Mental Health Supports

Provides free and immediate mental health counselling to help with anxiety, as well as life events causing stress or other mental health issues. Appointments are on a first-come, first-served basis, but visitors will be connected with a counsellor as soon as possible. Sessions are up to 60 minutes with a registered mental health therapist who may also make referrals to other mental health services.Locations and times:

• Charlottetown - Provincial Addictions Treatment Facility:
  • Clinic is for addictions or substance use related concerns
  • Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday 7am-4pm (please arrive by 3pm) and Tuesday 7am-6pm (please arrive by 5pm)
• Charlottetown - at 18 Queen Street, Suite 106 (Former location James B. Jenkins Center which was a replacement of Richmond Centre):
  • Clinic is for mental health concerns
  • Clinic is for all ages
  • Monday , Wednesday, Friday 7:30am-4pm and Tuesday and Thursday 7:30am-6pm
  • Saturday and Sunday 12pm-4pm
• Charlottetown - McGill Centre:
  • Clinic is for mental health concerns
  • Clinic is for ages 16 years and older
  • Saturday and Sunday 12pm-4pm
• Summerside:
• Clinic is for mental health, addictions, or substance use related concerns
• Clinic is for all ages
• Monday , Wednesday, Friday 8am-4pm
• Tuesday and Thursday 8am-8pm (Please arrive by 7pm)
• Montague:
  • For mental health concerns: Tuesday 10am-12pm and Thursday 2pm-8pm (Please arrive by 7pm)
  • For addictions or substance use related concerns: Monday 10am-12pm
• O'Leary:
  • Clinic is for mental health, addictions, or substance use related concerns
  • Call for an appointment
• Alberton:
  • Clinic is for mental health, addictions, or substance use related concerns
  • Call for an appointment

Provides clinics for children and youth including:

• The IWK Youth Psychosis Team
• The IWK Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) Clinic
• The IWK Developmental Pediatrics Clinic
• The IWK Eating Disorders Team
• The IWK Bipolar Specific Care Clinic and more

• Relationships
• Sex and fertility
• Daily life
• Decisions
• Self

Provides a support network that offers bullied youths assistance via telephone, email, and text(SMS). Support includes:

• Identify problems and solve them
• One-on-one conversations with bullied youth and their families
• One-on-one conversations with bullies, their parents, teachers, guidance counsellors, principals, and school board staff, local social service, and when it's necessary local police.

• Individual therapy
• Couples and partners therapy
• Sex therapy
• Gender affirming assessments

Professional counsellors are available to help young people deal with concerns, large or small, by telephone or live chat. Examples of these concerns include:

• Bullying
• Violence and abuse
• Housing
• Legal aid
• Sexual health
• Issues related to sexual orientation and gender identity
• Suicide

Kids Help Phone counsellors can also provide information and referral to local services. The service is free, anonymous, and confidential.

Provides an 8-week cognitive behaviour educational program to help individuals learn skills to control, face, deal with anxiety, and change negative ways of thinking and behaving.

Offered through weekly telephone support through one-on-one coaching or group-based programming with other adults who share similar challenges. A handbook or online access to written material, positive notes, videos, trackers, supporter information and audio is provided.

Online list of registered psychological professionals in Epekwitk / PEI. Includes psychologists, psychological candidates, psychological associates, psychological associate candidates, and professional psychology corporations.