Serving all of BC
Online counselling and therapy in BC, anywhere in the province
Westpeak Wellness is fully virtual, wherever you are in BC, you can work with a Registered Clinical Counsellor from the comfort of your own space.
Online counselling in BC is a scheduled session by secure video with a Registered Clinical Counsellor, from wherever in the province you are: Vancouver, Surrey, Victoria, Kelowna, Kamloops, Prince George or a town too small to have a counselling office. At Westpeak Wellness every session works this way, in English, Punjabi or Tagalog depending on the counsellor, with a free 15-minute consultation first and no referral needed.
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Anywhere in BC means anywhere in BC
Because there is no office, there is no catchment. A Registered Clinical Counsellor registered in British Columbia can work with clients anywhere in the province by secure video, under the same ethical, legal, and privacy standards that apply in person. Whether you are in a Vancouver apartment, a farmhouse outside Chilliwack, or a work camp north of Prince George makes no difference to the session.
The one requirement is that you are physically in British Columbia at the time of your appointment. Registration is provincial, travelling within BC is fine, travelling outside it is not. There is more on the evidence behind video sessions in the guide to whether online therapy is as effective as in-person.
People search for this as online counselling, virtual counselling, virtual therapy, telehealth and, most often of all, “counsellor near me”. They are all the same thing here. The nearest counsellor is on your own screen, whether that is in Port Moody or Port Coquitlam, in Peachland or anywhere else in the Okanagan, in Nanaimo or up-Island from Victoria, or in a town too small to have a counselling office at all. The cities below have their own pages because people there asked particular questions; the rest of the province is served exactly the same way.
How online counselling works here, in three steps
- Book a free 15-minute consultation. Pick a counsellor and a time on the booking page; the next open times are printed there. No card, no intake form, no referral.
- Talk, and decide. Fifteen minutes by secure video to say what is going on and hear how the counsellor would work with it. Nothing is diagnosed and nothing is owed.
- Start, at a pace that suits you. Weekly or every two weeks, at the open times the calendar shows, from wherever in British Columbia you happen to be. You pay per session and claim the receipt on your extended health plan; after a crash, ask ICBC about reimbursement before you start.
Who you would see
Taking new clients and seeing people anywhere in BC by secure video. Each is a Registered Clinical Counsellor; the registration is on the profile and can be checked on the BCACC register.
Camille Granda, RCC, CCC
English and Tagalog · Trauma, Anxiety and chronic stress, Grief, loss and life transitions
In her words: “I want sitting with me to feel like the biggest belly breath you have ever taken.”
Savneet Singh, RCC
English and Punjabi · Anxiety, Depression, Trauma and attachment
In her words: “Comforting, safe and supportive, is what I aim for.”
An individual session is $140 for 50 minutes and a couples session $175 for 50 minutes, paid by card when you book a session; the free consultation takes no card. Whether your extended health plan reimburses it depends on the plan. Every fee is on the fees page.
Why only 27 cities have their own page
Most counselling websites list every city in the province. This one does not, deliberately. A page about “counselling in [city]” that is identical to forty others with the place name swapped is not useful to anyone reading it, and search engines treat that pattern as exactly what it is.
So there are pages for the 27 places where something true and specific about accessing care there actually changes what the page says: the distances in the north, the cost of a ferry for weekly appointments, how far the search for a Punjabi-speaking counsellor can run. Everywhere else is served identically. There is simply nothing distinct to write, and pretending otherwise would waste your time.
Local context
Cities with their own page
Fraser Valley
Vancouver Island
Thompson-Nicola
Metro Vancouver
Eastern Fraser Valley
East Kootenay
North Island
North Shore
Not on the list? Look for your town below. If it is not there either, nothing changes: everywhere in the province is served on exactly the same terms.
Find your town
Grouped by the health authority that covers it, because that decides which public intake you would join. Each city page names the towns around it; the towns themselves have no page of their own and are served the same way.
Fraser Health
- Surrey: Guildford, Newton, Fleetwood, Cloverdale, South Surrey
- Abbotsford: Aldergrove, Clearbrook, Matsqui
- Burnaby: Metrotown, Brentwood, Lougheed
- Langley: Walnut Grove, Willoughby, Fort Langley, Brookswood
- White Rock: Ocean Park, Crescent Beach, Morgan Creek
- Coquitlam: Port Coquitlam, Port Moody, Anmore, Belcarra
- Delta: Ladner, Tsawwassen, North Delta
- Chilliwack: Sardis, Agassiz, Harrison Hot Springs, Hope, Yarrow
- Maple Ridge: Pitt Meadows, Haney, Hammond, Albion, Silver Valley, Whonnock
- Mission: Silverdale, Cedar Valley, Hatzic, Hatzic Prairie, Dewdney, Deroche
- New Westminster: Queensborough, Sapperton, Uptown, Queen’s Park, Brow of the Hill, Connaught Heights
Vancouver Coastal Health
- Vancouver: East Vancouver, Kitsilano, the West End
- Richmond: Steveston, Brighouse, Hamilton, Sea Island
- North Vancouver: West Vancouver, Lower Lonsdale, Lynn Valley, Deep Cove, Bowen Island, Lions Bay
Island Health
- Victoria: Esquimalt, Oak Bay
- Nanaimo: Parksville, Ladysmith, Qualicum Beach, Lantzville, Gabriola Island, Duncan, Chemainus, Port Alberni
- Saanich: Gordon Head, Cordova Bay, Royal Oak, Central Saanich, North Saanich, Sidney
- Courtenay: Comox, Cumberland, Royston, Union Bay, Fanny Bay, Denman Island, Hornby Island
- Langford: Colwood, View Royal, Metchosin, Highlands, Sooke
- Campbell River: Quadra Island, Cortes Island, Sayward, Gold River, Tahsis, Port Hardy, Port McNeill
Interior Health
- Kelowna: West Kelowna, Peachland, Lake Country
- Kamloops: Merritt, Salmon Arm, Chase, Sun Peaks, Logan Lake, Clearwater, Revelstoke, 100 Mile House, Williams Lake
- Penticton: Summerland, Naramata, Okanagan Falls, Oliver, Osoyoos, Keremeos
- Vernon: Coldstream, Armstrong, Spallumcheen, Enderby, Lumby, Cherryville
- Cranbrook: Kimberley, Fernie, Sparwood, Elkford, Invermere, Radium Hot Springs
Northern Health
- Prince George: Quesnel, Vanderhoof, Mackenzie, Terrace, Prince Rupert
- Fort St. John: Dawson Creek, Taylor, Chetwynd, Hudson’s Hope, Fort Nelson
There is a separate set of pages for Punjabi-speaking counselling by region, because what is available locally in Punjabi is a different question from what is available locally in English, and across most of the province the answer is very different.
