Connected Counselling & Psychological Services

11/27/2025

🤷 If it works, it works.

Thanksgiving holiday 😂🙌🏳️‍⚧️

11/27/2025

Settlers, this webinar was created because too many of you are trying to “do the right thing” while still being run by colonial reflexes you didn’t choose… but CAN unlearn.

If you want your solidarity with Indigenous Peoples to move beyond theory and into your body, choices, and relationships, this is where that work can begin.

In this session, we break down the instincts that show up under pressure (the defensiveness, the distancing, the silence, the saviourism) and teach you how to transform them into practices that build trust, responsibility, and real connection.

If you’re ready to un*fck your conditioning and show up in a way that actually supports Indigenous Peoples and also offers you transformative healing, join us:

📅 Nov 26
⏰ 6 PM MST / 8 PM EST
📍 via Zoom
🧰 Includes the Relentless Indigenous Solidarity: Compassion Toolkit

Register through the RIW Patreon: Tier 3:
patreon.com/u71040194

Come with courage. Leave with clarity.

11/27/2025

Q***ring Mental Health conference now open for registration!! Amazing speakers and invaluable knowledge from clinicians with lived experience.

11/22/2025

pflag Canada joins , , ***rmomentum , and others in opposing the Government of Alberta’s invocation of the notwithstanding clause through Bill 9, which removes Charter protections from laws that will:

- Deny transgender youth access to gender-affirming healthcare
- Restrict discussion of sexual orientation and gender identity in schools
- Prohibit transgender girls and women from participating in competitive sports with their peers

This represents an unprecedented attack on the rights and dignity of 2SLGBTQIA+ Albertans, particularly youth.

Take action: Contact Premier Danielle Smith to express your concern at premier@gov.ab.ca

11/21/2025

In response to the Government of Alberta’s use of notwithstanding clause for the second time in a span of one month to protect a trio of laws that affect

11/20/2025

Beautiful and fierce. Today, on Trans Day of Remembrance, we expressly condemn the UCP's use of the NWC to further strip away the rights of Alberta's trans youth to receive life saving medical care. No matter what a government does--it cannot erase transness from our world. Trans people will continue to exist, live, thrive, and outlast every moment of hate and bigotry.

It’s , a day where we mourn and honor the people who have been murdered just for being TGI. Today is also a day where we recognize that, despite threats of violence and discrimination, the trans community still continues to thrive. Trans individuals everywhere are living their fullest, authentically.

As The National Center for LGBTQ Rights puts it:
not only means Trans Day of Remembrance/ Día Trans del Recuerdo, it also means:
Trans Day of Resilience || Día Trans del Resiliencia
Trans Day of Realness || Día Trans del Realidad
Trans Day of Revolution || Día Trans del Revolución
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Digital illustration of two people in front of a sunset. On the left is a Latina woman with braids, a pink shirt and jeans with their body wrapped in a trans pride flag. On the right is a fem with red hair, a black shirt that reads, ‘end trans detention,’ and a gray skirt wrapped in a le***an pride flag. In the background there are cempasúchil flowers in honor of those lost. Text reads, ‘Trans Day of Remembrance, Trans Day of Realness, Trans Day of Revolution!’

11/19/2025

Calling all Lethbians!

We are starting to organize next year’s q***r book fair in Lethbridge. Come help us make it better than last year.

If you want to be part of our organizing committee, DM us or email info@outreachsa.org

11/19/2025

Looking for 2SLGBTQIA+ resources for your students? We've created solid lesson plans for use in early years, middle years and senior years classrooms. You'll find them right here: https://buff.ly/mrn8F97

11/18/2025

We share in the heartbreak and outrage at such a gross and damaging move.

Alberta uses Notwithstanding Clause to perpetuate unprecedented attack on Trans Rights

Today, the Government of Alberta has introduced Bill 9 which uses the notwithstanding clause to restrict the rights of Two-Spirit, trans & gender diverse people in the province. This legislation is brought days ahead of Trans Day of Remembrance - a day meant to honour the lives lost to anti-trans violence.

Doing so is not only cruel but a direct form of institutional violence against trans communities.This law reaches into nearly every part of a young person’s life and restricts their access to health care, ability to learn, and right to participate in their communities. This is not theoretically or ideological - Behind every policy are real young people and families who’s rights, sense of belonging and very safety are being eroded by our very government.

Alberta has engaged in gross government overreach into the private lives of its citizens and has now taken the step of limiting the courts’ ability to hold it to account for its violations of the Charter. All Albertans and all Canadians should be outraged. Everyone deserves the ability to access health care, participate in sports and their communities, and live their life authentically.