Real Life Counselling · Online Therapy Across Canada
Therapy that fits your real life.
We match you with the right therapist for what you’re navigating, anxiety, burnout, relationship strain, life transitions, so the work feels practical, not abstract. Secure online sessions across Canada.
What We Help With
Whatever you’re carrying, you won’t carry it alone.
Our therapists have helped people navigate every one of these, and the overlaps between them.
Anxiety & overthinking
Calm the mental spirals, quiet the constant scanning, and feel less reactive in everyday life.
Stress & burnout
Support for chronic pressure, emotional exhaustion, and the feeling that you can’t keep this pace.
Depression & low mood
Work through heaviness, lost motivation, and the days when everything feels harder than it should.
Relationships & couples
Improve communication, repair after conflict, rebuild trust, and reconnect with your partner.
Life transitions
Career change, separation, grief, new parenthood, support through the moments that reshape you.
Trauma & difficult experiences
Process what still affects how you feel, react, or relate, at a pace that feels safe.
Parenting & family
The pressure of parenting, family conflict, and the strain of holding it all together.
Pressure & high-responsibility roles
For professionals and leaders navigating high-stakes work without losing themselves to it.
How It Works
Three steps, and you’re talking to someone.
1
Tell us what’s going on
A short intake, what you’re navigating, what kind of therapist feels right, your schedule. About three minutes.
2
We match you
A clinician whose approach and experience fit your needs, not just whoever’s free. Most clients are matched within one business day.
3
Begin, from anywhere
Secure video sessions from home, your office, wherever you are in Canada. Most clients begin within a week.
Care That Reflects You
You shouldn’t have to explain your whole world before the work can begin.
Feeling understood is where therapy starts. That includes culture, faith, language, identity, and family, the context you live in, not just the problem you bring.
We take matching seriously: when you tell us what matters to you in a therapist, including cultural background or lived experience, we do our best to honour it. And every clinician on our team practises culturally responsive, affirming care, whoever you are and however your family is built.
The right therapist changes everything.
Therapy works best when you feel understood. Tell us what’s going on, and we’ll match you with a therapist whose approach, experience, and personality fit what you need.
Founded by Ashley Kreze, RP & RCC
Seventeen years of helping people navigate real life.
Real Life Counselling was founded by Ashley Kreze, a Registered Psychotherapist (Ontario) and Registered Clinical Counsellor (British Columbia), with over 17 years of experience supporting individuals, couples, and professionals through stress, pressure, and complex life challenges.
Her work has been featured in Forbes, EmpowHer, and CEO Blog Nation, and she created and hosted two seasons of It’s All Millennial on RogersTV.
79%
Therapeutic Alliance Score
Measured Care
Therapy you can actually measure.
We use Greenspace, a validated clinical outcomes platform, to track how clients are really doing, because therapy isn’t just about how a session feels in the moment. It’s about whether things are genuinely getting better over time.
Research identifies the therapeutic alliance, the quality of the relationship between you and your therapist, as the single strongest predictor of outcomes. We measure ours, and we hold ourselves to it.
Therapeutic alliance measured using validated clinical tools. Outcomes tracking powered by Greenspace.
Beyond Individual Therapy
Specialized support
For Workplaces
Corporate Mental Health Lunch & Learns
Live, therapist-led virtual workshops for your team. Practical tools for resilience, stress, and communication, delivered worldwide via Zoom or Teams. Trusted by Telus, BC Children’s Hospital, Bard Canada, and more since 2009.
For the Trades
Construction Mental Health
Confidential online counselling built for tradespeople. Real talk, flexible scheduling, and therapists who understand site culture, long hours, and the pressure of holding it together for your crew and your family.
Covered by most extended health benefits.
Our services are covered by most extended health plans in Canada, for Registered Psychotherapists (Ontario) and Registered Clinical Counsellors (BC). We provide receipts for reimbursement; check with your insurer to confirm coverage.
Manulife · Sun Life · Canada Life · Green Shield · Pacific Blue Cross · Equitable Life · many EAPs
Ready when you are.
Tell us a little about what’s going on. We’ll match you with a therapist, and you can begin within a week.