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Adult Addiction Services
Individual Counselling is community addiction treatment available to individuals 12 years of age and up who are concerned about their own or someone else’s substance use. Addiction services are client-centred, acknowledging that people have the right to make their own choices while being treated with respect, compassion and dignity in a safe, non-judgmental environment.
Our counseling sessions explore family and substance use history, triggers, coping skills, and strategies. We employ evidence-based approaches like CBT, DBT, and MI. Goals, whether abstinence, moderation, or harm reduction, are set by you.
Attendance frequency is based on your needs. We offer phone, video, or in-person sessions. Our staff are registered psychotherapists or social workers in Ontario.
Registration is direct – no medical referral needed. Program selection occurs during intake
To schedule an Intake appointment in the Barrie, Orillia, Innisfil, and Collingwood areas, please dial:
📞 705-726-5033 or ☎️ 1-800-461-4319 (Toll-Free)
For Midland, please reach out to:
Midland – 705-526-0393
For addiction support in South Simcoe (such as Bradford, Cookstown, Alliston, Tottenham, and Beeton), please contact Addiction Services Central Ontario at 1-800-263-2288
A listing of specialized services is as follows:
| Brief Service (available for Barrie area only) 4-6 individual counselling sessions (max 6) for individuals 25yrs+, utilizing a strength-based, client-centred, solution-focused brief therapy modality that focuses on solutions to presenting issues not the origins of the issue. (more information) | ||
| Group Therapy: Group therapy support programs for adults ages 25 + (more information) | ||
| Opioid Treatment Program: The Opioid Treatment program provides individual counselling and support to anybody concerned about their use of opioids or who is on Opioid Agonist Treatment. (more information) | ||
| Umbrellas Program: Umbrellas provides self-referred community-based counselling and support for women who are pregnant, or mothers of children 6 years of age and under who are concerned about their own, or someone else’s substance use. (more information) | ||
| Gambling, Gaming and Technology Program: Individual community-based counselling available to individuals (12 years of age and up) who are concerned about their own or someone else’s gambling, video gaming or use of technology. (more information) | ||
| Withdrawal Management: Community-based support for individuals with personal or doctor-assisted substance withdrawal goals. (more information) | ||
| Residential Treatment Referrals: We provide assessment, referral, and navigational support for individuals who are interested in attending a residential program to help support their substance use goals. (more information) | ||
| Day Treatment Program: A collaboration between CMHA Simcoe County Branch, CMHA Muskoka Parry Sound and Mamaway Wiidokdaadwin, the Day Treatment program provides a community-based group treatment option for people looking to address their substance use. Participants should already have identified a substance use goal and be working toward it. (more information) | ||
| Outreach: In Barrie, an Outreach counsellor meets individuals in the community at shelters and other common points of congregation to minimize barriers to accessing treatment. (more information) | ||
| Walking/ Street Outreach: In Orillia, staff support the Gilbert Centre with walking outreach proving supplies for safer drug use, naloxone kits, condoms, food and clothing (when available) at shelter sites, other common points of congregation and generally in the downtown area on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 11-2 pm. (more information) |