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Depression Counselling and Therapy in Vancouver, BC
Depression Counselling for people in Vancouver 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.
In Vancouver, grieving a future that got priced out is not the same as failing at it.
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A particular version of low mood shows up in Vancouver: people who are working hard, earning reasonably, and watching the life they assumed they were building become arithmetically impossible. The house, the space, the timeline for children. That is a real loss rather than a distorted thought, and treating it as faulty thinking is both wrong and insulting.
What the work can do is separate the grief, which is proportionate, from what has grown around it. The withdrawal, the comparison, the conclusion that the shortfall is a personal failure rather than a market. The first is worked with. The second is what tends to be doing the damage.
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 Vancouver: who you would see
Taking new clients for depression counselling and seeing people in Vancouver 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 Vancouver
Vancouver has more counsellors per resident than anywhere else in the province, and the constraint is almost never distance. It is that the ones taking new clients are booked, and the commute to a downtown or Kitsilano office at rush hour costs more time than the session itself.
There is no shortage of private practices here. What there is a shortage of is openings: the practices with the strongest reputations tend to hold waitlists, and a clinic that can see you this month is often one you found because nobody else could take you.
Public mental-health intake for Vancouver runs through Vancouver Coastal 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.
Removing the commute is not a small convenience in this city. A 50-minute session that costs ninety minutes of travel either side is the appointment people quietly stop attending around week six.
More on this city, including who else it serves and what the local picture looks like: online counselling in Vancouver.
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 Vancouver
Is it depression if my situation is genuinely difficult?
It can be both. A reasonable response to hard circumstances and a depressive pattern can run at the same time, and the second is the part that responds to this work.
Will I be told to think positively?
No. Reframing a real constraint as an attitude problem is neither accurate nor useful, and it is not what happens here.
Is depression counselling available in East Vancouver, Kitsilano or the West End?
Yes. Depression Counselling by secure video reaches East Vancouver, Kitsilano and the West End exactly as it reaches Vancouver: there is no office to get to and the same fee applies however far out you are. Vancouver Coastal Health is the public route for Vancouver 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 Vancouver
- Couples and Marriage Counselling in Vancouver
- EMDR Therapy in Vancouver
- Anxiety Counselling and Therapy in Vancouver
- Trauma Therapy and Counselling in Vancouver
Depression Counselling nearby
- Depression Counselling and Therapy in Surrey
- Depression Counselling and Therapy in Burnaby
- Depression Counselling and Therapy in North Vancouver
The practice is virtual and covers all of British Columbia. See every city page, or the full list of services. Questions specific to Vancouver are answered on the city page.
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Depression Counselling and Therapy in Vancouver, without the travel
A free 15-minute video call, in English, Punjabi or Tagalog. No charge, no card, and no obligation to book anything afterwards.
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