If you are in immediate danger or thinking about harming yourself, get help now. Visit a nearby emergency service, hospital, or mental health clinic. If you are in crisis, these helplines can help:
Crisis numbers in Canada
- 9-8-8 Suicide Crisis Helpline, call or text, at any hour: Tel: 9-8-8 | Text: 9-8-8
- Kids Help Phone, for children and young adults: Tel: 1-800-668-6868 | Text: CONNECT to 686868
- Hope for Wellness Help Line, for Indigenous people: Tel: 1-855-242-3310
- National Indian Residential School Crisis Line: Tel: 1-866-925-4419
- All crisis lines in Canada
This page lists Black Depression Social Workers in Toronto. 3 in all.
That is 3 of the 20 social workers listed in Toronto.
These are practitioners who identify as Black on their profile. It is their own answer to a profile question. We do not check it.
This list answers a request for a practitioner of the same race or ethnicity. Cabral and Smith found the match made almost no difference to treatment outcomes 1.
The request is usually narrower: a practitioner who will name race early, without you having to explain yourself. Some family therapy approaches recommend the therapist raise it near the start 2. You can ask a practitioner how they handle it.
What the social workers on this page do, and how to choose one
The social workers listed in Toronto for depression work with the person and their situation. That can mean regular sessions, help with services, or work with the family 3.
Where an assessment, a diagnosis or medicine is needed, ask who provides it where you are. Open the profiles below to compare experience, language, fee, and whether they work online. Ask how soon each one can see you.
What social work covers, from counselling to housing and income
Everyone on this page is listed under the professional title social worker. Social work is a practice-based profession and an academic discipline 4. It promotes social change, cohesion and the empowerment of people.
The training emphasises the systems around a person. Housing, income, schooling, child protection and family conflict are part of it.
In mental health that often means talking work alongside practical support. Ask a practitioner what parts of your situation they would work on.
What this page filters on
These are the only filters: the practitioner's stated Black identity, the specialism recorded as Depression and the professional title social worker.
The Toronto page answers more questions about therapy there.
Fees, insurance and lower-cost options
Do affordable options exist in Toronto?
Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Downtown Clinics. Phone +1 416 535 8501. An official CAMH resource says OHIP covers outpatient psychotherapy given in hospital. Adults living in the Toronto catchment areas CAMH publishes can enter by referral through Access CAMH.
Who registers therapists in Canada?
The protected title you will see is Registered Social Worker.
In Canada there is no national register: each province and territory licenses under its own law.
Nearby places and related listings
- Depression Social Workers in Toronto
- Female Depression Social Workers in Toronto
- Black Depression Psychotherapists in Toronto
- Black Anxiety Social Workers in Toronto
- Black Trauma Social Workers in Toronto
- Male Psychotherapists in Toronto, one filter on the full Toronto psychotherapists list
- Psychotherapists in Toronto
- Social Workers in Toronto
- All therapists listed in Toronto (177)
- Couples therapy, Toronto
References
[2] Integrative Systemic Therapy in Practice, pp. 71-72, citing Kelly et al. (2020). Cultural humility, cultural competence and the therapeutic alliance.
[3] MSD Manual, Consumer Version. Treatment of mental illness (Overview of mental health care).
[4] International Federation of Social Workers. Global definition of the social work profession.
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Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)
