Associations, Support, Counseling and Education in Calgary

ALBERTA HEALTH SERVICES - CALGARY
"CREATING THE CIRCLE OF HEALTHY CHILD CARE"
Phone: 403-310-0000 toll free in Alberta
Website: parentlinkalberta.ca
If you are an unregistered child care provider, don't forget to pick up your FREE copy of "Creating the Circle of Healthy Child Care" resource at any Parent Link Centre. To locate a centre near you or for more information visitparentlinkalberta.ca or call 403-310-0000 toll free in Alberta.

ALBERTA HEALTH SERVICES – CALGARY
“GROWING MIRACLES"
Phone: 403-943-LINK (5465)
A reminder to all parents who do not have the "Growing Miracles - The First Six Years With Your Child" resource. Please visit your local Community Health Centre and ask for your FREE copy.

ANNIE THE NANNY
Phone: 403-836-5437 (KIDS)
Website: anniethenanny.ca
Is your kid's behavior getting to you? If so, Annie can help! Annie the Nanny provides advice and techniques to empower parents and help them with any behavior problems their child/children may be having. Trained and experienced, she offers in-home assessment and lots of support, while she works with parents to show them the keys to bringing up happy, confident, well-behaved children. Banish whining, bedtime battles, or other challenging behaviors. See her website for lots of free information and more!

BEYOND PACT & TERRIFIC TODDLERS
Community-based locations
Contact: Val
Phone: 403-241-8544
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Website: pact.9f.com
Beyond PACT is an on-going discussion group that provides support and information based on a healthy, respectful approach to parenting for parents and/or caregivers of toddlers (Terrific Toddlers) and children, five to 10 years (Beyond Pact). Participants choose topics of interest to them such as: discipline, communication, self esteem, or normal child development. Enrollment is continuous - begin anytime.

DENISE BOURGEAULT, REGISTERED PSYCHOLOGIST
224, 555 Strathcona Boulevard SW
Contact: Denise Bourgeault
Phone: 403-620-2183
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Website: westhillscounselling.com
Denise offers individual, couple, and family therapy. Some of the issues she works with are depression, anxiety, self esteem, healing from trauma and abuse, relationship problems, parenting, and spirituality. Her therapeutic approach is based on her belief that mind, body and soul are all interconnected and need to be in balance with one another. It is her desire to help people find that balance, and to find peace.

CALGARY HEALTH REGION PERINATAL EDUCATION PROGRAM
Phone: 403-781-1450
Website: birthandbabies.com
Over 30 courses for expectant families, dads, siblings, grandparents and even pets! Check our calendar or website for Baby and You for Moms, Daddies and Babies, Refresher Date Night, Sleep Workshop for Tired Parents, Baby Signing, Twins and Triplets, Childbirth Essentials and much more. Register early!

CALGARY LEARNING CENTRE
3930 20 Street SW
Contact: Reception
Phone: 403-686-9300
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Website: calgarylearningcentre.com
The Calgary Learning Centre helps children, youth and adults with learning literacy and attention difficulties. They provide diagnosis and support to those with learning disabilities, AD/HD and literacy issues. The library has the largest specialized collection on learning and literacy difficulties in Western Canada. Their website has free online seminars.

CHILDREN’S LINK SOCIETY
Phone: 403-230-9158
Website: childrenslink.ca
The Children’s Link Society is a resource service for families who have children with special needs. We connect families to supports and services as well as other families. Our Family Link Program provides opportunities for a family to meet with other families in an unbiased and non-judgmental atmosphere.

COBBLESTONE HEALTH LTD.
959 Canna Crescent SW
Contact: Judith
Phone: 403-287-2991
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Website: cobblestonehealth.com
Personal, caring, client-focused advice is what Judith Cobb/Cobblestone Health Ltd. specializes in. With nearly 30 years of experience working with fertility challenges, high-risk and healthy pregnancy, infants, children and adults with all types of health concerns, Judith will tailor make a wellness program to meet your needs drawing on many natural health disciplines including herbology, nutrition, iridology, biokinesiology, EFT, German New Medicine. Private consultations. Live workshops on natural health via internet.

CONTROL ASTHMA NOW!
Calgary Health Region
Phone: 403-943-9139
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Website: ucalgary.ca/icancontrolasthma
Don’t let asthma take your breath away! Visit the Calgary Health Region "iCAN" website for all your asthma information needs online - animated device demonstrations, medication questions, triggers, tools, links and more all at your fingertips. Learn how you can say "ICAN control my asthma now (iCAN)."

