No Waitlists. Just Answers.

You’re worried about your child and you’re not sure what to do.

Maybe you’re not sure if your child needs help, or if what’s going on with them is normal.

Maybe your child is waitlisted for mental health services but they are struggling now. Or they’re already accessing treatment but you’re not sure if it’s working, or if it’s enough. Or they’re refusing treatment. Or your child’s challenges aren’t considered ‘serious’ enough to qualify for supports.

Maybe you just want more - or different - options.

Mental health struggles can show up in many different ways:

  • school refusal or avoidance

  • separation anxiety

  • mood swings

  • emotional outbursts

  • lack of emotion

  • withdrawal or shutting down

  • behaviour challenges

  • lack of motivation

  • executive function challenges

  • inability to play

  • difficulty making friends

  • inability to focus on tasks

  • extreme picky eating

  • difficulty sleeping or nightmares

  • persistent worries, fears or sadness

Maybe your child is refusing to go to school, or getting in trouble all the time, or their grades are dropping. Maybe they’re hitting or screaming and just won’t listen to you (or anyone else). Maybe eating or sleeping is a struggle for them, or making friends feels impossible.

Maybe you’re worried your child is going to be kicked out of childcare (yes, mental health has a major impact on behaviour in the early years!). Or they constantly seem bored or lonely, or complain of tummy or headaches. Or they’ve shut down and you can’t figure out why.

Maybe your child has asked you for help. Or maybe you just feel the need to check in on them and take a proactive approach to managing their mental health.

Whatever it is, we’re here to help, right now.

We provide compassionate, multidisciplinary expertise and take a holistic approach to understanding and improving your child’s mental health.

Our customized child mental health services put the power back in your hands, while sharing some of the load. Everything we do is tailored to your child’s specific needs and situation, with the goal of making supporting your child’s mental health easier for you.

You’ll get deeper insight into what’s going on for your child and how you can help, with professional, caring support for you and your child all the way through. You get the clarity and peace of mind you deserve, and your child gets the support they deserve.

We Know Kids.

Professional Experience + Lived Experience + Specialized Child Development and Mental Health Education

At Just Kids Mental Health, our extensive experience with children comes first. We’ve spent decades working in childcare, schools, camps, recreation, after-school and community programs. We’ve played, tutored, planned lessons, designed therapeutic activities, written behaviour support plans, led field trips, supervised campers, attended IEP meetings, supported at-risk youth, advocated for inclusivity, worked through sensory challenges, calmed fears, managed meltdowns, built relationships with families, listened and felt deeply and witnessed the struggles and the successes.

We’re also parents and caregivers. We know the sleepless nights, the hurried mornings, the fears, the exhaustion, the hopes, the joys, the tears and the beautiful, unpredictable, scary messiness of raising children. We’re navigating our own children’s mental health challenges in this modern world as best we can, too.

We’re child and youth mental health professionals, but we have extensive experience with children across a broad range of environments - not just in the context of mental health treatment. We know the realities of working with and raising children. This is where our passion for understanding and improving children’s mental health comes from, and what sets us apart in the field.

To understand a child’s mental health needs, we must first understand children.

We know that children from all kinds of backgrounds and families struggle with their mental health, and we know that how we - the adults - respond to these struggles matters. We also know that we need more options.

You deserve support from professionals who understand where you’re coming from and who understand not only a child’s capacity to thrive under the right circumstances, but also what those circumstances are and how to realistically create and advocate for them as a busy parent/caregiver (who is likely also navigating their own mental health challenges).

Help that fits.

You don’t need another thing to add to your calendar.

Mental health support for your child should be easy to access and simple to follow through on.

All of our services are provided online in a flexible, asynchronous format - and you’re always connecting with a real person, with real experience, on the other end (no AI chatbots here).

There’s nothing to schedule; no phone calls, no in-person or virtual meetings to attend, no new accounts or apps to set up, and practically no paperwork.

All of our services are provided through email or text, so you can quickly and easily access support when it works for you.

Questions? Just email us.

hello@justkidsmentalhealth.ca