Island Perinatal Counselling Network
Connect with a Perinatal Counsellor Near You
You’re a new or expectant parent on Vancouver Island — residing in the Island Health Region — in Greater Victoria or up Island.
Tap the support of the perinatal specialists in the network to regain wellness and navigate the challenges your facing in the transformative time of life. Call today to get real-time counsellor details and options without obligation.
For Parents
For Healthcare Providers
Struggles like these are all too common for new and expectant parents
Get Help Choosing The Perinatal Support You Deserve
You’re navigating one of life’s biggest transitions. Our Care Coordinator will quickly connect you with a specialist who truly understands your experience.
Fast Connection to Care
Our Care Coordinator answers the phone on weekdays, and responds quickly to inquiries and referrals. Most parents connect with their counsellor in 1 to 2 weeks. Skip the waitlists and delays.
You Choose What Works
We present all suitable perinatal support options, both within our network and beyond. You decide what fits you the needs and preferences of you and your family.
One-Call Booking
One 10 minute conversation covers your situation, preferences, and scheduling. We book you directly with your chosen counsellor. There’s no need for back and forth communication.
Trusted Specialist Network
Connect with experienced perinatal specialists with private practice offices in Victoria and the surrounding area — a network with strong ties to local family healthcare doctors, midwives, nurses, and more.
We understand what you’re going through
Early parenthood brings unexpected mental health challenges—anxiety, overwhelm, relationship changes, and issues and events you never saw coming. After supporting new and expectant parents for the past quarter century, we’ve seen so much, and we know how isolating it can feel.
Start your return to mental wellbeing with the help of an experienced perinatal counsellor
Get back to feeling yourself again
Call the Network Care Coordinator, Michael, for a warm, informative, confidential conversation. Get the details you need to connect with a local perinatal specialist who’s right for you, plus additional resources near you. No pressure. No judgment. Just immediate information and solid support.
By calling the Network, you get access to the rates, practice details, and schedules of multiple counsellors. When you’re ready to book a first session with the person or your choice, it takes just a few minutes by phone. And right away, you’ll get an email from your counsellor confirming the first appointment.
From the first session, you work with a counsellor who understands the full range of joy and struggle that comes with conception, pregnancy, birth, and new parenthood. You have a skilled professional in your corner and a safe space to address what’s hard, build on what’s working, and start feeling better.
Michael McGee
Perinatal Care Coordinator
Meet Our Network of Trusted Perinatal Specialists
You need more than general counselling. You need someone who understands the unique mental health challenges that parents face in pregnancy and early parenthood.
Our perinatal specialists are focussed on supporting parents through one of the biggest transitions in life. , offering seasoned expertise to guide you and supervised perinatal intern and affordable options to fit your needs. If we know of a local resource or counsellor who can help you access the mental health support you need, we’ll connect you with them, whether its in our network or not.
Laurie Moniz
Theresa Gulliver
Jody Lambert
Tomiris Altayeva
Renée Ahmadi
Traci McGee
Parents’ Access to Care Shouldn’t Stop Because Program Funding Ended
The CRD Perinatal Counselling Prgram ended June 30, 2025, concluding 35 years of free postpartum and perinatal counselling for families.
We believe perinatal mental health counselling should be universally accessible. Until that becomes reality, we’ve created a partial bridge.
In July 2025, we launched a new version of the old service. Soon after, we expanded the service area from Greater Victoria to Vancouver Island. This is how the Island Perinatal Counselling Network came to be.
Our Care Coordinator still takes referrals from medical professionals from across the Island Health area. We still take cals from parents. And we still take the time with you on the phone to help you find the perinatal specialist who matches your needs and preferences.
The difference?
Most counselling now involves a fee. But we’ve expanded the options:
- Multiple specialists – Registered counsellors with different private practice rates all offer specialized perinatal mental health care.
- Affordable care – Perinatal interns offer low-cost counselling under expert supervision.
- Wider area – Services for parents across the Island Health Area — from Victoria to Port Hardy.
- Community connections – Sometimes your optimal service or provider is not in our network, and we’ll help you connect with them when that’s the case.
One call connects you to all options. Our Care Coordinator will work with you to find services that fit your needs and budget—whether inside or outside our network.
Low Cost Therapy
Options
The McGee Therapy Clinic helps ensure parents in Victoria and across Vancouver Island can access quality perinatal mental health care through its Internship & Fellowship Programs, and its Affordable Therapy Plan.
Our Master’s-level counsellors provide perinatal counselling for $80 (Interns) and $120 (Fellows). Significantly lower than the rates of registered counsellors, you can access fees that are even lower — up to 50% less — by calling and asking about the Affordable Therapy Plan.
Refer a Patient
When you refer to our network of private perinatal counsellors, we take the time to call and speak with your patient. We help them connect and start seeing a local perinatal specialist, ideally within 1 to 2 weeks of your referral.
1. Download Referral Form
Download and complete our fillable PDF. Or use your clinic form. (just please provide the same information.)
2. Fax Form to 250-472-6762
Our Care Coordinator reaches out to every patient who is referred, We review your referral details and spend time with each parent to match them with the counsellor or community service that is right for them. Where possible, we try to get them booked for their first session with a perinatal counsellor within 1 to 2 weeks of your referral.
