Why choose Green Snail?
Accessible - whether you prefer remote professional services for health reasons (including being COVID cautious - we are too!) or for convenience reasons, we are accessible anywhere in the world as long as you have web access
- Affordable, flexible fees/payment options - no office space means no paying commercial rent, for starters. As consumers of professional mental health services ourselves, we understand that many providers’ fees are prohibitive and are pleased to offer an alternative. We offer a limited number of sliding scale spots on a first come, first served basis - please ask your provider if sliding scale is available for you.
- Our providers are people first and professionals second - we are proud to offer an outside-the-institution alternative to mainstream psychiatric/mental health care while sacrificing none of the professionalism, training/credentials and expertise expected by the people we serve. We will never report you to authorities/emergency services without your explicit consent (though we will do so if you request it).
- Praxis makes for better care - we reject the institutional status quo that our work is limited to hours on the clock/in clinic or to when we are wearing our professional hats. While no one person embodies all lived experience, we specialize in working collaboratively with clients from a decolonial, LGBTQ+-inclusive, anti-racist and anti-ableist framework. In other words: you won’t find standard issue CBT here.
- We are fiercely LGBTQIIA+ and disability friendly!
About Green Snail Consulting Green Snail Consulting was founded in 2021 to provide accessible psychotherapy consultations to autistic adults and adults with mental health/psych diagnoses via Zoom/remotely. Our providers are fully licensed while choosing to work outside of formal institutions (eg medical, carceral, psychiatric) so as to foster collaborative, client-centered relationships and safe therapeutic spaces. Our work is inherently political in that we look to systems (social, economic, institutional) as responsible for barriers that prevent us from achieving our goals, not clients as individuals. If you are familiar with what institutional mental health services offer and are looking for an alternative, you’ve found the right place.
About Alex Jalics, MSW Alex Jalics, MSW is founder of Green Snail Consulting which serves autistic/ADHD adults of all ages with affordable and accessible distance/teletherapy. They hold an Honors Bachelor of Arts from the University of Toronto (2008, English and Critical Gender Studies) and a Master of Social Work from the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/Factor-Inwentash Faculty of Social Work (2010, Diversity and Social Justice).
Mx. Jalics is openly autistic, ADHD and nonbinary/queer.
Mx. Jalics’ 2010 masters thesis used a critical feminist discourse lens to analyze websites which provided reproductive health information targeted to young people (including hormonal and barrier contraception, as well as abortion) based in the US and Canada.
Known for infodumping to anyone willing to listen about why and how conservatives are bad (so we should get rid of them already) from age 13 - to founding Students for Choice at University of Toronto campus in response to freshly-re-elected George W Bush's replacing comprehensive sex eduction with Christofascist abstinence only programming at 19 - to refusal to tolerate colonizers, national socialist scum and real estate/stock market speculators in social media and other influential spaces, Alex brings decades of lived experience including navigating contentious spaces, organizations and individuals to meet this moment