Specialty Services

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

Services Offered

Counselling &

Brief Therapy

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

Trans & Gender Diverse Counselling

Kindred Connections Society

In partnership with Skipping Stone, these 75-minute single-session (‘one-at-a-time’) counselling services are available for Two-Spirit, transgender, non-binary, and gender-diverse individuals and their loved ones.

Costs:

  • Pay what you can ($0 - $195)

Serving:

  • Two-Spirit, transgender, non-binary, and gender diverse individuals and their loved ones who are looking for single-session, change-focused counselling.

Available in English Only

Culturally Sensitive

Counselling

Provides 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 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

Newborn Behavioral Observation (NBO)

Kindred Connections Society

Feel more confident with your newborn through the NBO, a gentle approach that helps you understand your baby’s strengths and cues while building a strong, secure parent-child bond.

Costs:

  • This is a free service

Serving:

  • Adults (18+) looking to build strong, secure connections with their newborns.

Available in English Only

Anger Management

Counselling

Your Counselling

Affordable, individualized counselling to help clients understand anger, manage emotional reactions, communicate effectively, reduce conflict, and develop healthier coping strategies.

Costs:

  • Sliding Scale ($110 per 50-minute session through our sliding-scale counselling program)

Serving:

  • Adults (18+) seeking support with anger, irritability, emotional outbursts, or difficulty managing reactions

Available in English Only

Eating Disorders

Therapy

Your Counselling

Compassionate, specialized therapy supporting healthier relationships with food, body image, self-worth, and exercise through evidence-informed, trauma-informed, and weight-inclusive care.

Costs:

  • Sliding Scale ($110–$140 per 50-minute session, depending on the clinician selected)

Serving:

  • Individuals (12+) looking for support with diagnosed or suspected eating disorders

Available in English Only

Grief

Counselling

Your Counselling

Low cost grief counselling to help individuals process loss, develop healthy coping strategies, find meaning, and gently reconnect with daily life.

Costs:

  • Sliding Scale ($110 - $140)

Serving:

  • Adults (18+) looking for support with grief, loss, bereavement, caregiving, health changes, separation, or other major life transitions.

Available in English Only

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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