Mental Health Professionals (Calgary Only)
- Calgary Counseling Centre: Sliding scale fee based on income. Ask for Sonam if you want a POC counselor
- Simply Counseling: Majority of the counselors are POC (make sure you check to see if Blue Cross/ insurance will cover)
- Verlyne Christensen (Counselling)
- Robyn Manzano (Counselling)
- Marwa Fadol (Psychologist)
- Natalie St-Denis (Indigenous Social Work Instructor)
- Charles Coleman (Psychologist)
Community Resources
- Elbow River Lodge (Calgary): The Elbow River Healing Lodge offers a full range of primary care services and visiting specialists to First Nations (Status and Non-Status), Métis, and Inuit peoples and their families.
- Awo Taan: A shelter for women fleeing abuse. Indigenous centered.
- QYOC - Queer Youth of Colour (Calgary): A collective dedicated to the safety of queer youth of colour in YYC -- Email is the best way to contact QYOC
- LGBTQ+ Newcomer Services (Calgary): Resources for LGBTQ+ newcomers.
- Recovery College (Calgary) Free mental health classes on a variety of subjects to help with your healing and recover. Indigenous smudge and resources are available. There are two Black peer support workers at the downtown location.
- Afros in Tha City (Calgary): Afrocentric community in YYC.
- Indigenous Services at CPL (Calgary): Speak with an elder. Dates and times listed in the link. Elder Adrian Wolfleg is a trained counselor.
- Healing Bones Lodge (Calgary): An Indigenous healing lodge centered on Indigenous healing and spiritual practices.
- Free Mediation and Conflict Resolution (Calgary): Not BIPOC specific but a valuable resource.
- Shades of Colour YEG (Edmonton): POC community resource based out of Edmonton
- Sum of Us Festival (California, USA): A wellness festival for Womxn, Trans and Gender Non-conforming folx.
Self Care Resources (Online)
- Rest for Resistance: Online QTBIPOC mental resource.
- Depressed While Black: Online resource for Black people with depression.
- Black Yoga Teachers: 20 Black yoga teachers with online classes.
Decolonial and Anti-racist Resources
- Action Dignity: Community empowerment and leadership development for ethno-cultural communities in Calgary.
- AROC: Anti-racism resources (particularly for organizations).
- Decolonial Reading List: Turtle Island.
- YYC Voices: VOICES is a coalition of people of colour–both trans & cis, queer and straight–committed to advocating for racialized and marginalized communities in the City of Calgary.
- Native Calgarian: Podcast about Indigenous issues in YYC
- The Unlearning Channel: Unlearning white supremacy and racism, one podcast at a time.
- Redirect: A program that works to prevent radicalization to violence through community education and awareness, as well as prevention and intervention. Not BIPOC specific.
Relevant Articles
- Ayana Therapy: App which matches you with a POC mental health professional (U.S. Only)
- Bystander Intervention - Do's and Dont's
- How to Interact with the Police
- How to Find a POC Therapist
- Microaggressions in the Therapy Room
- POC Therapy Podcasts
- How to Help During a Mental Health Crisis
- How to Receive Critical Feedback as an Activist
- Research Project Focuses on Black Mental Health
- Get Paid $250 for Your Personal Mental Health Stories