in a collaborative treatment plan with you, so you can be informed of their psychotherapy care as part of their larger preventative or restorative treatment plan.

Thank you for your interest.

We hope to hear from you soon.

Summary

We offer specialized counselling services for those who are seeking a psychotherapy referral, therapist referral, or referral service in guidance and counselling.

If you are looking for a GP referral for counselling or a therapy referral service, you have come to the right place.

We have capacity to see your patient within the same day or within 24 hours if needed.

We offer office hours, evenings and weekend therapy sessions.

We are registered, licensed and insured to take clients across Canada.

If you are looking for a therapist referral, you can self-refer, meaning, just admit yourself or register yourself for therapy.

If you need a doctor's referral for approval for your insurance benefits, we can advocate with you if you wish.

Lee Park, RCT 25-002, MACP, BPsych Hons
Owner, Canada Online Therapy
www.canadaonlinetherapy.com
[email protected]
canadaonlinetherapy.janeapp.com
Call/text: (514) 746 4673
Fax: (800) 808 6629

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Canada Online Therapy Psychotherapy Referral Service.pdf

How much does a GP referral cost ?

For Canadian residents with a valid provincial health card like an MSI card in Nova Scotia, a GP referral to a specialist is completely free.
Basic medical services and their corresponding referral processes are fully covered by the public healthcare system.

However, there are a few exceptions where you might incur a fee:Uninsured Services: If you are not a Canadian resident or require a special, non-medical letter to bypass wait times, some providers may charge an administrative fee or the processing and writing of the paperwork.

Virtual Platforms & Private Clinics: If you do not have a family doctor and use a private virtual service or a private clinic to secure a referral, consultation and referral fees can range from $100 to $200.

Allied Health Professionals: You generally do not need a physician's referral to see allied health professionals like physiotherapists, chiropractors, or massage therapists unless your insurance plan requires you to request for a service.

If you choose to go to a doctor to request one anyway, they may charge a small processing fee. If you do not have a family doctor, usually you can ask for a referral from a walk-in clinic NP or from these primary healthcare services doctors.

Psychotherapy Scope of Practice

"Psychotherapy refers to planned and structured interventions aimed at influencing behaviour, mood and emotional patterns of reaction to different stimuli through verbal and non-verbal psychological means. Psychotherapy does not comprise the use of any biochemical or biological means."
- World Health Organization.

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The following is my interpretation (Lee Park) as a clinician of 16 years experience is that this definition means that psychotherapy is a way to help people by talking and interacting with them, using the technology of language, attachment, relational guidance:

Here's a breakdown:

"Planned and structured interventions": Psychotherapy is not casually chatting.
Psychotherapy is a deliberate clinical process based in evidence practice.
The psychotherapy we offer investigates as quickly as possible root causes to symptoms to treat these root causes with the latest art and science of psychotherapy.

"Influencing behaviour, mood and emotional patterns": The end goal for psychotherapy is to help motivate change, in a person's thoughts, feelings, and reactions. Usually this always involves developing a partnering relationship with awareness as the antidote to protect oneself from escalations from harmful cycles of behaviour. I find it helpful to ensure my clients are connected to their emotions, bodies and their cues, to encourage this relationship to become intimate.

"Verbal and non-verbal psychological means": The tools used in psychotherapy are communication, interaction, the relationship between the clinician and client and the synergy they create—words, actions, and the professional relationship itself.

"Does not comprise... any biochemical or biological means": This clearly distinguishes psychotherapy from medical treatments like prescription medication. Psychotherapy uses the client's innate resources to heal their own symptoms from understanding the context of how things began, developed, how they coped from stressors, where they believe they can change, to follow through in this change.

Our 15-year clinical perspective attempts to distill the World Health Organization definition of psychotherapy.
We transition the clinical definition into a human-centric philosophy, emphasizing active collaboration over passive listening.

1. Planned, Structured Interventions

Psychotherapy is a deliberate clinical process.

Psychotherapy provides targeted Clinical Focuses and Concerns: Psychotherapy bypasses casual conversation to systematically investigate the root causes of distress. Psychotherapy relies on evidence-based practice to apply targeted, structured techniques, exercises so clients can become their own therapist.

2. Influencing Behavior, Mood, and Emotional Patterns

Psychotherapy's core objective is to motivate tangible change.

Psychotherapy's clinical focus and foundation is developed from the therapeutic process fosters self-awareness. This tool of heightened awareness helps clients step back, interrupt harmful cycles, and actively guide their own emotional responses to liberate themselves from patterns that may have been developed from past trauma responses.

3. Verbal and Non-Verbal Psychological Means

Psychotherapy's primary technology is from communication and therapy alliance building.

Psychotherapy's Clinical Focus develops a secured therapeutic alliance, attachment support, and relational guidance act as the primary catalysts for healing. The synergy between clinician and client is often what drives progress. The clinician's unconditional positive regard is carried out from the client to themselves to the outer world.

4. Distinct from Biochemical Manipulations

Psychotherapy strictly relies on interweaving bio-psycho-social-medical methods.

Psychotherapy empowers clients to draw upon their own strength-based innate resources.
Through understanding how challenges developed, in the context they happened, we explore current coping mechanisms, and planning actionable changes, clients learn to self-heal adjacent to pharmaceuticals or decide to heal without them. We differentiate our practice by not only offering coping mechanisms but a solid understanding of how to process emotions, past trauma to ensure our clients are not only coping, but understand how to process challenges to heal from them.

Talk therapy is an effective tool for retraining emotional and behavioral habits.

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