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Search results for: Age: 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.
Autism Canada Empowering Connections
This initiative by Autism Canada and CN aimed to help reduce feelings of isolation and create meaningful connections for Autistic and neurodivergent people in Canada. Connection will be provided by Autistic-led staff with lived experience, ensuring compassionate, peer-informed care. The support line will be accessible through phone, chat, virtual meetings, and email, offering a welcoming space for empathy and understanding during challenging moments.
Calgary Association of Self Help
Community mental health centre that provides client centred, flexible services promoting the abilities of adults with mental illness. Funded by AHS. Nearby an LRT line.
Calgary Counselling Centre
Provides affordable counselling to individuals, couples or families. Sliding fee scale according to income and ability to pay. No waiting lists.
Canadian Red Cross Friendly Calls Program
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.
CanLearn AuDHD Coaching
Sessions are led by a trained and certified AuDHD coach and focus on building executive function skills, managing sensory challenges, improving self-regulation, and creating personalized strategies for success at school, work, and home. One-to-one coaching is available, with periodic & limited subsidized options for qualifying individuals.
Catholic Family Services
Affordable counselling providing sliding scale. In some instances the services could be free for some individuals and families.
Choose You Resilience and Wellness Centre
Choose You Resilience and Wellness Centre offers heart-forward, attachment-based counselling for children, youth, adults, and couples. Therapy is neurodiversity-affirming and trauma-informed to foster lasting growth and connection. The practice also provides psychoeducational and/or mental health assessments for youth and adults, blending clinical expertise with a strengths-focused lens. They also offer a community program for neurodiverse young adults that provides a welcoming space to connect with others. While its not a formal intervention or therapy group, its a facilitator-led opportunity to build friendships, share experiences, and enjoy meaningful activities together.
Community Connect YYC Vecova
Able to offer 10 sessions of one-on-one counselling with the person with a disability in support of various issues including trauma, grief and loss, life transition, relationship concerns, family stress, diverse identities (i.e., sexual, gender, cultural, racial, ability, age), mental illness, substance use, and a variety of other concerns. Your appointment will be an intake with a counsellor or practicum student for you to join a waitlist. For ages 16+ & free!
Connections for Families
Provides support for parents who have disabilities themselves, helping them to support their children.
Distress Centre
Free Counselling sessions (replaced Foothills Womens Resource Centre Counselling sessions).
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.
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.
Kawa Health
Kawa Health offers occupational therapy services for parents and caregivers of children with autism, with a focus on mental health, daily routines, and meaningful activity. They aim to complement family and child services by supporting parent wellness and resilience through both individual and group-based approaches.
McLennan, Julie | MA, CCPCPR
Offers mental health counselling for people who have had trouble with communication, relationships and finding their fit due to neurodiversity (Aspergers, ADHD, Highly Sensitive, Extreme Introversion). Sessions can take the form of messaging ($60/hr), video chat ($100/hr), offers online group sessions.
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
The Clubhouse offers programs and possible employment for adults to reintegrate into society.
Rural Mental Health Resource Centre
For Airdrie, High River, Didsbury, Strathmore, Okotoks, Black Diamond.
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.
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.
Thompson, Eaman (Amy) | MC:AT (Healing Arts Therapy)
Expertise in BIPoC counseling, neurodiverse counseling, career counseling, 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. Individual and group counseling offered. 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. Offers a free consultation for the purpose of checking to see if the services align with individuals insurance coverage.
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