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Hard Feelings is an innovative non-profit mental health organization, based in Toronto. NOTE: This page is not activly monitored.

Please visit our website and send an email if you need to get in touch. Hard Feelings was founded by Kate Scowen, a social worker, counsellor and writer who believes that strong mental health is rooted in self-understanding and connection. In her work, she found that many people were unable to find affordable mental health supports. She envisioned a storefront where people could come together to find resources that support strong mental health and have access to affordable on-site counselling.

04/22/2026

🌱 We’re taking time away from the storefront to work on some new initiatives.

Our storefront space will be closed from Monday, April 27th, through Friday, May 8th. We’ll be back on Monday, May 11th, and will make some exciting program announcements before then, so stay tuned.

Don’t worry though, while we are closed our regular drop-in programs will continue to run. This means you can attend Games with Lilly and HF Hangouts from 2pm - 5pm on Mondays and Fridays. Drop by during programming hours to join us!

🌟 All other scheduled groups will also continue to run. There will be no interruptions to in-person psychotherapy.

Stay up to date with everything going on at Hard Feelings by checking out our events calendar (link in our bio).

04/10/2026

If you couldn’t make your own health care decisions… who would speak for you?
It’s not an easy question, but it’s an important one. 💭

Planning for your future health care needs means thinking about:

🔸Who you trust to make decisions for you;
🔸What matters most in your life;
🔸How someone can honour your wishes if you can’t speak for yourself;

The best time to think about this is now, while you can decide for yourself.

In recognition of Advance Care Planning Day (April 16), we’re creating a welcoming space to start this conversation, over tea. ☕

Join Adrianna Prosser, Death Doula, for a gentle, guided conversation about advance care planning and the choices that matter most to you.

Adrianna is a Death & Grief Doula as seen on CBC Radio One, CTV's The Social, and The Globe & Mail where she talks about being death curious and creating space for grief. Her practice is anti-oppressive, radically feminist, and magically authentic to ensure she centers her companions where they are at on their care journey. Join the death curious conversation with her: on TikTok, Instagram, SubStack

📅 Date: Thursday, April 16
🕑 Time: 2:00 – 4:00 PM
📍 Location: 353 Church Street
💵 Cost: FREE!

(Please enter through Hard Feelings storefront. The conversation will happen in a private room.)

This is a drop-in session (first come, first served).

Because the question is simple:
If not you… who?

04/02/2026

🌊 ONLINE TRAINING FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

Walking and Resting with Grief, facilitated by Adrianna Prosser [Death Doula, Grief Educator and Story Teller]

How can we hold space for grief without making those bereaved feel like they are doing grief wrong?

Join us in learning about decolonial and secular methods of addressing grief.

Learn how to support your clients as they metabolize grief, moving through and integrating it into the body and mind.

Thursday, April 23rd, 2026 | 6:00 - 8:00pm.
Online via Zoom | Link in Bio
Cost: $40

🌊About our facilitator;
Adrianna’s brother Andrew died by su***de in 2010 and his death catapulted her life into death work and mental health advocacy. She became a su***de awareness trainer and interventionist. She toured her one woman show about su***de loss and bereavement, utilizing her storytelling background to create inclusive space to open a dialogue around death and dying. Holding liminal space and being comfortable in the discomfort has led Adrianna to become a hospice volunteer and grief counsellor. She is currently enrolled in a Bachelor’s of Social Work program to become a grief therapist to complement all the training she has done as a death worker. Her practice is anti-oppressive, radically feminist, and magically authentic to ensure she centers her companions where they are at on their care journey.

04/01/2026

Come hang out at Hard Feelings this April! 🪻

🎲 Games with Lilly on Mondays - Drop-in 2:00 - 5:00 PM
🎨 Hard Feelings Hangouts on Fridays - Drop-in 2:00 - 5:00 PM
🫖 Advance Care Plan with Adrianna on April 16th - Drop-in 2:00 - 4:00 PM
🪁 The Neurodiverse Social with Dana on April 16th - Drop-in 4:00 - 6:00 PM

All happening in-person at 353 Church Street! See you there!

