BRIDGEEarly stage prototype
Affordable counselling in Victoria

Find a counsellor who fits your life.

BRIDGE lets you compare counsellors by price, availability, language, and approach. Start with a free 20 minute new client consultation to see if the fit feels right.

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No referral needed. Browse before creating an account.

Start with what matters

Counselling that works around your life.

Finding support should not mean guessing about price, waiting months, or settling for the first name on a list. BRIDGE puts the practical details together so you can make a more informed choice.

Available sooner

See who can meet with you before you commit.

Browse real availability and start with a free 20 minute new client consultation. The goal is a suitable counselling appointment in less than one week.

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Flexible access

Online or in person

Choose the format that works for your location, schedule, privacy, and comfort.

Clear choices

Language and cultural fit

Compare languages, experience, counselling approaches, and the communities each counsellor understands.

Affordable by design

A price you can plan around

Choose from visible price bands starting at $30, with no referral needed to begin browsing.

How BRIDGE works

From browsing to a booked consultation.

You stay in control at every step. BRIDGE helps you compare options and keeps the account step until after you choose a time.

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Browse counsellors

Compare provider status, experience, language, approach, session format, price band, and current availability.

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Book a new client consultation

Select a counsellor, choose phone or online, and book a free 20 minute conversation to introduce yourselves and consider the fit.

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Create your account and confirm

Sign up or log in after choosing a time. Review the details, enter the confirmation code, and see the booking in your dashboard.

A simpler first step

Open the door to support.

Browse counsellors without a referral and see who is available for a free 20 minute new client consultation.

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Choose a counsellor.

Browse sample profiles. After you choose someone, their available 20 minute consultation times will appear.

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Preferred language: English
Location: Victoria, BC
Appointment reminders: Email

A cooperative for better access

BRIDGE is being built as a cooperative.

BRIDGE Mental Health Services Cooperative is being developed as an early stage, democratic, worker owned enterprise focused on improving access to timely and affordable mental health care in Victoria.

What BRIDGE does

The practical details, made clearer.

BRIDGE is designed to help people understand their options before making a commitment. Counsellor information, cost, availability, and ways to connect are presented together.

Clear information

Compare credentials, supervision status, price bands, languages, format, approach, and availability.

Direct access

Browse counsellors and request a new client consultation without a doctor’s referral.

Timely options

BRIDGE is working toward suitable counselling appointments being available within seven days.

Choice and fit

Choose independently or use an optional questionnaire for suggestions. The final choice remains yours.

How care begins

Meet before committing.

A new client consultation is not a counselling session. It is a free 20 minute phone or online conversation that allows the patient and counsellor to introduce themselves, discuss how the counsellor works, and determine whether the fit feels appropriate.

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Browse

Compare counsellors, price bands, availability, language, format, and approach.

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Consult

Choose a counsellor and book a free 20 minute new client consultation.

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Confirm

Create an account only after selecting an available consultation time.

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Choose what is next

Continue with that counsellor, meet someone else, or decide not to proceed.

Who provides care

Credentials and supervision stay visible.

Registered practitioners and students completing supervised clinical training can appear together, while their professional status remains easy to identify.

Registered counsellors

Identity, credentials, professional standing, insurance, and practice readiness will be checked before publication.

Supervised students

A prominent Supervised student label will explain training status and supervision.

Clear responsibilities

Defined roles and boundaries.

BRIDGE supports informed choice and manages the service experience. It is not an emergency service and does not replace the professional responsibility of the counsellor providing care.

BRIDGE is responsible for

  • Provider screening and clear status labels
  • Privacy and account security
  • Booking, payment, cancellation, credit, and refunds
  • Clear urgent-support notices

Counsellors are responsible for

  • Working within their professional scope
  • Providing care and attending booked sessions
  • Following ethical, documentation, and supervision requirements
  • Responding appropriately to patient risk
How BRIDGE is being built

Mission before ownership.

BRIDGE is being developed as a democratic, worker owned company. The public purpose remains straightforward: improve access to mental health care. Worker ownership is the internal structure intended to keep the people operating the service involved in its decisions.

Starting in Victoria

BRIDGE plans to learn with the local community and hopes to approach educational institutions, healthcare organizations, and community services about responsible referral, training, and supervised placement opportunities.

Partnership status

These relationships are goals, not confirmed partnerships. BRIDGE will name organizations as partners only after a formal relationship exists.

Founders

The people starting BRIDGE.

BRIDGE is currently being developed by Pedro Sixel and Bernardo Vainer Roisenberg. Founder biographies and photography will be added as the project develops.

Pedro Sixel
Bernardo Vainer Roisenberg

Interested in BRIDGE?

Patients, counsellors, instructors, and potential partners will be able to contact the founders here. The public email is being configured.

Contact details coming soon
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Counsellor onboarding

Build your application one step at a time.

Tell BRIDGE about your professional status, provide the documents needed for verification, build the profile patients will see, and review everything before submission.

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Your account

Start with the contact information BRIDGE will use during the review.