Camille Granda · Kelowna
Counselling for Kelowna, with Camille
The Okanagan's population has grown faster than its mental-health services have — and specialist options remain thin.
Camille works with clients in Kelowna entirely by secure video, so nothing about the fee, the availability or the work changes with where you live. What changes is what getting to an appointment in person would have cost you — and that is the part this removes.
Kelowna has grown quickly, and it has grown in a specific way: retirees, remote workers who left the coast, students at UBC Okanagan, and a large seasonal workforce in agriculture and tourism. Health and social services have not expanded at the same pace, and mental health is where that gap shows most clearly.
The result is that local options exist but fill up, and the specialist end — a particular modality, a particular language — is thin enough that many people do without.
Her focus is trauma, anxiety and chronic stress, grief, loss and life transitions. Sessions run in English or Tagalog, including moving between them within one session.
For the fuller picture of accessing counselling from Kelowna — waitlists, the health authority, and what is available locally — see counselling in Kelowna.
Why a video session suits Kelowna
- Reaches specialisation that is not local — Modality and language options that the Central Okanagan list does not currently include.
- Works around seasonal peaks — Evening appointments by request, and no travel time either side of the session.
- Covers the wider Okanagan — West Kelowna, Vernon, Penticton, and the smaller Interior communities where local coverage thins further.
- Continues through evacuation or travel — Anywhere in BC with a connection — which in a wildfire season is not a hypothetical benefit.
Sessions in English or Tagalog
Camille works in English and Tagalog, including moving between them inside one session. For a lot of people that is the difference between explaining a feeling and being understood the first time — and it does not require travelling to a bigger city to find it.
What Camille works with
Trauma
Difficult or overwhelming experiences, worked through at a pace you set — building safety and a sense of control first, rather than going straight at the hardest thing.
Anxiety and chronic stress
The patterns underneath high-functioning anxiety, perfectionism and burnout. The kind almost nobody around you can see, because you are still delivering.
Grief, loss and life transitions
Room for the changes you chose and the ones you did not — endings, identity shifts, and the uncertainty that arrives with them.
You do not need to have everything figured out before you start. Sometimes knowing that something is not working any more is enough of a reason to begin.
Questions people in Kelowna ask
Do you work with people in Vernon, Penticton, or West Kelowna?
Yes. The practice covers all of British Columbia, so anywhere in the Okanagan works identically — and smaller communities gain the most, since local options are thinnest there.
Can I get counselling about wildfire evacuation or loss?
Yes. Evacuation, property loss, and repeated seasons of alert are legitimate reasons to seek support, and the fact that a whole community experienced it does not make your response to it less real.
I work the season. Can sessions stop and start?
Yes, and in the Okanagan that is the normal pattern rather than the exception. Agricultural and hospitality work here runs on a season, and a schedule assuming the same weekday at the same time for six months straight does not survive contact with it. Booking block by block, with gaps, works — and nothing is lost by pausing. Better to plan for that than to book weekly, miss three, and conclude counselling did not suit you.
Is there a free option I should try first?
CMHA Kelowna runs a free virtual counselling programme for adults 25 and over, and it is worth looking at before paying for anything. Interior Health also provides mental-health and substance-use services across the Okanagan. Both are real options and this page is not an argument against using them.
Can sessions be in Tagalog?
Yes — in English or Tagalog, or moving between them as the conversation needs. Most people switch without planning to, particularly when something is hard to say, and nothing about the session requires picking one and staying there.
Camille also works with
The same practice, the same fee and the same availability — only the journey you are not making changes.
This is not a crisis service. If you need urgent support in BC right now: Emergency services 911 · Suicide Crisis Helpline 9-8-8. In immediate danger, call 911.
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