Client Resources

Support, information, and community resources

This page brings together crisis contacts, specialized supports, addiction resources, and educational materials that may be helpful between sessions or when additional support is needed.

Urgent Support

Crisis and urgent support resources

If immediate support is needed, the following services may help connect you with crisis counselling, urgent assessment, or short-term support.

S.A.F.E.R. — Vancouver Coastal Health

Works with individuals at risk for suicide as well as their family and friends.

Vancouver General Hospital
Outpatient Psychiatry Team, Ground Floor
715 West 12th Avenue
Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9

  • Available 24 hours a day, seven days a week
  • Phone: 604-879-9251

S.A.F.E.R. 24-Hour Intake & Assessment Centre

Vancouver General Hospital
Outpatient Psychiatry Team, Ground Floor
715 West 12th Avenue
Vancouver, BC V5Z 1M9

  • Available 24 hours a day, seven days a week
  • Telephone: (604) 675-3700
  • Alternate line: (604) 875-4794

Vancouver Crisis Centre

24/7 crisis counselling phone service.

www.crisiscentre.bc.ca

  • Crisis line: 604-872-3311
  • Toll free: 1-866-661-3311
  • Suicide Crisis Line: 1-800-SUICIDE (784-2433)
Community Support

Specialized supports

Specific resources for women

Women Against Violence Against Women (WAVAW)

Rape crisis line.

  • Available 24 hours a day, seven days a week
  • Lower Mainland: 604-255-6344
  • Toll free: 1-877-392-7583

www.wavaw.ca

Reproductive Mental Health

BC Children’s Hospital

Crisis line:

Specific resources for men

BC Society for Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse

A non-profit organization providing counselling and therapeutic services for men who have experienced sexual abuse.

Phone: 604-682-6482

www.bc-malesurvivors.com

Addiction Support

Addiction and substance use resources

Pacifica Treatment Centre

In-patient substance use and addiction treatment.

Phone: 604-872-5517

www.pacificatreatment.ca

Central Access — Detox Referral Line

Assists individuals with finding detox facilities and addiction housing services.

Toll free: 1-866-658-1221

Insite

Supervised injection site.

139 East Hastings Street
Vancouver, BC V6A 1N5

(604) 687-7483

Open seven days a week from 9 a.m. to 3 a.m., and 24 hours on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday during the week that social assistance cheques are distributed.

Powell Street Getaway

Supervised injection site.

528 Powell Street
Vancouver, BC V6A 1G5

(604) 255-7026

Open seven days a week from 8 a.m. to 11 p.m.

Learning and Support Tools

Useful online resources

Books

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

LGBT

  • 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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Next Step

Make an appointment

If you would like support working through what you are facing, you can book an appointment with Nexus Counselling Services.