Introspectus Counselling, Colwood BC
Quick, private check-ins you can take on your own for free, and have reviewed with a counsellor when you want more than a number.
A mental health self-check is a short, validated questionnaire that measures symptoms and gives you a score, not a diagnosis. Each one is scored in your browser the moment you finish, so nothing you answer is sent or stored. Introspectus Counselling offers these free checks with Sean Lewis, a Canadian Certified Counsellor, in Colwood, BC and online across BC.
Start with any of these. Every check is free to take and free to score, always, and it happens privately in your browser.
A quick look at how anxiety has been showing up over the past two weeks: worry that is hard to switch off, restlessness, and a sense that something bad might happen.
A broad read on general distress over the past 30 days, for when something is clearly off but you cannot name which thing it is.
A careful look at low mood: interest, sleep, energy, concentration, and how you have been feeling about yourself over the past two weeks.
Twenty questions about the ways a very stressful experience can keep surfacing: memories, avoiding reminders, changes in mood, and feeling on guard.
A look at how you are sleeping and at what the nights are costing the days: how long you lie awake, how often sleep breaks, and how much of your thinking has started to circle around sleep itself.
A look at what your mind does when you feel low. It separates two kinds of overthinking that behave differently: brooding, the moody circling that goes over the same ground, and reflection, the deliberate kind that tries to work something out.
A look at what can be left behind after something that went against your deepest sense of right and wrong. Not fear, which is what a trauma screen measures, but shame, betrayal and lost trust.
Six kinds of religious and spiritual struggle: with God, with the demonic, with other people around faith, with your own moral standards, with doubt, and with whether life means anything.
Three questions on how often you drink, how much on a typical day, and how often it runs to six or more. The shortest check here, and the least loaded.
Two readings from one sitting: how exhausted you are, and how much of it points at your work. Being drained with a low work score means something different than being high on both.
What helping work gives and what it takes, in three separate readings: satisfaction from the work, burnout, and the mark other people’s trauma can leave.
The short screen family doctors use. It answers one question, quickly: is a closer look worth taking? If it says yes, the longer post-trauma stress check is right there.
Five positive questions about the past two weeks: cheerful, calm, active, rested, and interested in daily life. The gentlest starting point on this page.
How much you brace for a no before you ask. Nine ordinary situations, from asking a parent for help to starting a conversation with a stranger.
Each check is a short, well-established questionnaire. You answer honestly, see what your score means in plain language, and choose what comes next, on your own or with Sean.
Choose the one that fits what you are noticing: worry, low mood, stress, or a general sense of how you are doing.
A few questions, a couple of minutes, entirely on your device.
You get your score and what it does and does not tell you. Keep it to yourself, or bring it to a review with Sean.
This is the part most online checks get wrong. Ours are built so there is nothing to leak: the scoring happens in your browser, and we never see what you answered, whether you take a check for free or bring it to a paid review.
A score is a starting point, not the whole story. These are separate bookings for separate reasons, so choose by what you are after; you never need both.
For when you have taken a check and want to understand what it means for you, specifically.
Bring the result you saved; nothing is stored on this site.
For when you are thinking about counselling and want to see whether working together is a fit.
The usual first step. You do not need to take a check first.
The Results Review is a paid appointment. The free checks always stay free.
No. Every check is free to take and free to score, always. Booking a review with Sean to talk through your results is an optional paid step, and the free checks never sit behind a paywall.
No. They are screening tools that measure symptoms; they do not diagnose. A high or low score is a good reason to start a conversation, not a conclusion on its own.
No one. The check runs entirely in your browser, and nothing you answer is sent to us or stored anywhere. If you book a review, you choose what to share in the room.
It means these symptoms are worth paying attention to, not that something is wrong with you. Your results page points you toward next steps, and crisis support is always one tap away if you need it now.
Never. Even where an organization offers these checks to its people, results belong to you alone. No employer, union, or third party ever sees an individual's answers or scores.
Adults 19 and older who want a clearer sense of how they are doing. They are a starting point for reflection, not a substitute for care from a doctor or another qualified professional.
Free tools as they are built, and writing that tries to be useful rather than long. Lately that has meant a burnout check, a quick trauma screen, and worksheets for the days when thinking will not slow down. A short note when something new goes up, usually once or twice a month.
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The checks are free screening tools, not a diagnosis. They can help you notice patterns and decide whether to reach out. Your answers stay on your device; nothing is sent or saved.
