FREE Counselling
We’re happy you’re here! Through a collaboration with Quadrangle NL and with support from Planned Parenthood NL, Mending Mondays offers free one-on-one counselling, mental health support, and system navigation for Two Spirit, trans, non-binary, intersex, and gender diverse folks and the people who love them across Newfoundland and Labrador. Sessions are available in-person, by phone, or by video!
What should I expect?
Booking opens at this link from Monday to Saturday each week for FREE counselling sessions on the following Monday.
Counselling sessions are free, offered Monday afternoons at 12:30, 2:00, and 3:30 pm and are booked on a first-come, first-served basis.
On the day of your session, the process usually takes about 1.5 hours, starting with intake with our TSNL staff. We will take about 10-15 minutes to go through intake and, together, we’ll explore what type of support could be most useful to you that day.
After intake, you’ll have up to one hour with your counsellor.
What can I talk about?
Two Spirit, trans, non-binary, intersex, and gender diverse folks and the people who love them can talk about any issues that are impacting their daily lives.
Common topics that folks bring to counselling include:
– personal, work, or financial stress
– emotional, physical, and mental health
– identity, gender, and sexuality exploration
– family and relationships
– grief and loss
– alcohol and drug use
– separation and divorce
– intimate partner violence/domestic violence
– challenges with executive dysfunction
– safety
– plus more
Note that this program is not a crisis service. If you are in crisis, please call 811 or text ‘WELLNESS’ to 741741 (for adults) or ‘HOME’ to 686868 (for youth).
Upcoming dates in 2024!
How do I sign up?
→ Every Monday we’re offering three free counselling appointments. Time slots are: 12:30pm, 2:00pm, and 3:30pm.
→ Booking opens between Monday and Saturday for a session on the Monday of the following week.
→ On our self-directed bookings page, click the upcoming Monday date to see which session times are still available to book.
→ Select your desired time and complete the brief form.
→ Once you’ve booked, you’ll receive an automated email confirming your appointment.
** Note that pressing “yes” or “no” in this automated email will only affect whether the appointment shows up in your personal calendar. We cannot see your response.
*** To reschedule or cancel your appointment, follow the Cancel or Reschedule links in that confirmation email where it says “Need to make changes to this event?”
→ We invite folks to schedule one session at a time and, if you enjoy your experience, we’d love to see you back for more in the future!
We aim to provide low-barrier services and we hope to make this program as accessible as possible. Please reach out at logan@tsnl.org or ally@tsnl.org if you require more info or if you think of anything we can do to better support you during booking or on the day of your appointment.
Looking for more information?
One session at a time.
Principles of our single session therapy model:
Trauma-informed: This program works from a trauma-informed perspective. We emphasize safety, trust, and a welcoming space. We invite collaboration. We emphasize our participants’ strengths and support in building skills for coping.
Harm reduction: We aim to offer safe, accessible, low barrier counselling. We deal with the immediate and whatever is present for you right now. This prevents the concern from growing and worsening, which serves to reduce harm over time.
Single focus: One issue or concern is focused on during your visit. Narrowing questions are used during intake with TSNL staff to determine the most important focus. Remember: you are not the problem, the problem is the problem.
Single session: The contents of each session stands alone. We welcome you to return to Mending Mondays more than once, while recognizing that the topics from any previous sessions with the same person aren’t considered. You and the counsellor will explore what’s going on for you that day, in the here and now.
Goal oriented: Each session will have a goal or hope, and you’ll leave with a tangible plan that is co-created with you. We emphasize that all change is generative, no matter how small the next step may be.
Connection: We believe that connection is a healing experience.
Getting here and parking
In-person sessions are held at 47 St. Clare Avenue, Planned Parenthood NL’s Sexual Health Centre, who are providing their low-barrier and accessible space for Two Spirit, trans, non-binary, and gender diverse community members participating in this counselling program.
Planned Parenthood NL is located at 47 St. Clare Ave
There are four parking spaces available at Planned Parenthood available. (See picture to the left)
Parking is NOT available at the Knights of Columbus lot without a permit. We want to prevent folks from getting ticketed when visiting!
There is also free curbside parking on the opposite side of the street
Metrobus route #2 stops down the street on LeMarchant Rd near St. Clare’s Hospital
Meet our Team!
Meet our Mending Mondays counsellor! Ally (she/her) is a Canadian Certified Counsellor whose background and lived experience inform her deep appreciation for neurodivergence, queer joy, sexuality- and gender-affirming care, emotional expression, advocacy, and accessible mental health support.
Ally’s therapeutic approach integrates somatic elements, person-centred, and narrative therapies; emphasizing fierce self-compassion, harm-reduction and self-regulation practices, and the reclamation of personal agency and pleasure. Ally invites continuous collaboration and emphasizes community connection in her work.
In her free time, Ally likes to go outdoors, connect with the people she loves, eat and drink delicious things, snuggle her dog and cats, and listen to music that is probably too loud (but doesn’t everything sound better loud?).
Meet our Mending Mondays intake worker! Logan (they/he) is the Quadrangle Trans Navigator and a board member with Trans Support NL.
How do I sign up?
Every Monday we’re offering three free counselling appointments: 12:30pm, 2:00pm, 3:30pm
Booking is open between Monday and Saturday of the week before. To book yours, click here to visit our self-directed booking page. Bookings are taken on a first-come, first-served basis.
Once you’ve booked, you’ll receive an automated email confirming your appointment. Note that pressing “yes” or “no” in this automated email will only affect whether the appointment shows up in your personal calendar. We cannot see your response.
To reschedule or cancel your appointment, follow the Cancel or Reschedule links in that confirmation email where it says “Need to make changes to this event?“
We look forward to connecting with you.
