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Online counselling in Surrey, BC
Online counselling for people in Surrey is with Camille Granda or Savneet Singh, both Registered Clinical Counsellors, by secure video in English, Punjabi or Tagalog depending on the counsellor, with a free 15-minute consultation and no referral needed.
Online counselling in Surrey is booked directly, in English or Punjabi, with no referral and no waiting room for anyone to see you in: a Registered Clinical Counsellor by secure video, after a free 15-minute consultation.
Also serving Guildford, Newton, Fleetwood, Cloverdale, South Surrey and the rest of Lower Mainland, by the same video sessions.
Updated
Many extended health plans reimburse a Registered Clinical Counsellor, depending on the plan, so check yours; MSP does not. Receipts are issued for every session, and the fees are published in full. On a calendar-year plan, sessions held by 31 December count against this year: using benefits before the plan year ends.
Surrey is one of the fastest-growing cities in Canada and home to one of the largest Punjabi-speaking populations anywhere outside South Asia. It is also a city where the mental-health conversation has changed enormously in a decade, and where a great many people still have not had it out loud with anyone.
Westpeak Wellness is rooted here. That matters less as a marketing line than as a practical fact about the work: you will not have to explain what log kya kahenge means, why moving out is not a straightforward option, or why a family's expectations carry the weight they do. That context is the starting point rather than something to be established first.
Who you’d see in Surrey
Taking new clients and seeing people in Surrey 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.”
Individual sessions are $140 for 50 minutes, after a free 15-minute consultation; card at booking. Every fee, and what plans reimburse.
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.
What is specific about seeking therapy in Surrey
The barrier here is usually not availability, Surrey has more Punjabi-speaking counsellors than anywhere else in BC. It is privacy. Punjabi-speaking counselling for Surrey is written about that specifically, why the counsellor who comes recommended is often the one connected to the people you would least want to know. In a community this interconnected, the concern people voice most often is not whether therapy works. It is who might see them walking into a clinic, and whether it will get back to family.
That concern is not paranoia, and it is not something to be talked out of. It is a realistic assessment of how information moves in a tight community. A fully virtual practice answers it directly: there is no waiting room, no parking lot, and no building. Nobody sees you arrive because there is nowhere to arrive.
The second pattern specific to this community is who tends to come first. Frequently it is the second generation: adults in their twenties and thirties who grew up here, carry the family's expectations, and are the first in the family to consider therapy at all. There is often no template and nobody to ask. That is covered in more depth on the page for first- and second-generation South Asian adults.
South Surrey has its own public door. On the Semiahmoo Peninsula, Fraser Health's adult mental health intake is the White Rock/South Surrey Mental Health and Substance Use Centre on Russell Avenue in White Rock, not the Surrey centre on 108th Avenue, and both accept a self-referral. The White Rock and South Surrey page covers the Peninsula itself.
Why virtual, specifically here
What changes when distance stops mattering
No one sees you attend
The most common reason people here choose virtual over a local clinic. No waiting room, no building, no chance encounter.
Punjabi, English, or both
Including switching mid-sentence, which is how a lot of people in Surrey actually think and speak.
Continuity if you move
Registration covers all of BC, so a move to Abbotsford, Vancouver, or anywhere in the province does not end the work.
Not sure which kind of support fits? A free 15-minute consultation is the fastest way to find out, and it is a fine outcome if the answer is a referral somewhere else.
Available in Surrey
Ways we can help
Individual
1:1 for anxiety, depression, life transitions, identity, family dynamics.
Individual Therapy in SurreyCouples
Gottman-informed: communication, conflict, connection, repair.
Couples and Marriage Counselling in SurreyAnxiety
The barrier here is rarely finding somebody. It is being seen walking in.
Anxiety Counselling and Therapy in SurreyTrauma
A great deal of what people carry here arrived with them, or with their parents.
Trauma Therapy and Counselling in SurreyDepression
It gets called laziness first, usually by the person experiencing it.
Depression Counselling and Therapy in SurreyQuestions from Surrey
Language, family, and the cost of the commute
Surrey is one of the most linguistically diverse cities in Canada, and the practical shortage is not counsellors in general. It is counsellors who can work in the language a family argument actually happened in. Being able to run a session in Punjabi is not a convenience here; it removes an entire layer of translation from material that is hard enough to say once.
