Counselling Resource Libraries

Freedom from Self-Harm: Overcoming Self-Injury with Skills from DBT and other Treatment
Self-Help Worksheet or Module
This workbook offers a guide to stopping self-injury by providing facts about self-harm, corrects common myths, and provides self-soothing techniques you can begin using right away for regulating difficult or overwhelming emotions.

Managing ADHD
Worksheet
The Managing ADHD worksheet describes five key skills that can often help those with ADHD. The skills include: creating structure, setting aside time for relationships, staying organized, creating the right environment, and living a healthy lifestyle. Each section describes the importance of the skill, and tips to implement it successfully.

Tips for Managing ADHD
Worksheet
The Tips for Managing ADHD worksheet provides an overview of common strategies for handling adult ADHD, such as creating a daily schedule, breaking down large tasks, and identifying procrastination behaviours.

Urge Surfing Handout
PDF Handout
Urge surfing is a technique for managing your unwanted behaviours. Rather than giving in to an urge, you will ride it out, like a surfer riding a wave. After a short time, the urge will pass on its own.

Calm Harm
App
This app provides tools to help you “ride the wave” in a customizable way that you can later rate; available in Google Play and the Apple App Store.

Mindshift CBT - Anxiety - Canada
App
Mindshift is a free, CBT/psyco-educational app, specific for anxiety, that is designed to be a portable coach - offering constructive coping strategies in a variety of different situations. Available in Google Play and the Apple App Store.

MoodTools - Depression Aid 
App
A free, Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) App for helping depression; includes information, therapy options, videos, guided meditations, and a safety plan ("BeSafe" section can be downloaded as a separate app if preferred) - check it out! Available in Google Play and the Apple App Store.

Good From Grief
App
An award-winning App that includes a grief support network, as well as coping strategies specific to a variety of grief circumstances (i.e. workplace, holiday, pet, health, death, etc.). Available in Google Play, Amazon, and coming soon to the Apple App Store.

Recovery Record
App
This app records your moods, eating habits, and thoughts for you to compare how your mental health fluctuates with your food intake. 

Rise Up + Recover
App
This app allows you to track your thoughts and eating habits and allows you to monitor your own progress and export information as PDFs to share with professional support staff.