Child Counselling

(12 and under)

Supportive services for children to help them understand and express their emotions, build coping skills, and navigate challenges in a safe and age-appropriate way.

Services Offered

Rapid Access

Counselling

Connect with a counsellor, often within a week, for a single session counselling appointment to help gain direction with an ongoing challenge or to support a current crisis.

Costs:

  • Pay what you can

Serving:

  • For all ages who are looking for single-session, change-focused counselling.

Available in English Only

Parent-Child

Counselling

Strengthening parent-child connections with attachment-based therapy that fosters trust, communication, and resilience.

Costs:

  • $97 - $220 per session

Serving:

  • Those looking to strengthen parent-child bonds amid emotional, behavioural, or developmental challenges.

Available in English Only

Compassionate therapy for children, using play-based and attachment-focused approaches to support emotional well-being, behaviour, and resilience.

Costs:

  • $97 - $220 per session

Serving:

  • Children experiencing emotional, social, and behavioural life changes.

Available in English Only

Counselling for Children and Their Adults

Counselling for children and their caregivers to strengthen bonds, support emotional expression, and manage behaviour through play and creative therapies.

Costs:

  • Low-cost, sliding scale structure (starting at $35 per session)

Serving:

  • Children (ages 4-12) and their adults/caregivers. Sessions can be booked for children, parents, or both.

Available in English Only

Online & In-Person

Counselling

Counselling sessions specializing in workplace stress and burnout, family relationships, health, children, parenting, ADHD, anxiety, and depression.

Costs:

  • Sliding scale fee based on different personal factors like income and circumstance

Serving:

  • All ages and demographics seeking support with emotional, mental health, or life challenges

Available in Multiple Languages

WHAT TO EXPECT

How  does it work?

Choose and book a session.

  You provide brief information on this secure site. Then choose the counselling time that works for you.   

Receive Confirmation.

You will receive an email confirmation. At your appointment time, the counsellor will call you. 

Your Counselling Session.

One 45-90-minute counselling session may be enough to address your needs. Other support options can also be discussed during your session.

Fee Structure


Community Connect YYC is committed to ensuring community members get the help they need when they need it, with as few barriers as possible, including finances. Some services found on the site are offered at no cost, some on a sliding scale basis, and others with a model that allows you to choose your own session fee. Every partner organization ensures that finances will never get in the way of accessing the service you need. For more information on the specific fee model of the service you selected, please review the service description or speak to the service provider with whom you book.

More about us

Connect with a counsellor, often within a week, for a single session counselling appointment to help gain direction with an ongoing challenge or to support a current crisis.

Costs:

  • This is a free service

Available in English Only

Rapid Access

Counselling

Kindred Connections Society

Sexual Health

Counselling

Centre for Sexuality

Confidential, solutions-focused counselling support for a range of sexual health, relationship, and identity-related concerns.

Costs:

  • This is a free service.

Available in English Only

Compassionate therapy for children, using play-based and attachment-focused approaches to support emotional well-being, behaviour, and resilience.

Costs:

  • This is a free service

Available in English Only

Child Counselling Services

Playful Connections Counselling Inc.

Counselling for Children and their Adults

Trellis

Counselling for children and their caregivers to strengthen bonds and support emotional expression and behaviour management through play and creative therapies.

Costs:

  • Low-cost, sliding scale structure, starting at $35 per session.

Available in English Only

Parent-Child Counselling

Playful Connections Counselling Inc.

Strengthening parent-child connections with attachment-based therapy that fosters trust, communication, and resilience.

Costs:

  • $97 - $220 per session.

Available in English Only