✳️ Subscribe to our Calendar (link in bio) to stay up to date about our events and workshops!
Any cancellations or change of plans outside our control will be posted on our stories and our Calendar.

03/30/2026

The Tired & Tender Collective
Four weeks. One collective exhale. 🌿

If you’re feeling physically, emotionally, and mentally drained by the weight of social, environmental, and global struggles… this space is for you.

For frontline workers, caregivers, activists, community builders, and anyone navigating the constant pressure of conscious choices, grief, responsibility, and change.

Over 4 weeks in April, we’ll gather in community to:
✨ Acknowledge and validate our exhaustion
✨ Gently locate where it lives in our bodies
✨ Learn and build coping practices together
✨ Get creative + co-create a zine about our experience

🗓️ Dates: Thursdays from April 9th to April 30th
⏰️ Time: 6:45 PM - 8:30 PM
📍 Location: 353 Church Street - Hard Feelings Storefront
💸 Cost: Free
⭐️ Registration Required

Please note: this is not clinical psychotherapy or crisis support. Big feelings are welcome — we’ll hold and witness them together.

Spots are limited. You can register via the link on our bio. Please register only if you can commit to all sessions.

03/23/2026

🌈 New therapy group at Hard Feelings for q***r and trans folks.

Our Shadow Parts: Addressing Shame, Loneliness and Isolation in the 2SLGBTQIA+ Community

This group will aim to foster connection, self-awareness and community healing, addressing prevalent themes amongst 2SLGBTQIA+ folks such as shame, loneliness, self-doubt and isolation. By engaging with contemplative practices and experiential exercises, participants will develop more capacity and skillfulness being with difficult emotions and activated states, as well as exploring limiting patterns and beliefs. Through relational dialogue and self-inquiry, topics such as compassion, forgiveness, and self-acceptance will be explored. Being in the context of a supportive group will also facilitate greater ease in this exploration, leading to personal growth and change.

The group is facilitated by Andi Yumansky, RP. Andi is a q***r and non-binary psychotherapist living in Toronto. They specialize in working with the 2SLGBTQIA+ community, specifically around themes of identity and belonging, shame and developmental trauma. Andi has been running groups for q***r and trans folks since 2018 and is increasingly passionate about this modality. They believe in the power of group therapy as a means of cultivating greater insight, compassion and connection (to self and others), through reducing isolation and widening our perspective to include others. Andi has studied and engaged in insight meditation for over a decade and is interested in how spiritual practice can be a means to healing, on both the individual and collective levels.

🗓️ Starting from April 23, 2026 to June 4, 2026
⏰️ Thursdays; 4:00 - 5:30 PM
(No session on May 21)
📍 353 Church Street
🏷️ $40 per session, might be covered by your benefit plan

✳️ Spots are limited and registration is required.
✳️ To register, please email Andi at andi.yumansky@gmail.com or visit the link in our bio.

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03/17/2026

CW: Death, Horror

Blood on the Clocktower is back!! Spooky Spring Edition! 🫠 🥀

During a hellish thunderstorm, a scream echoes through the sleepy town of Ravenswood Bluff. Lilly unfolds the story as the game goes on. ⛏️

Thursday, April 2nd at 6:30

At Hard Feelings, we understand and value the importance of connecting and socializing with others as a tool for stronger mental health. This is why, in collaboration with our long time volunteer, Lilly, we have organized an evening where members of the community can come together to play, meet each other, and build connections.

ABOUT THE GAME
Blood on the Clocktower is a social deduction game taking place in the little town of Ravenswood Bluff. If you have played Mafia or Warewolf before, you will find some similarities. The game is facilitated by a Storyteller (Lilly) who will guide the players through all the phases of the game. Each player will assume a unique role, each with a unique ability that can significantly impact the game. In Blood on the Clocktower, players will die throughout the course of the game. However, unlike other similar games, death is not the end. Dead players continue to impact the game, and often make the difference when deciding which team comes out on top. It is up to the townsfolk of Ravenswood Bluff to find the demon hiding among them, and whether you are working for the forces of good, or the forces of evil, you will need both deduction and deception to come out on top. For the ones who know the game, we are going to run the "Trouble Brewing" script.