The second thing a virtual practice changes in Surrey is time. Commutes across the region are substantial, and a weekly appointment requiring travel and parking is realistically a two-hour commitment rather than a fifty-minute one. That is frequently the difference between sustaining counselling and abandoning it in week five, which is a scheduling problem masquerading as a motivation problem.
The third is privacy within a community. Where extended family and community networks are dense, attending a local clinic can be a disclosure in itself. A session from home, with no waiting room, removes that consideration entirely.
Counselling in Punjabi, South Asian mental health and counselling for first-generation South Asian adults cover the specific ground this comes up on most.
Before you book
Will anyone in my family find out?
No. Counselling is confidential, and whether you tell anyone is entirely your decision. Because sessions are virtual there is no clinic to be seen entering. The only limits on confidentiality are risk of serious harm and a court order.
Can I have sessions in Punjabi?
Yes: in Punjabi, English, or moving between them within a session. You do not need to decide in advance which you want.
I live with family and have no private space. What do people do?
This is one of the most common practical questions here, and there are workable answers, a parked car, a session scheduled during a work break from the office, headphones and a closed door. It is worth raising on the consultation call so it can be solved before the first session rather than during it.
Surrey has plenty of Punjabi-speaking counsellors. Why look outside it?
For many people there is no reason to, and you would be told so on a consultation call. The reason people write in from Surrey is narrower: in a community this interconnected, the counsellor who comes recommended is often connected to the very people you would least want to know you are going. Confidentiality is a legal duty everywhere, distance is what makes it feel true.
I am the first person in my family to consider therapy. Where do I even start?
That is the most common position people arrive in from Surrey, and there is no template because the generation before did not have one either. A free 15-minute consultation is a reasonable place to work out what you are actually looking for, with no obligation attached, and if somebody else would be a better fit, you would be told that plainly.
Do my parents have to be involved if the problem is my parents?
No. Individual counselling is yours, and what you discuss stays confidential within the usual legal limits. Some people later choose to bring a family member into a session and some never do; both are ordinary. Nothing is disclosed to family because they asked.
Is there free counselling in Surrey, including for couples?
Some, and it is worth checking first. SFU Surrey Community Counselling offers free individual and group counselling to people who live in Surrey and the Lower Mainland, provided by Counsellor-Trainees in SFU’s Master’s program in Counselling Psychology under the supervision of registered counsellors and psychologists. Relationship struggles are among the concerns it lists, though couples sessions are not, and it does not see SFU students. Fraser Health’s Surrey Mental Health and Substance Use Centre on 108th Avenue takes self-referrals from adults 19 and over for assessment, treatment, and individual and group therapy. Free and low-cost counselling across BC lists more. Here, an individual session is $140 and a couples session $175, each 50 minutes, after a free 15-minute consultation.
Do you see people in Guildford, Newton, Fleetwood, Cloverdale or South Surrey?
Yes, on exactly the same terms as Surrey. Every session is by secure video, so Guildford, Newton, Fleetwood, Cloverdale, South Surrey and the rest of Lower Mainland are served the same way: a Registered Clinical Counsellor, a free 15-minute consultation first, and no travel at either end.
What does counselling cost in Surrey?
From Surrey, an individual session is $140 for 50 minutes, couples counselling $175 for 50 minutes and an EMDR intensive $190 for 90 minutes, and the first 15-minute consultation is free. The fee is the same anywhere in BC. Many extended health plans reimburse a Registered Clinical Counsellor, but whether yours does is plan-dependent, so check it for the RCC designation before the first paid session.
Who would I see in Surrey?
People in Surrey see Camille Granda, RCC, CCC, who works in English and Tagalog or Savneet Singh, RCC, who works in English and Punjabi. Each is a Registered Clinical Counsellor taking new clients by secure video, and the free consultation is with whichever of them you choose, so the person you meet first is the person you would work with.
Do you have an office in Surrey, or is it online?
Online. There is no office in Surrey or anywhere else: every session is by secure video, and the confirmation email carries the link. Nothing to install and no waiting room, so you can join from home, a parked car or a closed office in Surrey.
More in the full list of frequently asked questions, or see fees and extended-health coverage.
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Sources
- Fraser Health, mental health and substance use services
- Fraser Health, Mental Health Centres directory
- Fraser Health, Surrey Mental Health and Substance Use Centre (read 3 Oct 2026)
- SFU Surrey Community Counselling (read 3 Oct 2026)
- HereToHelp BC, mental health information
- Fraser Health
- HealthLink BC, mental health and substance use (8-1-1)
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