A proposal for your organization

Support from someone who has been on the tools, and in leadership

The Science of Healing, The Art of Care.

Independent, local workplace mental health that adds to what you already run. Pick a category; it plays, then zooms back here.

Sean Lewis, CCC, MACP, MDiv, DPC · Veteran; experience in business leadership; led The Mustard Seed · Colwood, BC

Where I would start

Psychoeducation, built for your workplace

For eight years I spoke to a room every week, so a session holds and a group keeps coming back. That is over 500 hours of public speaking. I come to your team, in person or online, with a straight session and a practical tool they can use that day. It is the same work I currently deliver for a nurses' union, a school district, and municipal staff.

Supporting your leaders and managers in building healthy teams

One-hour, half-day, or full-day workshop

A full-semester course

I led The Mustard Seed, a multimillion-dollar operation, so I know where organizations strain. I work with your leaders to spot those patterns and shift them, so mental health becomes part of how the workplace runs.

Layered Vancouver Island coastal headlands

Topics, and yours

The sessions

Stress and resilience

Burnout prevention

Recognizing when someone is struggling

Navigating change and uncertainty

Open dialogue: we build topics with you and honour your contextTell me what your team needs and we develop it together

For 2 a.m.

Tools in their pocket

Open the toolkit page

Apps that come with the psychoeducation. Guided breathing and grounding, and Dropping the Rope for a stuck thought. After a session, people take the matching app home, so they can practise the very thing they just learned.

A growing library. More tools added over time, each tied to what we teach, and we can tailor them to your workplace.

Check-ins on the website. Private self-assessments a team member can use to quietly track how they are doing and catch a problem early.

And I am glad to work alongside your team, developing tools that fit your context.

Available to your team

Check-ins and screening

Confidential check-ins, built right into the website, so your people can quietly track how they are doing and catch a problem early. Included for your team as part of our working relationship.

What "assessment" means here. Recognized screening tools, AUDIT, DAST, PHQ-9, GAD-7, used for screening and self-reflection, not diagnosis. Anything that needs a formal diagnosis, I refer out. Scope confirmed for BC.

A course, not a one-off session

Multi-unit courses, built out over a semester

A course runs across several units; each is a short lesson, a practical exercise, and a check-in, so the learning builds and holds.

Sleep and Recovery

Simple sleep habits that hold up on a demanding schedule; morning sunlight to set the body clock earlier so an early start gets easier; a cool, dark, quiet room; and a wind-down breathing app for the last few minutes of the day.

Stress and Substance

I was a pastor at The Mustard Seed and ran a recovery home, so this is lived ground. Cravings rise and fall like a wave; we practise noticing and riding one out instead of fighting it, backed by an app that lets a person watch the craving fade.

Every unit sends people home with something to keep: a card, a practice, or an app.

Why your people will talk to me

I have been on the tools, and I have led

Before I counselled, I served in the infantry, built years of business and leadership experience in the trades, and led The Mustard Seed. I have done the hands-on work and carried the weight of leading an organization, so I understand your people and the pressures they carry.

Canadian Armed Forces veteran; approved to see veterans through VAC (Medavie)
Business and leadership experience in the trades, in plumbing and condo renovation
Over 500 hours of public speaking, week after week as a pastor at The Mustard Seed; I know how to hold a hard room
Master's-level counsellor: CCC, MACP, MDiv, DPC; based on Vancouver Island

Where I fit

I add to what you already have

Most organizations already invest in their people, through benefits, an EAP, or HR programs. I am not here to duplicate that. I add capacity, reach, and depth, and I work alongside what you have built.

Psychologically safe leadership: helping managers notice early distress and respond well
Psychological health and safety: working within the National Standard's framework
Mental health literacy: shared language so people recognize and support a struggling colleague
Support through change: restructuring, new schedules, and uncertainty

Scope. Education and awareness, not a compliance audit or a psychological assessment. Anything clinical, I refer out.

Start wherever it helps

Ways we can work together

Psychoeducation sessions

Custom multi-unit courses

A digital toolkit for your team

On-site programs, including group therapy

Equipping your leaders and managers with mental-health tools for their teams

Peer support, alongside your team

Referral pathway for your people and their families

Confidential check-ins and screening, included in the partnership

More than anything, I would love to get to know your people and build a real working relationship over time. For me this is a mission: better mental health, stronger relationships, and a healthier community, not a business to run. Can we find a time to sit down together and see where I fit?

Sean Lewis, CCC · sean@introspectuscounselling.ca · 250-556-4623

Straightforward pricing

What it costs

A talk or sessionUp to an hour, in person or online · $500

A half day or a full dayHalf day $1,200 · full day $1,800

A semester of learningBuilt over a full semester, apps included · from $3,000

On site and ongoingGroup therapy $250/session · leadership coaching $175/hr · consulting from $1,100/day

Included at no extra cost: the digital toolkit, confidential check-ins and screening, and a referral pathway for your people and their families.

Exempt from GST and PST; counselling and mental-health services are tax-exempt. Always happy to discuss flexible options that fit your funding.

If funding is the barrier

Grant funding, worth exploring

Cost should not be why your people go without support. For many organizations, part of this work can be covered by a grant. If that could help you, I am glad to find the right program and write the application with you. You would be the applicant; I bring the mental-health piece, as your named delivery partner.

Federal workplace fundsWell-being and violence-prevention streams

Provincial and health-authority grantsSuch as Island Health community wellness

Community and corporate foundationsSuch as the Victoria Foundation, TD Ready, Bell Let's Talk

Union benefit and training trustsFor unionized teams

Every organization is different. These are a few starting points, each with its own rules; together we would find what could actually fit yours.

How it works

Helping you fund it, step by step

1

We find a program that fits your organization

2

You apply; I am named as your delivery partner

3

I help write the mental-health part of the proposal

4

Once funded, I deliver the work with your team

No cost to look into it, and no pressure. If a grant is not the right fit, we find another way.

See it for yourself

Built, and live today

Everything is at introspectuscounselling.ca: the workplace offer, every specialty, and the self-guided apps. It is all on the website, live and ready to use today.

Be Set Free.

Sean Lewis, CCC · sean@introspectuscounselling.ca · 250-556-4623