Health & Wellness Resources

Students of McGill university have access to the following portals:

Within these portals, you have access to the resources listed below:

  • McGill Health Clinic: McGill clinic where you can book an appointment with a clinician at McGill’s Brown Building for counseling sessions. This is not for emergency situations.

  • The McGill Counselling Service: This service offers online self-help services, academic success workshops, wellness & life-skills workshops, and psychoeducation groups.

  • McGill Therapist Assisted Online (TAO): 24/7 online service specialized and experienced with anxiety and depression.

  • Sexual Assault Centre of the McGill Students’ Society (SACOMSS): This is an organization run by volunteers supporting survivors of sexual assault. Hotline service can be reached at 514.933.9007 in Montreal | 1.888.933.9007 throughout the province. Active listening appointments can be made by emailing: sacomss@gmail.com.

  • McGill’s Peer Support Centre: This center is comprised of specially trained volunteers who provide free private, confidential, and non-judgmental peer support and referrel to ressources for all McGill Students. Appointments can be booked by phone call, or email: mcgill.psc@gmail.com

  • Advisors: The Access Advisors can help you navigate the services offered by the Student Wellness Hub.

  • Counsellors and Local Wellness Advisors (LWAs): are both mental health professionals. Counsellors are located within the Student Wellness Hub, and Local Wellness Advisors represent the Student Wellness Hub within each faculty.

  • Dietitians: The Registered Dietitians at the Student Wellness Hub can help you with nutritional guidance and concerns.

  • Nurses & Doctors

  • Healthy Living Annex (HLA): a space dedicated to outreach, health promotion, and peer support (workshops, art hive, shag shop, animal therapy, peer support, student caregivers)

  • Psychiatrists: medical doctors who specialize in the diagnosing and treatment of individuals living with mental illness.

  • Sexologists: Sexologists are mental health professionals with a specialty in sexual health. Sexologists at the Student Wellness Hub offer information and sexual health support in a safe judgement-free space concerning sexuality-related concerns.

  • Off-campus care

Telehealth services are also offered through McGill Univeristy:

  • Keep.meSAFE: a mental health counselling service that specializes in student mental health support

    • 24/7/365 immediate and unlimited access to licensed counselors through telephone and mobile chat.

    • Mental health care in over 60 languages and therefore accessible to a large majority of graduate students.

    • DownloadMySSP app, for Apple & Android

    • Wait times are short. At the moment there are no in-person meetings but online and phone-calls are available.

  • Dialogue: Virtual Health Care

  • Maple: Virtual consultations with doctors

  • 811: Can be dialed 24/7, 365 days a year to speak to a nurse or psychosocial worker

  • Tia health: Online doctors appointments

  • Dermago: Dermatology consultations

  • McGill NightLine: 24/7 hotline and online chat service specializing in giving information about available resources, active listening and crisis management (lines are open from 6pm to 3am every night).

“History is who we are and why we are the way we are”- David McCullough. 

We are living in a time in history where we have to examine the violence several communities have faced throughout their lives. The Experimental Medicine Graduate Students’ Society (EMGSS), as part of McGill University, acknowledges that the land where our Annual McGill Biomedical Graduate Conference (AMBGC) happens, is the traditional and unceded territory of the Kanien’keha:ka. The Kanien'kehá:ka Nation is a founding nation of the Haudenosaunee/People of the Longhouse (Iroquois) Confederacy which is also comprised of the Seneca, Tuscarora, Cayuga, Onondaga, and Oneida Nations. EMGSS honours, respects and recognizes these Nations. We encourage everyone to understand the history of this land. For more information visit the McGill Indigenous Initiatives website.

«L'histoire définit qui nous sommes et pourquoi nous sommes comment nous sommes» - David McCullough.

Nous voulons reconnaître que l’Université McGill est située en territoire autochtone, lequel n’a jamais été cédé. Nous reconnaissons la nation Kanien'kehá: ka comme gardienne des terres et des eaux sur lesquelles nous nous réunissons virtuellemement aujourd'hui. Tiohtiá:ke (Montréal) est historiquement connu comme un lieu de rassemblement pour de nombreuses Premières Nations, et aujourd'hui, une population autochtone diversifiée, ainsi que d'autres peuples, y résident. La Nation Kanien'kehá: ka est une nation fondatrice de la Confédération Haudenosaunee / Iroquois qui comprend également les nations Seneca, Tuscarora, Cayuga, Onondaga et Oneida. C’est dans le respect des liens avec le passé, le présent et l'avenir que nous reconnaissons les relations continues entre les peuples autochtones et autres personnes de la communauté montréalaise. Nous encourageons tout participant présent à mieux connaître l'histoire de cette terre. Pour plus d'informations, visitez le site Web des initiatives autochtones de McGill.