Online therapy, grounded in science, shaped around you.

Secure video therapy anywhere in CanadaInsurance accepted, direct billing for many plansRegistered therapists, Canadian-owned

Online therapy support at The Dot Canada
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People come to us with all kinds of things.

Anxiety that won’t switch off. Burnout. A relationship stuck in the same argument. Grief, trauma, a new baby, nights without sleep.

Often what tips someone into booking is small. You snap at someone you love. You read the same email five times.

Some people arrive with a clear goal, others with “something has to change.” Each of our registered therapists has their own training and focus, so we suggest someone suited to what you describe.

Meet some of our therapists

A profile tells you how someone trained. A free 20-minute call tells you whether you want to keep talking to them.

Prefer to look on your own? Visit our therapists page and use the filters to narrow it down by what you’d like help with and how you’d like to work.

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Jessica Hynes

Registered Psychotherapist

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Tasha Breau

Registered Psychotherapist

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Anna Kiseleva

Registered Psychotherapist

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From a short form to your first session

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Tell us what's going on

Fill out a short form. It takes about three minutes. Tell us what brings you here and what matters to you in a therapist.

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We suggest one or two therapists

We use your answers to suggest one or two registered therapists you can meet.

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Meet on a free call

Talk with the therapist you choose on a free 20-minute video call. Ask how they work and see what it’s like to talk with them.

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Decide what’s next

If you want to keep going, book your first session. If not, tell us and we’ll suggest someone else.

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What we believe about therapy

Most people come to therapy to work on something specific. That’s where we start. Often the conversation also turns to what matters to you and how you want to live.

We see good therapy as both an art and a science. The science keeps us honest: approaches with evidence behind them, and therapists with real training. The art is in the relationship: a therapist who remembers what you said three weeks ago, notices when you change the subject, and has room for grief, humour and the bigger questions.

Our therapists won’t hand you someone else’s idea of a good life. They’ll help you work out what a better life looks like for you, then work toward it with you.

What we can help with

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Individual counselling
One-on-one sessions for anxiety, stress, grief, and things that don’t fit a label.

 

 

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Couples counselling

For the argument you keep having, and the distance that builds around it.

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EMDR therapy

A structured approach to trauma that doesn’t ask you to talk through every detail.

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Somatic therapy

Body-based work that pays attention to what you feel physically, as well as what you think.

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Brainspotting

Uses where you look to help you work through trauma and stress.

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Maternal mental health

Pregnancy, postpartum, loss, and the shift into parenting.

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CBT-I for sleep

A structured, evidence-based approach to insomnia.

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Burnout

For exhaustion that a weekend off doesn't touch.

What to expect when you start

How sessions work

Sessions are on secure video, so you can join from wherever you have some privacy: home, a parked car, an empty office at lunch. Individual sessions are 50 minutes and cost $150 to $200, depending on the therapist. Couples sessions are usually 60 or 75.

The first session

Mostly, you talk. Your therapist asks questions and listens. You get into what’s been going on and what you’d like to be different. By the end, you both have a sense of what to work on first. If it doesn’t feel like a fit, tell us and we’ll suggest someone else.

A steady rhythm

Studies suggest therapy tends to move faster when sessions are weekly, especially early on. You and your therapist set the schedule together, usually weekly or every two weeks.

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Why we’re called The Dot

In 1990, Voyager 1 looked back from about six billion kilometres away and photographed Earth as a single pale blue dot. Carl Sagan wrote about that picture: “That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.” Our name comes from it.

Seen from that far away, every life happens in the same small place, connected to everything around it. Often, what brings someone to therapy is tied to something beyond themselves: a person, a hope, something they want, something they haven’t finished.

We treat everyone who comes to us with dignity. We treat mistakes as part of learning. And we look for progress you can actually notice in your week.