DONNA GOULD COUNSELING AND CONSULTING
Suite 202, 1235 - 17 Avenue SW
Phone: 403-228-1518
Registered Psychologist works with children, adolescents, and families in a holistic manner. Symptoms are viewed as originally adaptive behaviors, which have outgrown their usefulness. Service areas include self-esteem, trauma resolution (e.g. emotional, physical, sexual abuse),developmental issues, play-therapy, parenting issues, school performance and hypnosis for emotional and physical conditions.

ECKERT PSYCHOLOGY & EDUCATION CENTRE
Unit A, 2220 7 Avenue NW
Contact: Darlene, Client Services Co-ordinator
Phone: 403-230-2959, Ext. 33
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Website: eckertcentre.com; beaparentingpro.com
Is your child coming home after school feeling defeated and discouraged? As a parent, you know your children’s education is a priceless asset to ensuring their future happiness and success. Yet, for many children, school is a place that limits, rather than promotes, positive development. If you're worried about your child’s school progress, you need answers. Fulfill your child’s educational promise. Book a Comprehensive Learning Assessment today.

GO2
Website: go2calgary.com
Children learn from their parents. Set an active example.

DR. SUZANNE LEMIEUX
Clinical and Consulting Psychologist
Phone: 403-607-0747
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Dr. Lemieux is a mental health consultant with the Calgary Health Region. In her private practice, she specializes in the assessment and treatment of sexual problems; trauma and abuse; emotional difficulties (depression, anxiety, self esteem);relationship problems; and life transitions (e.g. balancing family and work). Evening appointments are welcome.

MACDONALD PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES
Suite 204, 908 - 17 Avenue SW
Contact: Dr. Brent Macdonald
Phone: 403-229-3455
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Website: mps.ca
Macdonald Psychological Services offers a full range of psycho educational assessments and counselling services. Using individual and family-oriented approaches to working with school-aged children, adolescents, and postsecondary students, Dr. Brent Macdonald brings over 15years of experience in working with issues including learning difficulties, attention problems, anxiety, and school-related strategy instruction.

MASTERMIND COGNITIVE TRAINING
Phone: 403-243-9533
Website: mastermindtraining.ca
At Mastermind, we enhance the underlying cognitive skills that lead to more proficient learning with three unique, dynamic and powerful programs that offer new hope to families. Developed by a leading team of psychologists, the effectiveness of these one-on-one programs is indisputable as they have been used in over 2000 schools, universities, hospitals and clinics to help with such skills as attention and focus, logic and reasoning, comprehension, language processing, auditory analysis (fundamental to reading and spelling), visual processing and memory. Call today to book your free assessment.

MOROZ CHILD PSYCHOLOGY GROUP INC.
2219 2 Street SW
Contact: Kelly Moroz
Phone: 403-541-1199
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Website: morozchildpsychology.com
Moroz Child Psychology Group Inc. is an amalgamation of Alberta Registered Psychologists whose expertise surrounds assessment, diagnosis, and treatment of children and teens. Our areas of proficiency surround the detection of Learning Disabilities, Giftedness, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, and Autism Spectrum Disorders. Treatment includes ameliorating Depression, Anxiety disorders, and Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder, as well as strategies for increasing compliance in oppositional children, and enhancing adolescent/parent communication.

NEW BEGINNINGS DOULA SERVICES LTD.
Phone: 403-990-3837

PARENTS AND CHILDREN TOGETHER (PACT)
Several community-based locations
Contact: Val
Phone: 403-241-8544
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Website: pact.9f.com
PACT offers discussion groups that provide support and information, based on a respectful approach to parenting, for parents and/or caregivers of children, birth to five years. In addition, PACT has a stimulating child-directed play environment for children. PACT is one program for you and your children to attend together. All programs operate from 9:15 to 11:15. Enrollment is continuous -begin anytime. Fun for kids! Great for parents!

POST NATAL HELPERS LTD.
Contact: Lynn
Phone: 403-640-0844
Post Natal Helpers Ltd. provides part-time childcare services for families with newborns, toddlers, preschoolers and/or special needs children. While we are in the home, the parent has the option to stay, to rest or to leave. Post Natal Helpers are available in the daytime as well as evenings and weekends.