📍 353 Church Street (Hard Feelings)
🗓️ April 2nd
🕡️ 6:30pm – 9:30pm
👤 Anyone - age 18+
Experience: None required!

This event is FREE.
Registration is required – spots are limited!

✅️ Please register through the link on our bio!

03/16/2026

What do you feel? What do you need? 🤷
These are questions that are often hard to answer. Sometimes you may feel sad and need to dance, sometimes you may feel sad and need to sob. Identifying feelings and needs may become confusing, uncertain, and tough.

Join us for a free in-person workshop where we will explore feelings and needs, make flipbooks, learn from each other, and get help navigating the mental health care system.

Participation is limited to 12. Registration required to secure your spot. Please register via the link in bio.

Please note that this is not clinical psychotherapy, nor is it a crisis support space. We recognize big feelings may arise, our goal is to be able to support and witness them together.

🗓️ Thursday March 26
⏰️ 6:30 - 8:30 PM
📍 353 Church Street - Hard Feelings Storefront

03/09/2026

✨ Have you checked out our Zine Library at Hard Feelings? 💫 We have a diverse collection of zines that you can explore in-store! As we only have limited copies, we ask that you enjoy them in-store only.

👉 Check out these artists featured in our reel:

Overwhelmed, by:

This Grief Thing F**king Sucks, by:

Sick Stories: My Body, My Story, by: .stories

Diary of a depressed extrovert, by:

Intimacy Issues, by:

Invisibilities Zine Issue no.1, by:

How Did You Remember Me?, by:

Period Pieces, by: .cussen

The Empty Spaces, by:

Grief Lives on the Internet, by:

Sh*t’s Fu**ed Still, by:

Anxiety & Self Care: A Radical Guide, by: .art

Neopets, by

More free and for-purchase resources are available in our store at 353 Church Street, or online at hardfeelings.org 🌱

03/06/2026

When care and insight come together, change happens. 💙

This year's Social Work Week theme is: Care. Insight. Together.

At Hard Feelings, these are values that shape every program, every decision, and every expansion we make. Insight from our community is what drives us to keep innovating and reducing barriers to care.

To every social worker in our community, thank you. The work you do and the care you bring are at the heart of why we do what we do. 🌟

And, we're not done listening and gathering insights. This spring, we're launching our annual community survey — your chance to take the mic and tell us what's needed, what's missing, and to share with us what you would like to see for in our city. Keep your eyes peeled! 👀

02/16/2026

🌟 LOW-COST GROUP 🌟
Mindfulness-based Cognitive Therapy Group, facilitated by Angela ElzingaCheng, MSW, RSW

Don't miss this opportunity for an empowering and interactive group experience, focused on mental well-being, self-care, and resilience. For folks 18+ years who are facing financial barriers to accessing mental health supports.

$395 for the entire group (8 weekly sessions + one 6-hour retreat). May be covered by some extended health benefit plans.

LEARN SKILLS THAT:
🌱 Decrease stress and anxiety
🌱 Halt the escalation of negative thoughts
🌱 Build a sense of warmth and self-compassion for yourself

Registration required | Space is limited.

Questions and registration:
Email Angela at angelaelzinga@yahoo.ca

02/12/2026

🌟 ONLINE TRAINING FOR MENTAL HEALTH PROFESSIONALS

Working with Su***de Risk: Developing Confidence and Effectiveness in Helping Clients in Crisis - Facilitated by Jim Salmon, MA, C.Psych

Thursday, March 19th
12:00 - 2:00pm

🌱 Learn to apply the Interpersonal Theory of Su***de as a tool to help structure a conceptualization of su***de risk.

🌱 Examine the role of a trauma-informed approach to discussing su***de with clients.
Review language for documenting and different approaches to documentation (e.g. detail vs. a “less is more” approach).

🌱 Consider options for intervention for different levels of su***de risk.

Hard Feelings is an innovative mental health non-profit. Our trainings offer high-quality learning opportunities for mental health professionals working with folks facing financial barriers to access.

🎟️ TICKETS $40 - LINK IN BIO

Questions? Email ekta@hardfeelings.org

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Toronto, ON

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Monday	10am - 5pm
Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm

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+16477403335

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http://www.hardfeelings.org/

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