Specialty Services

Customized support for individuals with unique needs, including newcomers, people with disabilities, and those navigating complex life experiences.

Services Offered

Supportive

Counselling

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

Costs:

  • This is a free service

Serving:

  • Individuals (13+) looking to explore identity, relationships, sexual health, and pregnancy options.

Available in English Only

Rapid Access Addiction Medicine (RAAM)

Support for those experiencing a challenge with substance use, including medication, peer support, counselling, and groups.

Costs:

  • This is a free service

Serving:

  • Individuals seeking support for opioid, or other substance use.

Available in English Only

Available in English Only

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Costs:

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

Counselling for men that centers around dignity, respect, and understanding. This program helps support men's mental health through a strengths-based, male-informed approach.

Serving:

  • Adult men (18+) who are seeking support for mental health, emotional challenges, or stress.

Canadian Centre for Men & Families

Individual Counselling

For Men

Adult Individual

Counselling for Men

Counselling for men that centers around dignity, respect, and understanding. This program helps support men's mental health through a strengths-based, male-informed approach.

Costs:

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

Serving:

  • Adult men (18+) who are seeking support for mental health, emotional challenges, or stress.

Available in English Only

Individual Counselling for Persons with Disabilities

One-on-one counselling (up to 10 sessions) for individuals with disabilities, offering support for trauma, grief, identity, mental health, and life transitions.

Costs:

  • This is a free service

Serving:

  • Individuals (16+) living with a disability which can include a condition that is permanent, degenerative, and/or temporary that limits or alters your abilities.

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

Culturally Sensitive

Counselling

Providing culturally sensitive counselling tailored to the unique experiences of newcomers and immigrant Black women and girls, delivered by Black therapists in a supportive, understanding environment.

Costs:

  • This is a free service

Serving:

  • African, Caribbean, and Black women (18+) who have arrived to Canada in the last five years who are navigating life transitions, emotional challenges, or identity-related stress.

Available in Multiple Languages

Newcomer Therapeutic Crisis Intervention (NTCI)

Single-session crisis intervention provided within 24 hours, followed by four weekly general counselling sessions to help stabilize clients experiencing psychological distress.

Costs:

  • This is a free service.

Serving:

  • Youth (12+) and Adults experiencing a mental health or emotional crisis, struggling with overwhelming feelings, or seeking emotional awareness and resilience.

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.

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