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Depression Counselling and Therapy in Surrey, BC
Depression Counselling for people in Surrey is with Camille Granda or Savneet Singh, both Registered Clinical Counsellors, by secure video, with a free 15-minute consultation, no referral, and receipts your extended health plan can process.
It gets called laziness first, usually by the person experiencing it.
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In households built on effort. The family that arrived and worked, the parents who did without so the next generation would not have to, depression is unusually hard to name. The vocabulary available for somebody who cannot get out of bed is moral rather than clinical, and the person applies it to themselves long before anybody else does. Ungrateful is the word that comes up most.
That framing is the obstacle, not the depression. What tends to help first is separating the symptom from the character judgement attached to it, and that conversation can happen in Punjabi or English, without the background needing to be explained from scratch.
Sessions are $140 for 50 minutes (BCACC’s 2026 fee guide recommends $140 to $175) and start with a free 15-minute video call, no charge, no card, and no obligation to book anything afterwards. Many BC extended health plans reimburse a Registered Clinical Counsellor; whether yours does is plan-dependent, so check it for the RCC designation before the first paid session. Fees and extended-health cover are set out in full.
Depression counsellors in Surrey: who you would see
Taking new clients for depression counselling 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
Savneet Singh, RCC
English and Punjabi · Anxiety, Depression, Trauma and attachment
Getting counselling in Surrey
Surrey is large enough that "in Surrey" can mean a forty-minute drive across it. A clinic in Guildford is not local to someone in South Surrey, and the SkyTrain does not solve it once you are east of the city centre.
Public intake runs through Fraser Health, and private practices cluster around the city centre and Guildford rather than spreading evenly. For a lot of Surrey residents the nearest practice with the right specialism is in Langley or Burnaby.
Public mental-health intake for Surrey runs through Fraser Health. That route matters if you are seeking publicly funded care. It has no bearing on seeing a Registered Clinical Counsellor privately, which needs no referral and no diagnosis. See how RCCs, psychologists and social workers differ.
Sessions in Punjabi as well as English, without needing the counsellor who speaks your language to also happen to have an office you can reach.
More on this city, including who else it serves and what the local picture looks like: online counselling in Surrey.
What depression counselling involves
The full picture: how sessions are structured, what the first one is like, and what it does not do, is on the page for online depression counselling across BC. If you are still working out what you need, the short questionnaire is a quicker route than reading all of them, and what to expect in a first session covers the part most people are actually nervous about.
Questions from Surrey
How do I know it is not just laziness?
Laziness is a choice with the capacity intact. Depression removes the capacity, which is why effort produces exhaustion rather than progress. The distinction is one of the first things worth working out properly.
Do I need medication as well?
That is a question for a physician rather than a counsellor. Plenty of people do one, or the other, or both, and counselling does not require a decision about it first.
Is depression counselling available in Guildford, Newton, Fleetwood, Cloverdale or South Surrey?
Yes. Depression Counselling by secure video reaches Guildford, Newton, Fleetwood, Cloverdale and South Surrey exactly as it reaches Surrey: there is no office to get to and the same fee applies however far out you are. Fraser Health is the public route for Surrey and the rest of its region; this is the private one, and it needs no referral.
More frequently asked questions, or book the free consultation and ask directly.
Other counselling in Surrey
- Couples and Marriage Counselling in Surrey
- EMDR Therapy in Surrey
- Anxiety Counselling and Therapy in Surrey
- Trauma Therapy and Counselling in Surrey
Depression Counselling nearby
The practice is virtual and covers all of British Columbia. See every city page, or the full list of services. Questions specific to Surrey are answered on the city page.
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Depression Counselling and Therapy in Surrey, without the travel
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