Suicide has become the second leading cause of death for Indigenous youth in Canada. Yet current mental health approaches have failed to adequately address this crisis because they rely on strict westernized treatment models that do not incorporate Indigenous understandings of health and healing. Additionally, the remote locations of most Indigenous communities combined with the high turnover rate of non-indigenous therapist act as barriers to the design and delivery of accessible and long-term mental healthcare programs. This research seeks to explore how cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT), a low-risk, evidence-informed treatment approach, can be modified to create a culturally-adapted therapeutic modality to be employed by community elders in Northern, Ontario. Previous clinical studies amongst a sample of Maori Indigenous show that a culturally-adapted variant of CBT, respective of spiritual elements and collectivist values, effectively reduced participants’ symptoms of anxiety and depression by as much as 90%. Another study trained non-Indigenous mental health practitioners in CBT using telepsychiatry modules which they then successfully employed to reduce depression amongst a sample of Indigenous youth in Northwestern, Ontario. This study goes beyond existing research to analyze how training community elders, as opposed to non-indigenous practitioners, in culturally-adapted CBT can better facilitate community-based healing. Elders are widely respected in most Indigenous cultures and already act as informal sources of mental health care. Therefore, it is hoped that training elders via online modules developed in collaboration with Indigenous therapists and knowledge keepers, will lead to a more accessible, culturally-appropriate therapeutic modality to improve Indigenous mental health outcomes.