Wellness Tips

Wellness Tips and Resources

CMHA Resources

Peer Support:
Peer Support service provides the opportunity for anyone – individual, family member or professional – the chance to speak with someone with lived experience of mental health and/or substance use concern. By connecting with our peers you can make a connection with someone with lived experience, increase engagement and belonging, and move through the recovery journey to develop skills and build resiliency to stay well in community.

If you feel the need at all to reach out for support, please do, and leave a message – a friendly voice will phone you back!
Contact our Peer Support team: (403) 297-1402 | peer@cmha.calgary.ab.ca

Counselling Services:
CMHA Calgary offers counselling to family members or friends living and coping with a relative or significant other who is suffering from a mental health issue. We also offer suicide bereavement counselling for those individual survivors, families and couples to develop an enhanced understanding of their own grief process.

If you feel the need at all to reach out for support, please do, and leave a message – a friendly voice will phone you back!
Contact the Counselling team: (403) 297-1708 | counsellingintake@cmha.calgary.ab.ca

Recovery College Classes:
At Recovery College we use an educational-based approach to help people recognize and develop their own resourcefulness and awareness in order to become experts in their own self-care, make informed choices and do the things that they want to do in life. We will inspire optimism, encourage students to consider their future opportunities, and move towards a culture of personal empowerment and feelings of hope. All of our classes are developed and delivered in partnership with our peer supporters and students who are experts by experience: they have their own personal story of a mental health or substance use concern, or are supporting a loved one.

Available courses include:

Peer Led Virtual Discussion

Confront the Discomfort

Building Better Boundaries

Rethinking our Thoughts

Educational Workshops:
Adapted to support the many Calgary and area employees who are now working remotely from home, our top-quality, interactive workshops have been re-designed for engaging virtual delivery. These flexible workshops can be offered in 15 – 60 minute sessions, and are tailored to meet the unique needs of diverse schedules and work structures.

Available workshops include:

Stress Management and Healthy Coping:

Mental Health Awareness:

Contact the Education team to book a workshop: education@cmha.calgary.ab.ca

Additional Resources

Individual Resources

COVID Self-Assessment Link

Symptoms Chart

Text4Hope: A free Alberta Health Services tool that helps people identify and adjust the negative thoughts, feelings and behaviours a pandemic might provoke. Through a set of daily messages, people receive advice and encouragement helpful in developing healthy personal coping skills and resiliency. Text COVID19HOPE to 393939 to subscribe. Provided by Alberta Health Services

"Psychology Works” Fact Sheet: Psychological Impacts of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) – Provided by Canadian Psychology Association

Tips on talking to someone in crisis during COVID-19 – Provided by Mental Health Commission of Canada

On-Demand Webinar: Anxiety - Practical Intervention Strategies - Crisis & Trauma Resource Institute

VIDEO COVID-19 Stress, Distress & Trauma Series – Provided by Neurosequential Network

Resources for Children and Families

COVIBOOK for kids – A short book to support and reassure our children, under the age of 7, regarding the COVID-19. This book is an invitation for families to discuss the full range of emotions arising from the current situation. Author Manuela Molina

Tips for Helping Children and Youth cope effectively through the COVID-19 Pandemic - Provided by CMHA Calgary YouthSMART Educators

How to Talk to Children About the Coronavirus Pandemic - Provided by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.

Grieving Resources

Grieving a Coronavirus Death: Help for Special Circumstances - Provided by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.

The Pandemic of Grief - Provided by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.

Coronavirus and the Six Needs of Mourning - Provided by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.

Funerals in the Time of Coronavirus: Thoughts for Families - Provided by Alan D. Wolfelt, Ph.D.