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Mental Health Services

Mental Health Services

24-hour Crisis Line (for after hours):1-888-893-8333 or 1-855-310-COPE

Main contact line: 705-434-5140

To complete a Counselling and Psychiatric Consultation Referral Form, please download the form below.
Counselling and Psychiatric Consultation Referral Form

To view our current Mary McGill Mental Health Program Group Counselling Calendar, click the button below:
View Group Counselling Calendar

About the Mary McGill Community Mental Health Program

The Mary McGill Community Mental Health Program (MMCMHP) opened in 1980 after a psychiatric nurse recognized the need for dedicated mental health services within the community. This nurse was Mary McGill, who was dedicated to ensuring that local community members in south Simcoe had mental health services close to home. She advocated for the program for two years before getting the green light to open the Community Mental Health Centre at Stevenson Memorial Hospital and became the program's coordinator. Sadly, Mary was diagnosed with breast cancer and in 1987, lost her life to the disease. The Centre has then renamed the Mary McGill Community Mental Health Centre in honour of its founder.

The MMCMHP provides individual and group services offered using a variety of modalities including cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) and mindfulness meditation approaches. The main focus of counselling is identifying goals for change to improve coping abilities and increase skills training to achieve these goals.

The MMCMHP is a separately funded program of the Ministry of Health; working collaboratively with Stevenson Memorial Hospital to provide community-based mental health and psychiatric services, focusing on providing timely and accessible services for the community.

Staff

The Mental Health Team at Stevenson Memorial Hospital is comprised of social workers, nurses, and psychiatrists who work in a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary outpatient environment driving a holistic approach that promotes recovery, health, and wellness.

Services available

Adult mental health – ages 16+

Individual Counselling:

  • Focus on self-directed goals of recovery and personal change.
  • One-on-one collaboration between client and counsellor to identify areas of concern, and the skills required to achieve lasting and positive change.
  • Physician referral or self-referral.
  • The course of treatment is usually limited to 8 sessions, or as identified by the clinician.

Group counselling:
  • Skills-based/psychotherapy groups
  • Clients are referred based on clinician recommendation or self-referral
  • Clients often complete a pre-group meeting with a facilitator to determine the appropriateness of the group
  • Groups are closed once they begin
  • Offered on a rotating basis, and typically runs from 8 to 12 sessions

Consultative Psychiatric Services

  • Physician referral required.
  • Assessment and diagnosis (if necessary) upon referral from a family physician.
  • Consultative in nature, follow-up in terms of medication and treatment to be completed by a family physician.
  • Psychiatry is available two afternoons per week (by appointment only).

Quick Response (Crisis Services)

  • Provide support to the Emergency Department for clients in crisis
  • Quick response crisis worker available from 0900-1900 (9 a.m. to 7 p.m.) 7 days a week.
  • Crisis workers can provide follow-up
  • Quick response times
  • Provides assessment for potential transfers to Schedule 1 facility (Provides follow-up after release from Schedule 1 facility).
  • Urgent response services: On-site crisis services are available 7 days a week.

Service Access

Physician referral for psychiatry; Self-referral for same/next day crisis, counselling and group.

Catchment: Simcoe County, New Tecumseth (Alliston, Beeton, Tottenham), Baxter, Angus, Cookstown, Innisfil.

Collaborative Program Partnerships

  • Stevenson Memorial Hospital
  • Southlake Regional Health Centre
  • Waypoint Centre for Mental Health Care – Penetanguishene
  • Ontario Provincial Police – Nottawasaga Detachment
  • Matthew’s House Hospice
  • Krassman Centre
  • Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) – York and South Simcoe
  • Athena’s Sexual Assault Counselling Centre

Additional Resources