For veterans of the Canadian Armed Forces & the RCMP
The stress, the anger, the drinking, uncertainty, the loss, confusion, the no sleep, the outbursts, the diligence, and maybe even the paranoia. Yet even with all of that, it can feel like nobody gets you. We do.
Veterans with mental health issues get psychotherapy free once they're approved by VAC. Find out today whether you're approved — and if you're not, we'll walk you step-by-step to get approved within one business day.
CAF & RCMP veterans across Canada · Virtual, or in person in Toronto · Coverage verified with your K number before your first session
CAF & RCMP
Reg force, reserves, Depot-trained members and veterans
Canada-wide
Secure video from Esquimalt to Gagetown to a rural detachment
VAC covered
Direct billing to Medavie Blue Cross once your K number checks out
10+ years
Our founding & lead clinician has been working with trauma, anxiety & depression for over a decade.
What you might be carrying
A lot of veterans hold back because someone else had it worse — the guy who did three tours, the member who took the round. So the training accident at Wainwright, the harassment nobody actioned, the postings that cost you every friendship, the years of nights in a two-member detachment, the medical release you didn't ask for: all filed under "not bad enough" and left to rot. It doesn't stay filed. It shows up as insomnia, a short fuse, a marriage running on fumes and a quiet conviction that you're the problem.
Army, navy, air force. RCMP general duty, federal policing, highway patrol. Regular, reserve, class B, civilian member. Cpl or CWO, MCpl or Staff Sergeant. Afghanistan, Bosnia, Op LENTUS, or never left Canada — if service changed how you live, that's enough to be here.
For veterans of the Canadian Armed Forces and the RCMP approved for psychotherapy through VAC. Not approved yet? Send your details and you'll get help navigating it.
Back to the wall in the food court. Scanning the parking lot at Canadian Tire. Sleeping in ninety-minute pieces the way you did on rotation or on nights. Your body learned a standard in uniform and nobody ever signed it off duty.
For some it's a convoy, an IED, a body recovery. For others it's a sudden death on a rural highway, a domestic you couldn't fix, a fatal at a level crossing, a search that ended the wrong way. Trauma doesn't care whether it happened overseas or twenty minutes from your own house.
Zero to furious over a spilled drink, then sitting in the truck afterwards wondering who you've become. Your partner reads your face before you say a word. The kids have learned which nights to stay upstairs.
Out-clearance, red serge in a garment bag, a 3B release you never asked for. The team is gone, the standard is gone, the pace is gone. Civilian work feels like a hobby and nobody at the new job speaks the language.
What you did, what you couldn't do, what the chain of command or the detachment did to you. Moral injury and betrayal by the institution aren't guilt you can argue your way out of, and they don't respond to being ignored.
The bottle after shift, the screen until 2am, the speed on the highway. Things that work brilliantly right up until they don't. We look at what they're doing for you before anyone talks about taking them away.
What we work on
Hypervigilance, nightmares, numbing and the switch you can't turn off — deployed or not.
Life after the uniform: lost purpose, civilian work that feels pointless, a medical release you didn't choose.
The decision that still sits wrong, and the people who didn't come home — or came home and later took their own life.
Going zero to furious over nothing, then hating yourself for it in front of your own family.
How VAC and Medavie Blue Cross psychotherapy coverage works, and how to check yours.
Small closed groups of CAF and RCMP veterans. Join the list to hear when one forms.
The consult, the first session, what a session looks like, and how you know it's working.
For the partner or adult child living with the distance, the temper and the silence.
General inquiries
Plenty of veterans want to know one thing before they commit to anything — whether their coverage holds, whether groups exist, whether this is even the right kind of help. Ask it. You'll get a real answer from us, usually within one business day, and nothing else will happen unless you ask for it.
Or book straight in — the consult is free and takes about thirty seconds to schedule.
Sorting the admin out first
Cost shouldn't be what stops you, and neither should paperwork. Your K number is the client number Veterans Affairs Canada issues you — it's on VAC correspondence and in My VAC Account. Send it and your psychotherapy coverage through VAC / Medavie Blue Cross gets confirmed before your first session, with direct billing if you're eligible. If you're not covered, you'll hear that plainly and we'll talk about the alternatives.
Group therapy
Small, closed groups of CAF and RCMP veterans — PTSD and operational stress, release and transition, moral injury, anger, and family support. Groups form as demand builds. Add your name and you'll hear first.
How it starts
01
Pick a time on the calendar, or send one question and get a straight answer by email. No form marathon, no commitment, no cost. This is the whole first step.
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Every conversation starts with our founder and lead clinician. A short call — phone or video — to say what's going on and hear the path most likely to work. No assessment battery.
03
Your K number gets checked with VAC / Medavie Blue Cross so billing is handled before session one — and if you're not approved yet, you get help navigating it. Then one-to-one, group, or both: trauma-focused CBT, EMDR-informed processing, EFT, IFS and DBT skills.
Want the full briefing before you commit to anything — what the first session covers, what a normal session looks like, how long it takes and how you'll know it's working?
Read how therapy actually works →Book yourself in
A short call, phone or video, to say what's going on and hear what the work would look like. Bring your K number if you have it — or don't, and we'll sort the coverage after.
Common questions
One short call, free, and no obligation. Ask your questions there — or send one through first if you'd rather.
Across Canada by secure video · info@veteranstherapycanada.ca
