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Search results for: Age: 0-18 | Category: Mental Health Resources
Access Mental Health
Call Centre, if you have serious issues due to mental illness and need help with either case management, medication, eminent risk. GP and self referrals.
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. For ages 10 and older. In-person and virtual sessions are available for residents across Alberta. Sliding fee scale and FSCD rate available.
Calgary Counselling Centre
Provides affordable counselling to individuals, couples or families. Sliding fee scale according to income and ability to pay. No waiting lists.
Calgary SCOPE Society
Provides counselling for parents and families who have a child ages 0-18 with a disability. To be eligible, families need to have approved counselling hours included in their childs FSCD contract. Counselling hours will be billed directly through FSCD.
Catholic Family Services
Affordable counselling providing sliding scale. In some instances the services could be free for some individuals and families.
Distress Centre
Free Counselling sessions (replaced Foothills Womens Resource Centre Counselling sessions).
Early Childhood Mental Health Outreach
Provides 10 sessions with parents and their child. Referrals can be from doctors, pediatricians, or school and preschool providers.
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).
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.
Fox Mori, Provisional Psychologist & Canadian Certified Counsellor (CCC) – Mindful Mage Counselling
Fox provides trauma-informed, neurodivergent-affirming counselling for youth and adults, with a special focus on autistic and ADHD individuals navigating stress, burnout, social connection, and identity formation. As a neurodivergent and Indigenous counsellor himself, he prioritizes relational safety, emotional pacing, and shared language in sessions.His practice draws heavily from narrative therapy (NT), dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT), and mindfulness-based approaches. This approach integrates gaming metaphors, storytelling, and character-based explorations for individuals and families who connect with video games, anime, or fantasy worlds. Fox offers individual and couple therapy, as well as psychoeducation and support for parents and/or partners of neurodivergent adults. For Indigenous clients, Fox uses a two-eyed seeing approach that integrates land-based values, smudging, and cultural teachings, blending both Indigenous views and Western psychological practices.
Jewish Family Services Calgary
Counseling offered on a sliding scale. They see individuals and support for anxiety, depression, loss.
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.
Rural Mental Health Resource Centre
For Airdrie, High River, Didsbury, Strathmore, Okotoks, Black Diamond.
Strongest Families
From Nova Scotia. Over-the-phone mental health support. Accessible to all provinces.
Sunrise Native Addiction Services
Indigenous-based addictions program through education, prevention and treatment.
The Summit, Marian & Jim Sinneave Centre for Youth Resilience
Designed and built to provide mental health services for children and youth. The centre offers therapeutic support through a day hospital and community-based treatment. It also provides walk-in services for anyone under 18 years of age and their family who would like to speak with a counsellor. Walk in services do not require a referral.
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