Mental Health Organizations / Resources

 

Access Mental Health: If you have serious mental health (Mental illness) issues and need ongoing case management, medication, or are an eminent risk to yourself or others. Access Mental Health is a non-urgent service.

 

Autism Calgary Counselling Services: Autism Calgary provides individual and family counselling with a Registered Provisional Psychologist with experience and knowledge of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) and mental health. In-person and virtual sessions are available for residents across Alberta. Sliding fee scale and FSCD rate available.

 

Calgary Counselling Centre: Provides individual and group counselling services to individuals on a sliding pay scale. Prices range from $8 – $180 per session depending on income amount. Clients can self refer or have a referring agency.

 

Canadian Red Cross: Friendly Calls Program matches people over the age of 18 with trained Red Cross personnel who connect with them regularly to check in, provide emotional support, encourage healthy coping strategies, and suggest well-being resources and community connections to other existing services.

 

Cerebral Palsy Alberta: Cerebral Palsy Alberta wants you to know it’s okay to not be okay. Reach out to their Support Services Monday – Friday between 8AM and 4PM if you feel the need. They’re there if you need them, whether you’re crisis, feel overwhelmed, or just want to talk. Connect with Kimberly or Tara in a way that is comfortable to you.

 

Cultivate: Provides mental health assessments, individual and group counselling. Rates are $200/hr, however, they also have a sliding scale to provide lower rates for services.

 

Eastside Community Mental Health Services (ECMHS): ECMHS- formerly known as the Community Resource Team and Eastside Family Center- serves as an Open Access Mental Health Hub, providing Crisis Counselling, Single Session Therapy, and System Navigation Support. Immediate crisis and intake support can be accessed by calling 403-299-9699 from 8 am to 11 pm, texting (587-315-5000), or chatting (woodshomes.ca) from 9 am to 10 pm. Services are delivered by an integrated ethnocultural team of professionals with proficiency in multiple languages. Both virtual and in-person support is available through scheduled appointments and walk-ins at their primary location, Northgate Village Mall, Office 255, as well as at three Calgary Public Libraries (Crowfoot, Shawnessy, and Central Public Libraries).

 

Elements Calgary Mental Health: Provides ongoing case management and free counselling for individuals with disabilities alongside a diagnosis of some sort (ADHD, Anxiety, Depression etc). Clients can call to book an intake meeting, or attend the Wednesday drop-in intake sessions.

 

Equine Facilitated Wellness: Provides an opportunity for people to partner with a horse on the journey towards Emotional Growth, Self- Awareness and Healing. Horses offer us genuine, honest, authentic feedback which provides a unique opportunity for personal growth. Rein Forth offers one on one Equine Facilitated wellness sessions, Group workshops, Summer Camps and Team Builds as well as some Introductory Western Pleasure riding lessons. Bookings as available.

 

Foothills Professional Services (NW Calgary): Provides intake assessment, psychiatric consultation, individual and or group therapy, managing medication, transition services (e.g. Independent Living Support), case management.

 

Mosaic Primary Care Network (PCN): Provides services for individuals concerned with their mental, emotional, and physical well-being. Individuals need to be referred by a clinician who works within the Primary Care Network. Once an individual has seen a PCN clinician, they can asked to be referred to a Mental Health Therapist. The Mental Health Therapists can provide up to 6 free 45 minute sessions.

 

Nurture Nest Art Therapy & Education: Professional Art Therapists & members of the Canadian Art Therapy Association who specialize in working with neurodivergent children, youth and adults and their families. They provide art psychotherapy and art education with online and in person options available. Also offering creativity for wellness arts workshops for organizations and for those who work in caring professions. Their Art therapy aims to support with: behavioural issues, depression, ADHD, autism, learning disabilities, anger management, grief and loss, anxiety and stress, interpersonal issues such as bullying and isolation, trauma and abuse, attachment difficulties, sibling and family dynamics and identity exploration. No prior art experience is needed! Currently no waitlist.

 

Potential Place Clubhouse: Clubhouse offers programs and possible employment for adults to reintegrate into society.

 

Sacred Warrior Consulting: This organization is a pre-approved FSCD service provider, both for families who have children with neurodiversity and for neurodiverse adults. They offer behavioural consultation, parent coaching, and life coaching, using both indigenous and mainstream Western methods of practice. No diagnosis is necessary to access services these services, though it might be necessary in order to access governmental funding support. This organization also strives to keep fees at an affordable rate, in recognition of the fact that access to funding and support can be very challenging, especially as Indigenous heritage can add an extra layer of legal complexity.

 

Sheldon Chumir (SW Calgary): Provides mental health CRISIS assessment and psychosocial interventions on a walk-in basis. Urgent Mental Health conditions may include: depression, anxiety, thoughts of suicide or harming oneself, overwhelming stress, addictions, or other situations that cause a person to be in crisis.

 

Society for Autism Support and Services: Provides counselling for individuals with ASD. Individual, family, and group counselling available. Sliding scale fee available. For more information or to begin the intake please contact via phone or email.

 

South Calgary Health Centre: Provides single, 1 hour walk-in session counselling for free (if clients bring their Alberta Health Care Card). No prescriptions, no meds reviews, we counsel couples, depression and anxiety presenting problems.

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Counsellors

Gruber, Teunisje | BScOT, MC, Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC), Registered Occupational Therapist (OT)

• Assessment: Sensory Processing Disorder
• Area of Expertise: Autism spectrum disorders, sensory processing disorder, ADHD, executive functions, mental health conditions (e.g. anxiety, depression, electronic addiction), adult transition, parenting children with special needs, stress management, emotional regulation,  and non-dominant cultural groups (e.g. race/ethnicities, religions, sexual orientations, gender identities, neuro-diversities, abilities, etc.)
• Counselling: Individuals, caregivers/parents, groups
• Therapies: Acceptance and commitment therapy; mindfulness; emotion focused therapy; cognitive behaviour therapy; motivational interviewing; occupational therapy for sensory processing differences and life skill development (e.g., independent living skills, social skills, education, and work)
• Ages Served: Adolescents and adults
• Costs: $130.00 per hour; Sliding scale fee available

 

McLennan, Julie | MA, CCPCPR: Offers mental health counselling for people who have had trouble with communication, relationships and finding their fit due to neurodiversity (Asperger’s, ADHD, Highly Sensitive, Extreme Introversion). Sessions can take the form of messaging ($60/hr), video chat ($100/hr), offers online group sessions.

 

Thompson, Eaman (Amy) | MC:AT (Healing Arts Therapy)

• Assessment: N/A
• Area of Expertise: BIPoC counselling, neurodiverse counselling, career counselling, service navigation/accessibility, communication, stress management, career transitions, anxiety, depression, anger management, body image/self-esteem, identity and life transitions, sexuality and relationships, grief, and trauma
• Counselling: Individual Sessions and Group Workshops
• Therapies: Primary focus on narrative- and arts-based approaches, in addition to an investment in trauma-informed, humanistic, person-centered, and mindfulness approaches. Also has experience and training with cognitive behavioural therapy, solution-focused brief therapy, dialectical behavioural therapy, and acceptance and commitment therapy
• Ages Served: Adults, and mature adolescents on a case-by-case basis
• Costs: Offers two session lengths: 45 minute ($125/session) and 90 minutes ($225/session). Also offers some discounts (e.g., student, Covid rates, etc.). Additionally, offers a free consultation for the purpose of checking to see if the services align with individuals’ insurance coverage