Increasing Indigenous access: the need for Canadian certified counsellors in the NIHB program

Inequitable access to health and mental health care negates essential opportunities and services necessary for the recovery of colonization.

The Canadian Certified Counsellors is a professional designation offered by Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association for counsellors and psychotherapists to practice across the country, regardless of a lack of regulation of the profession in a province, writes Angela Grier, a registered provisional psychologist in Alberta.Photograph courtesy of Pixabay

Opinion

BY ANGELA GRIER

February 6, 2023

Inequity in access to fundamental government services, such as health and mental health care, has been a long-standing systemic issue that discriminates against Indigenous people in Canada. This inequitable access negates essential opportunities and services necessary for th...

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