Getting started
Wherever you are, the first step is the same
Free consultation
Fifteen minutes over secure video, at no cost. See how the free consultation works.
Fees and coverage
Session fees and what BC extended health plans reimburse.
If cost is the barrier
There is substantial free and low-cost support across BC that is worth trying first.
Before your first video session
What a virtual session actually needs from you
Less than people expect, and one thing more than they expect. The technical requirements are modest: a device with a camera and microphone, a connection good enough for a video call, and headphones, which do more for the quality of a session than any other single item because they keep the conversation from being audible in the next room.
The requirement people underestimate is a private hour. Not silent, not beautiful: private. A bedroom with the door shut, a parked car, an empty office. If you are managing who might overhear, you are not really in the session, and it is worth solving that before the first appointment rather than discovering it during one.
You are never required to be on camera. Turning it off is a real option rather than a concession. It suits camera fatigue, lower bandwidth, and anyone who thinks more clearly without being watched.
How private is the video?
Bookings and client records are held in Cliniko, the practice’s booking and records system, in an account on Cliniko’s Canadian region. Records are encrypted and access-controlled. Sessions are by secure video: the link arrives by email and opens in your browser, with nothing to install. Sessions are never recorded, not for notes, not for supervision, not for training. The privacy policy sets out the rest.
Why you need to be in BC for each session
No BC law requires a counsellor to be registered until psychotherapy is regulated on 29 November 2027, the date the College of Health and Care Professionals of BC (opens in a new tab) gives for licensure. The counsellors here are RCCs whose registration and insurance cover clients located in BC, and other provinces set their own rules, so sessions run when you are in British Columbia. If you travel, work rotationally out of province, or study elsewhere for part of the year, mention it and it can be planned around rather than discovered mid-course. It is also why you are asked where in BC you are, which occasionally surprises people who expected a virtual practice not to care.
Where a virtual practice is the wrong answer
Saying this plainly matters more than filling appointments. Without private space, a reliable device or a stable connection, a local in-person service will serve you better, and the BC crisis and support directory lists starting points in every health authority. This is also not a crisis service: sessions are scheduled and there is no 24-hour line. And where you need a diagnosis, medication or a formal assessment, that is a different professional entirely, psychiatry and assessment in BC explains those routes, and standards and accountability sets out the full list of what this practice does not do.
Whether video therapy works at all is a fair question, and one with a real research base behind it: the guide is online therapy as effective as in person sets out the evidence, including the places where it is weaker.
“Counsellor near me”, when the answer is virtual
A meaningful share of the people reading this arrived through some version of "counsellor near me", and for a virtual practice, the honest response is to take the question seriously rather than dodge it. What "near me" is usually asking for is reachable, soon, and legitimate: an appointment that fits your week, a practitioner accountable to a real register, sessions that do not require rearranging life to attend. Distance was always a proxy for those things, not the point of them.
Video sessions answer the underlying asks directly: bookable this week, verifiable in the BCACC register, attended from wherever you are in BC, and they beat "near" precisely where near fails: small towns, mobility limits, privacy from a small community, and therapy in Punjabi outside the Lower Mainland. Where an office genuinely matters to you, that is a real preference and the city pages below link honestly to what each community offers locally. For everyone else, "near" turns out to mean "on my laptop, at a time that works, with someone I checked out in two minutes."
Questions from across BC
Online counselling in BC: before you book
Is there a waitlist for online counselling in BC?
Here the booking calendar is the only queue: the booking calendar shows each counsellor’s real open consultation times, and the line under the button at the top of this page names the next ones when there are some. If none of the times suits you, the booking page has a way to ask for one. Public services are free and triaged, so they usually do have a wait; how long the wait for therapy is in BC compares the routes, and free and low-cost counselling in BC sets out the free ones.
Do I need a referral from a doctor?
No. You book the free 15-minute consultation yourself, with no referral and no intake form. Whether an extended health plan reimburses the sessions afterwards, and on what conditions, depends on the plan, so check its wording for Registered Clinical Counsellors; what BC extended health plans reimburse explains what to look for.
Is “counsellor” a protected title in BC?
Not yet. Today anyone in BC may call themselves a counsellor or a therapist, which is why the designation matters: a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC) has met the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors’ education and supervised-practice requirements, carries insurance and answers to a complaints process. Statutory regulation of the profession under the College of Health and Care Professionals of BC is scheduled to begin on 29 November 2027. RCC, psychologist or social worker covers the difference, and how to check a counsellor in BC shows how to look one up.
I am already a client. Where do I sign in?
The client portal is where current clients sign in to book a session and manage their appointments. New clients do not need an account to start: the free consultation is booked straight from the calendar.
Same care, wherever you are in BC
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