Moving Forward Counselling Services
Healthcare Providers, Mental Health - Adult, Mental Health - Child & Youth, and Multicultural Services
Provided by Moving Forward Family Services Society
Offers free short-term and affordable long-term counselling options to underserved communities across Canada via in-person, telephone, and online platforms.
Moving forward offers counselling programs and various support groups to anyone across Canada. In-person services are available in Surrey, while virtual and telephone services are available province wide.
Moving Forward is a counselling service that is not funded by the Health Authority, MCFD, Corrections, K-12 Education, or Post-Secondary institutions; therefore, it operates on cost recovery. At any given time, 200 or more fully insured and supervised interns across Canada, who have a background in counselling or social work, deliver low-cost and free services as practicum students or volunteers. 300+ Registered practitioners (former interns) offering sliding scale ($50 if client is low income, not using insurance).
Services are for those who are not eligible for other services in the community (or face long waitlists) and/or who cannot afford traditional counselling service rates. Moving Forward can also refer clients to private fee-based clinical counsellors who provide sliding services to those who cannot afford traditional private therapy rates.
Offices are in Newton (Surrey) and virtual services are provided through a secured platform.
Costs:
- Free and Low cost, ranging from $50 to $75, are available across Canada
- Counselling with Clinical Counsellors for $50 (for those who are low income, do not have insurance) for individuals with no waits
- Counselling with Clinical Counsellors $75 for couples and families ( (for those who are low income, do not have insurance) with no waits
- If cost is a barrier, free and lower fee services with interns on practicums are available; the wait time can be up to 6 weeks, but typically they try to operate without waits. In exceptional circumstances, fees can be further reduced or waived.
The program provides the following options for counselling:
- Counselling with a Clinical Counsellor ($50 individual /$75 for couples and families). If you chose this option, please be advised that services are provided by the Counsellor (not Moving Forward Family Services (MFFS)); MFFS simply provides the referral to the Counsellor. All subsequent correspondence should be with the Counsellor, and any Client-related material is kept by that Counsellor.
- $20 services with fully insured, supervised Interns on practicums. Note that there may be limited services available on evenings and weekends for this service.
- Services for less than $20 with fully insured, supervised Interns on practicums. *Note that these services are only available during the weekdays, between 9 am and 4 pm
*If you have extended health and/or other coverage, your fees will first be applied to your insurer at standard rates.
The following groups and coaching services are available for free:
- Life Skills Mental Health and Wellness Psycho-Education: Offers free one-on-one life psycho-educational sesions over the telephone or online.
- Mindfulness Mental Health and Wellness Psycho-Education: Offers free one-on-one mindfulness psycho-education sessions over the telephone or online.
- Healthy Relationships Mental Health and Wellness Psycho-Education: Offers free one-on-one, psycho-educational coaching over the telephone or online.
- Parent Mental Health and Wellness Psycho-Education: Offers free one-to-one life psycho-educational parenting sessions over the telephone or online.
- Substance Use Mental Health and Wellness Psycho-Education: Offers free one-to-one substance use management sessions over the telephone or online.
- Women's Group: Offers free virtual group counselling on stress, mental health, substance abuse, relationships, and anger. Service is offered in English, Punjabi and other languages (email to inquire)
-Men's Group: Offers free group counselling on stress, mental health, substance abuse, relationships, and anger. Service is offered in English, Punjabi and other languages (email to inquire).
Multi-lingual Services:
- Reduced cost & Free services with waits of up to 8 -20 weeks are in English, Punjabi, Hindi, Mandarin, Cantonese, Farsi and Arabic
- Pay What you Can’ with waits up to 4 weeks are in English, Punjabi, Hindi, Mandarin, Cantonese, Farsi and Arabic
- Current services at $50 with a Clinical Counsellor and no waits are in English, Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Khmer, Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese, Farsi, Arabic, Tagalog and Spanish.
The program approaches counseling through the following techniques (but are not limited to):
- Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT)
- Behavioural therapy
- Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) (including DBT)
- Cognitive therapy
- Existential therapy
- Gestalt therapy
- Person-centered therapy (also known as “client-centred” counselling)
- Solution-focused brief therapy
- Family/Systemic therapy
- Group therapy
- Integrative
- Interpersonal therapy
- Mindfulness
- Trauma-Informed Therapies
- Narrative Therapy
- Adlerian
- Satir
- EMDR (minimum fees apply)
- Somatic (minimum fees apply)
877-485-5025
Public email: hello@movingforward.help
Website: https://movingforward.help
#101, 12827 76th Avenue, Surrey, British Columbia, V3W 2V3
This address is for in-person services & mail.
Service is available in Arabic, Bengali, Cantonese, English, Farsi, Hindi, Korean, Mandarin, Punjabi, Spanish, Tagalog, and Urdu.
Cost: No cost or Fees may apply
Referral options:
- Self-referral
- Family physician or nurse practitioner referral
- Health professional referral
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Service area: Province-wide + show cities
Service Types Provided
Healthcare Providers
Mental Health - Adult
- Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
- Depression - Adult
- Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)
- Family Mental Health Services
- Grief / Bereavement
- Multicultural Mental Health
- Suicide Prevention
- Counselling - Free or Low Cost: Family Counselling, Online Counselling, Relationship Counselling, and Telephone Counselling
- Anxiety - Adult: Mindfulness
Mental Health - Child & Youth
Multicultural Services
Ways to Access
- Provided 1:1 in-person
- Provided by phone
- Provided in a group in-person
- Provided online: email / video / on-line
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