Counselling

Thunder Bay has wide array of counseling services available city wide. The following are places students can go if they ever need help.

Thunder Bay Counselling Centre

Formerly Family Services Thunder Bay, this service has been providing community based solutions to individuals, couples, and families for over 50 years. They offer both personal and workplace support to help people make positive changes in their lives.

The Community Service division of the centre offers confidential counselling solutions that are responsive to the needs and life challenges of people living in Thunder Bay and area. If is their goal to empower individuals, couples and famillies so that they may lead confident lives in a strong and healthy community.

For more information about the Thunder Bay Counselling Centre, please contact them at:

(807) 684 - 1880 or email: community@tbaycounselling.com

Walk-in Counselling

Thunder Bay's Walk-in Counselling Clinic provides immediate single-session counselling services to children, youth, and adults on a first come, first served basis.

They can help individuals, couples, parents, and families deal with a variety of issues.

  • Abuse
  • Family Conflict
  • Parent/Child Conflict
  • Teen Issues
  • Child Behaviour
  • Bereavement Issues
  • Depression and Anxiety
  • Substance Use
  • Relationship Issues
  • Budgeting and Debt Management
  • Seperation and Divorce
  • Stress
  • School Problems

For more information, please visit:

http://www.tbaycounselling.com/pdf/walkin.pdf, or phone (807) 684 - 1880 or (807) 343 - 5000

Native Women's Crisis Home

The Beendigen's Native Women's Crisis Home provides a safe shelter for women and their children who are seeking refuge from women abuse. The Crisis home is stagged by Rediential Counsellors at all times and Children's programs are available during weekdays.

The Crisis Home is able to accommodate women and children for up to six weeks, and is open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It is wheelchair accessible.

Resident Counsellors provide support and safety planning. Referrals are made to other agencies depending on their needs. Individual and group sessions are offered around the area of women abuse, budgeting, parenting, addictions, life skills; and these are carried out on a daily basis. Comprehensive community support is available to women needing ongoing assistance when leaving Beendigen Crisis Home.

Admission is based on the availability of space, and if full, every effort  is made to utilize other crisis homes in Thunder Bay and surrounding area.

Walk in Counselling is provided at Beendigen Crisis Home every Friday from 9:00am -12:00pm on 112 Ontario Street.

For any further information, please call any of the following numbers:

Crisis Line: (807) 346-4357 (HELP) or Toll Free at 1-888-200-9997

Contact: Melanie at (807) 344-9579 Ext 22 or melanie@beendigen.com 

TBSASA Counselling & Crisis Centre

The Thunder Bay Sexual Assault/Sexual Abuse Counselling and Crisis Centre is a non-profit, incorporated organization, governed by a community Board of Directors. They are a standalone agency, indepedent of hospital, courts and police.

The agency provides:

  • 24 Hour Crisis Intervention
  • Counselling
  • Client Advocacy: information, accompaniment, and preparation through the criminal justice system, assistance with Criminal Injusty Compensation claims, Victim Impact Statements

Services are provided to any person of the ages fourteen years and older who has been sexually assaulted/sexually abused/sexually harassed (recently and in the psat) by an acquaintance, stranger, friend, or present/past partner, or other. Information and support are also provided to non-offending parent(s), family members, and partners of the victim/survivor.

All information recieved is confedential. No information is shared without the concest of the client. There is no fee for the services offered.

Contact them at:

(807) 344-4502 - Crisis Line

(807)345 - 0894 - Business Line

or email: tbcounselling@tbsasa.org

 Thunder Bay Indian Friendship Centre

In response to the increasing number of Native people moving to Thunde rBay, the Friendship Centre was established in 1964, After meeting in basements for a time, a shack was rented which served as a meeting place for the many young Native people in town. Its staff was entirely volunteers, yet their energies managed to develop the Centre as both a referral agency and an outlet for youth programs.

  • Aboriginal Alcohol and Drug Worker Programme
  • Aboriginal Youth Empowerment Programme
  • Aboriginal Healing and Wellness Programme
  • Aboriginal CAPC Healthy Babies Healthy Children Programme
  • AkweGo - Urban Aboriginal Childrens Programme
  • Community Support FASD, Child Nutrition
  • Community Justice Programmme
  • Family-Comibined Courtwork Programme
  • Life Long Care, Diabetes Programme
  • Native Alternative Literary School Programme
  • OFIFC-GREAT Initiative
  • Urban Multipurpose Aboriginal Youth Centres Initiative
  • Wahsnabin Youth Recreation / Prevention Programme
  • Healthy Lifestyles Fitness and Nutrition Education

Conact information:

Phone: (807) 345-5840

401 N. Cumberland Street, Thunder Bay ON, P7A 4P7