Connected Counselling & Psychological Services
Where Connection, Healing and Identity Meet: Compassionate Support for Complex Journeys
It takes courage to start therapy. Our practice is rooted in respect, authenticity, social justice, and healing. Grounded in current, innovative, and effective approaches, we offer a counselling experience that honours who you are, and supports who you are becoming.
At Connected Counselling we are:
Passionate about exploring sexuality and gender identity; we’re kink aware and poly friendly.
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Committed to providing efficient and effective trauma therapy and mental health counselling
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Keenly aware of oppressive systems of power and how they perpetuate harm
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Proud members of the 2SLGBTQIA+ community in Southern Alberta
The team at Connected Counselling are members/providers with:
A collection of local businesses who all share the value that it is essential to create spaces that are welcoming, respectful and inclusive of trans and gender diverse folks.
provides 24/7, trained listener support, professional therapy & counselling services and educational resources to all persons working in the online adult entertainment sex industry
Financial assistance for trauma therapy in Alberta. Provides survivors of traumatic life events with the treatment and support needed to reclaim their lives.
Lethbridge Integrated Coordinated Access (ICA) provides information and forms for accessing counselling subsidies which may be available for members of the community and those supporting them.
An interdisciplinary professional organization which works to support the health, wellbeing, and dignity of trans and gender diverse people.
Provides eligible First Nations and Inuit clients with coverage for a range of health benefits that are not covered through other programs, including mental health counselling.
Regulatory college for the profession of social work. Please also see our Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics.
Serving the interests of the public and guiding the professions of psychology. Please also see our Standards of Practice and Code of Ethics.
As members of the queer community, clinicians serving the queer community, and as human beings allied with gender diverse folks--we explicitly resist discriminatory legislation, misinformation, and ongoing efforts to erase trans people. If you would like information on how you can do the same, please see our resources page.
Connected Counselling’s Practice Orientation & Anti-Oppression Statement
As we strive to become better guests on stolen and colonized Indigenous land, we expressly recognize that collective and individual wellness and concerns are connected to our environments, contexts, families, communities, and structural factors (ex. capitalism, colonialism, racism, sexism, homophobia, transphobia, ableism, fatphobia). As such we apply a holistic and social justice lens to our work with people as we attempt to navigate life in an increasingly fragmented society.
Land acknowledgements are often problematic, as words are performative when there is no action to follow.
With this in mind, we do acknowledge our work and personal lives exist on Niitsitapi, the traditional territory of the Blackfoot Confederacy - the Siksika, the Kainai, the Piikani, and the Amskapi Pikuni, as well as home to Battle River Territory, Foothills Métis District.
If you would like to know more about how you or your workplace can gain education and participate in reconciliation, Reconciliation Education is a good place to start. Additionally, the National Centre for Truth and Reconciliation is a valuable resource.
Locally, please support the SAGE Clan community patrol, Opokaa-sin Early Intervention Society, or search for other Indigenous-led and focused organizations.