Practice simulations

You are a Registered Psychotherapist at a children's and youth mental health centre in Ottawa. The centre offers a first appointment within a fortnight; after that there is a waitlist of several months for ongoing therapy.

You are a Registered Psychotherapist at a community counselling agency in Sudbury. The agency offers short-term, solution-focused work in French and English on a sliding scale, and you carry a caseload of adults.

You are a Registered Psychotherapist in solo private practice in Windsor, working in a cognitive-behavioural frame with adults. Most of your clients pay privately or through extended health benefits.

You are a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) in a six-clinician group private practice in Kitchener. You practise under weekly clinical supervision.

You are a Registered Psychotherapist in independent practice. You see all of your clients by video from a converted spare room in your house in Peterborough, behind a door that closes, with a white-noise machine in the hall. Camille Arsenault, 33, is a doctoral candidate you have seen for five months for panic attacks and health anxiety.

You are a Registered Psychotherapist at a community health centre in Mississauga, in a short-term counselling programme with a cap of twelve sessions. Amaan Sheikh, 26, is a hospital pharmacy technician who lives with his parents and younger sister.

You are a Registered Psychotherapist at a publicly funded community counselling agency in Oshawa. Much of your caseload is people referred after workplace injury.

You are a Registered Psychotherapist in the outpatient mental health program of a hospital in Hamilton. Ibrahim, 54, was referred by his family physician sixteen weeks ago for depressed mood and irritability following a back injury that ended his work as a machinist.

You are a Registered Psychotherapist in solo private practice in Kingston, working relationally. Maeve Okonkwo-Doyle, 34, is a high school teacher who pays your fee through her partner's extended health plan.

You are a Registered Psychotherapist at a community mental health agency in Sault Ste. Marie.

You are a Registered Psychotherapist contracted to an employee assistance program in Ottawa. The contract provides six sessions, with a possible extension of four more on written request.

You are a Registered Psychotherapist at a Community Health Centre in Scarborough. The centre's nurse practitioner has referred Estela Bautista, 43, with the note: 'Generalized anxiety.

You are a Registered Psychotherapist in solo private practice in Oshawa. Owen Prentice, 46, has attended eleven weekly sessions.

You are a Registered Psychotherapist in solo private practice in Sudbury, offering services in English and French. Chloe Tremblay, 26, a personal support worker, has attended eight sessions.

You are a Registered Psychotherapist at a university counselling service in London, Ontario. The service offers up to twelve sessions per academic year; this was explained at intake and is set out in the consent package Dylan signed.

You are a Registered Psychotherapist in solo private practice in Marathon, a town of about three thousand on the north shore of Lake Superior. You are the only psychotherapist between Wawa and Nipigon; the nearest alternative is a two-hour drive or a video appointment.

You are a Registered Psychotherapist in a four-person group private practice in Windsor, and you are the health information custodian for your own clients' records. Hoang Nguyen, 47, has seen you for eleven months - first with his wife for three couple sessions, then individually - following an assault at work.

You are a Registered Psychotherapist at a community mental health agency in Sudbury. The agency, not you, is the health information custodian.

You are a Registered Psychotherapist in solo private practice in Barrie, and you are the health information custodian for your own records. Priya Ramanathan, 38, has seen you weekly for nine months for anxiety and the aftermath of a difficult separation; she and her former husband are in a contested parenting dispute.

You are a Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying) at a community counselling agency in Windsor. Your certificate requires clinical supervision.