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This guide brings together urgent contacts, specialized community services, substance use supports, trusted learning resources, and selected books and tools.

Nexus Counselling Services does not provide emergency or crisis-response services. Use the urgent-support routes below when immediate help or a rapid assessment is needed.

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Urgent Support

Help for an emergency or mental health crisis

Choose the route that best matches the situation. These services are external to Nexus Counselling Services.

Immediate danger

Call 9-1-1

Call emergency services or go to the nearest emergency department when safety is at immediate risk.

Call 9-1-1
Mental health crisis in BC

BC Mental Health & Crisis Response

Call 310-6789 without an area code for crisis support in British Columbia.

Call 310-6789
Non-life-threatening mental health or substance use concerns in Vancouver

Access and Assessment Centre at Vancouver General Hospital

The Access and Assessment Centre helps Vancouver residents and families access mental health and substance use intake, assessment, crisis intervention, and short-term treatment.

Call 604-675-3700 View official service page

Contact details were reviewed on August 4, 2026. External services can change their hours, eligibility, locations, or intake procedures without notice.

Resource Directory

Browse by the kind of support you need

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Urgent-support contacts above are always visible and are not affected by these filters.

Specialized Support

Community services for specific experiences

Sexual violence support

Salal Sexual Violence Support Centre

Salal, previously known as WAVAW, provides crisis and ongoing support for survivors of sexualized violence.

Lower Mainland crisis line
604-255-6344
National toll-free
1-877-392-7583
Availability
24-hour crisis and information line
Visit Salal
Support for men

BC Society for Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse

A non-profit organization providing counselling, victim services, information, and support for male survivors of sexual abuse.

General inquiries
[email protected]
Visit the organization
Substance Use Support

Treatment, detox referral, and harm reduction

Treatment and recovery

Pacifica Treatment Centre

Vancouver-based substance use treatment and recovery programmes, including information about admissions and treatment options.

24-hour admissions line
1-866-446-0668
Vancouver office
604-872-5517
Visit Pacifica
Withdrawal-management referral

Access Central — Detox Referral Line

Vancouver Coastal Health’s screening and referral line for inpatient and outpatient withdrawal-management services.

Current listed hours
9:00 a.m. to 7:45 p.m., seven days a week
View official service page
Supervised consumption

Insite

A Vancouver Coastal Health supervised-consumption service that also provides overdose prevention, drug checking, and connections to health care.

Address
139 East Hastings Street, Vancouver
View Insite details
Supervised consumption

Powell Street Getaway

A supervised-consumption, overdose-prevention, and drug-checking service in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

Address
526 Powell Street, Vancouver
View official service page
Learning & Navigation

Mental health and trauma information

HelpStartsHere

A BC Ministry of Health directory and information hub for mental health and substance use support.

Browse HelpStartsHere

Here to Help

BC-based information, self-help resources, skills, and navigation for mental health and substance use.

Visit Here to Help

Anxiety Canada

Evidence-informed anxiety resources, self-help tools, courses, and practical plans.

Visit Anxiety Canada

Canadian Mental Health Association, BC Division

Mental health promotion, recovery-oriented programmes, services, and information.

Browse programmes and services
Books & Tools

Selected reading and self-guided resources

Trauma and sexual abuse

  • Safe Passage to Healing by Chrystine Oksana
  • The Courage to Heal by Ellen Bass and Laura Davis

Trauma and recovery

  • Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman
  • The Body Remembers by Babette Rothschild
  • The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk

Veteran reintegration

  • Once a Warrior, Always a Warrior by Charles W. Hoge

LGBTQ+

  • The Velvet Rage by Alan Downs

Dissociation

  • Got Parts? by ATW

Couples and relationships

  • Hold Me Tight by Dr. Sue Johnson

Daughters of abusive mothers

  • The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller
  • Will I Ever Be Good Enough? by Karyl McBride
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External services can change

Nexus Counselling Services does not operate or control the external organizations listed on this page. A listing is provided for practical navigation and does not guarantee availability, eligibility, suitability, cost, or service quality.

Confirm current hours, intake requirements, locations, programme details, and privacy practices directly with the provider. Please report a broken or outdated listing to [email protected].

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