Albertans are being asked this week to check in on their own mental health. 

A director with the Calgary Counselling Centre, Sarah Rosenfeld says they have a survey out that will help you determine how you're doing with things like sleep, diet and relationships.

"Just taking that three-minute self-assessment at AreYouFeelingOk.com can really begin that process for somebody to get access to services, get connected to a professional that give them some strategies, techniques, guide them in the right direction," she says. 

"Depression is the most common mental health issue but it's also one of the most treatable and people may not know that so the sooner you're able to get that help the quicker you're going to see results. It can affect anybody, depression, at any point in the life cycle so any age, gender, economic or social status, regardless of any of those things you can experience depression and actually one-in-four people may become depressed in their lives and that number may have increased over the period of the pandemic."

Federal data for 2021 shows 19 per cent of Canadians that were screened were positive for depression, up from 15 per cent in 2020.

Rosenfeld says the Calgary Counselling Centre is seeing people with family struggles, increased stress, inter-personal relationships that they're trying to navigate, and they've been able to meet that need without carrying a "wait list". 

That means once someone contacts the centre they'll hear back in two to four business days. 

She says after completing the survey there can be a recommendation for follow up or a strong recommendation for follow up or it may indicate no need for follow up and will provide recommendations to access services at the Calgary Counselling Centre or in your own community.

A Counselling Alberta initiative has been set up.

"It really allows every Albertan to have access to highly effective counselling without waiting and without any financial barriers and Counselling Alberta makes that available and affordable for people in the province and will make it easy and highly effective for people in those more rural outlying communities to get the services they need," Rosenfeld says.