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Download our Patient Info PDF with information about how PMVC works, and how your patients can find a therapist.

Looking for mental health care matched to your patients’ needs?

As a primary care provider, you’re often left navigating a fragmented and under-resourced mental health system. Your patients need timely, high-quality psychotherapy and psychiatric consultation, but what they usually get is a confusing maze of waitlists, mismatched services, and drop-in solutions with poor follow-up.

Psychotherapy Matters Virtual Collaboration (PMVC) is changing how mental health care is delivered in Ontario.

Collaborative mental health care that works. Here’s how:

You refer your patient to a therapist in the PMVC network.

The therapist delivers high-quality, personalized psychotherapy, and acts as the patient’s care navigator and case manager.

If a psychiatrist consultation becomes necessary, the therapist coordinates and participates in areal-time virtual session with a PMVC psychiatrist and the patient.

You receive a clear, OHIP-funded consult note with treatment recommendations, fast.

You remain in the loop throughout, ensuring continuity of care.

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Hear first-hand how we’re helping primary care providers

“It saves a lot of time and stress”

A family doctor share what PMVC means in practice

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What PMVC has solved

Matching patients to appropriate services

PMVC ensures patients are matched with therapists based on clinical need—not guesswork. Every therapist is trained in Collaborative Care and equipped to guide the treatment pathway.

Enabling timely psychotherapy

Most PMVC therapists offer services covered by extended benefits or on a sliding scale. This makes it easier for your patients to get meaningful, ongoing care—without the rigidity or dropout risks seen in many public programs.

Making psychiatric consultation available when it’s needed

Because of our efficient, triadic care model, most psychiatric consults happen within a few weeks. Patients don’t need to wait months or bounce between systems. The therapist and psychiatrist collaborate directly in-session.

Why does your patient need to work with a PMVC therapist to consult a PMVC psychiatrist?

Every psychiatric consultation occurs with the referring PMVC therapist present. This ensures that:

psychiatric input is clinically relevant and grounded in context
the therapist can act like a guide, helping patients navigate the mental health journey with proper support and follow-up
patients are protected from fragmented, one-off consultations—promoting ethical, integrated care.

All direct psychiatric consultations are funded through OHIP. Fees for the psychotherapist are clearly outlined, frequently reimbursable through extended health benefits, and structured to allow flexibility when appropriate.

With PMVC, you’re not just referring a patient. You’re activating a whole team.

Contact Psychotherapy Matters

PMVC is always available to you—the primary care provider. There are several ways to contact us, whether for a consult or if you have questions about how PMVC works.

Phone: (905) 780-1470
Fax: (647) 699-9812
Email: md@psychotherapymatters.com
Psychotherapy Matters eConsult Group (sign in to the OTN Hub here)

Canadians deserve timely, effective mental health care

We’re not tech investors, and we don’t take a commission on therapist fees. Psychotherapy Matters is a social venture enterprise built by Canadian mental health professionals who are dedicated to building a truly collaborative and holistic approach to mental health care.

Learn more about the team behind Psychotherapy Matters

Help us do more

Support our advocacy for provincial funding of the Ontario Psychotherapy Benefits Program (OPBP)—a proposed initiative modelled on the Ontario Drug Benefit Program. This program would fund the work of therapists in the PMVC model and help ensure that high-quality psychotherapy is more widely available to those who need it.