--- title: Abilities | The BEACON solution description: "Abilities Magazine featured BEACON in their FYI: What You Need To Know section of the Winter 2017/2018 issue." image: https://www.mindbeacon.com/hubfs/14-1.png --- # Abilities | The BEACON solution Posted by [ the MindBeacon team](https://www.mindbeacon.com/news-media/author/the-mindbeacon-team) - [Tweet](https://twitter.com/share) **Originally published in Abilities: Inspiration, Information and Opportunity for Canadians with Disabilities, Winter 2017/2018.** [![Abilities Magazine.png](https://www.mindbeacon.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Abilities%20Magazine.png?width=298&height=96&name=Abilities%20Magazine.png)](http://www.bluetoad.com/publication/?i=463568&pre=1#{"issue_id":463568,"page":8}) Toronto Bay Street executive Sam Duboc has launched BEACON, a company which uses technology that takes cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) sessions out of the therapist's office and puts them online. 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