Our Services
At Broken Gold Counseling, we provide a range of counselling services to support your mental health and well-being. Below, you'll find information about each service we offer. Our approach is tailored to your unique needs, helping you achieve lasting, positive change.
Individual Counselling
A variety of approaches are used for individual talk therapy, including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) and Narrative Therapy techniques. We seek to understand you and the context of the issues that you bring to therapy, and apply appropriate interventions and techniques to help you progress towards your goals.
Couples Counselling
Couples’ therapy will follow the Gottman Method and also incorporate ideas from attachment theory to help you understand the patterns that are present in your relationship. We are also polyamory-friendly and have an interest in supporting couples practicing various types of consensual non-monogamy.
For trauma-related issues, Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART) will be a main part of treatment, as this has shown to be quick and effective in helping clients process out trauma and lose the negative symptoms resulting from traumatic events.
Trauma Counselling
$1100 for 12-week program
DBT Skills groups and support groups are designed for people with borderline personality disorder and/or those who struggle with emotional regulation and their family and friends. Here you will learn the skills of mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation and interpersonal effectiveness. DBT Skills Groups are closed groups that run throughout the year up to a maximum of 10 participants. Groups are virtual and are open to residents of AB, ON, and NS.
Family and friends support groups are geared towards providing education to those who want to better support someone struggling with emotional dysregulation. These sessions offer an educational component with a focus on skill building, as well as a place of emotional and peer support for members.
DBT Skills Group
Single Session Workshops
$75 for 60-min | $100 for 90-min
Single session information sessions on specific topics related to mental health, such as boundaries, communication, goal setting, perfectionism, self-compassion, self-esteem, and perfectionism.
These sessions will be workshops that have a teaching focus and are designed to provide the participant with information on the identified topic. These are different than a therapy session, as less time is spent on processing problems; rather, the focus is on skill-building.
Eventually, these will be pre-recorded workshops that can be purchased through the site and viewed at your own pace. Prices can be reduced for booking more than one person for the same session.
Social Work Supervision
$125 for 60 minutes
Are you looking for supervision as part of your registration process? Supervision is available to BSW and MSW students completing their registration for the RSW designation, as well as those wishing to apply to the clinical registry of the ACSW.
Service Rates
Your mental health is a valuable investment, and we're here to help you prioritize it. We also offer options to help accommodate your financial needs.
Individual Therapy
60 Minutes
Online or in-person
$200
Couples Counselling
60 Minutes
Online or in-person
$200
ART Sessions
90 Minutes
Online or in-person
$250
Payment Methods
Payment is due in full at the time of your session. We accept payments in most forms including cash, credit card or electronic funds transfer.
A 48-hour notice is required to cancel your session, or you will be charged a $50 late cancellation fee.
Sliding Scale
We don't believe that a person's income should determine whether or not they get access to mental health support. In a commitment to maintaining an equitable practice, we offer a limited number of spots on a sliding-scale basis for those clients who may not be otherwise able to afford private counselling.
Insurance
Sessions are not covered by public healthcare, however, counselling provided by Registered Social Workers is often supported by extended health care plans. To make things easier, we offer direct billing with Alberta Blue Cross, GreenShield, Canada Life, Manulife, and Desjardins.
Workers Compensation Board Approved
We are WCB-approved to offer counselling for individuals experiencing psychological injuries from job-related incidents.