Count number of folders in directory and ignore shortcuts - powershell

Question

I have a script which will accurately tell me how many folders are in a directory, and the subdirectories within. However, for one directory which I am working with, there are shortcut folders which seem to cause the script to fail.
Below is the error message which I receive:
Get-ChildItem : Could not find a part of the path 'C:\Folder\SubFolder\folder1\jpos'.
At C:\Desktop\Script Files\fileCount.ps1:34 char:10
+ $items = Get-ChildItem C:\Folder\SubFolder\ -Recurse
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+ CategoryInfo : ReadError: (C:\Folder\SubFolder\folder1\jpos:String) [Get-ChildItem],
DirectoryNotFoundException
+ FullyQualifiedErrorId :
DirIOError,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.GetChildItemCommand`
The script runs fine for directories without shortcuts, but it seems to always fail when there are shortcuts within the directory.
Below is the code snippet for this section:
$items = Get-ChildItem C:\Folder\SubFolder -Recurse
$termFolder = ($items | Where-Object {$_.PSIsContainer}).count
Is there any way to skip over shortcuts or a better way to do a folder count?

Answer 1

(gci path |?{$_.Extension -ne ".lnk"}).Count
Shortcuts have .lnk extension and gci means Get-Childitem.

Answer 2

Just use -directory like this (for PowerShell 3 or +):
$items = Get-ChildItem C:\Folder\SubFolder -Recurse -Directory
$termFolder = $items.Count

Answer 3

If you don't need the directory collection folder subsequently in script, then you can simply use
$countDirs = $(Get-ChildItem -path c:\folder\subfolder -Recurse -Directory).count