Savneet Singh · New Westminster
Updated October 2, 2026
Counselling for New Westminster, with Savneet
Public mental-health care is in town here. The specialist you need is often over a bridge or a city line.
Savneet works with clients in New Westminster entirely by secure video. What changes is what getting to an appointment in person would have cost you, and that is the part this removes.
- First 30-minute consultation free, by video, with no obligation to book afterwards
- Individual counselling, $140 for 50 minutes
- Savneet does not offer couples counselling, EMDR or family counselling; Camille Granda does.
Paid at booking, with a receipt for your extended health plan; whether your plan reimburses it depends on the plan. Fees and coverage.
New Westminster is a small city with a large hospital. Royal Columbian is here, with Fraser Health’s Mental Health and Substance Use Wellness Centre on the same site, and adults can refer themselves to the city’s public mental-health centre on Sixth Street. On the public side, care is unusually close to home. The city itself is not large, wedged between Burnaby, Coquitlam and the Fraser, and that is where the private side runs out.
A city this size holds only so many counsellors, and fewer again trained in one particular approach. So a search that starts in New Westminster tends to finish in Burnaby, Vancouver or Surrey, which means a SkyTrain ride or a river crossing each way, every week. Video takes the crossing out of it. A Registered Clinical Counsellor anywhere in BC is as available in Sapperton as next door.
Her focus is anxiety, depression, trauma and attachment, personality disorders. Sessions run in English or Punjabi, including moving between them within one session.
For the fuller picture of accessing counselling from New Westminster: waitlists, the health authority, and what is available locally. See counselling in New Westminster.
Why a video session suits New Westminster
- No bridge, no SkyTrain transfer, From Queensborough, Sapperton or Uptown, the session starts in the room you are already in, with no crossing either side of it.
- Not limited to the city limits, A small city holds a handful of private practices. The search can run across every registered counsellor in British Columbia instead.
- Queensborough on the same terms, The island side of the city gets identical access, along with Sapperton, Uptown, Queen’s Park, Brow of the Hill and Connaught Heights.
- Fits a hospital roster, Sessions can be grouped into the weeks a roster leaves free, with a pause agreed in advance for the heavy stretches.
Sessions in English or Punjabi
Savneet works in English and Punjabi, 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 Savneet works with
Anxiety
Cycles of worry and overthinking, and a nervous system learning that it is safe to slow down.
Depression
Helping small steps and small moments feel possible again, without pressure to snap out of it.
Trauma and attachment
Trauma at whatever pace feels right, sometimes before you are ready to look at it at all; and attachment patterns, so the way you connect with others starts to feel like a choice rather than a reflex.
Personality disorders
Building a steadier sense of self without losing what makes you who you are.
Savneet may suit you if you are
- Managing everything on the outside, while quietly struggling on the inside
- Carrying trauma or attachment wounds that keep showing up in your relationships
- Stuck in patterns you recognise but cannot seem to shift on your own
- Not sure if what you are feeling has a name yet, and that is okay
- Wanting to work in English, in Punjabi, or moving between the two
Reaching out does not commit you to anything. We can start with a conversation and see if it feels right.
Questions people in New Westminster ask
Which health authority covers New Westminster?
Fraser Health. Adults 19 and over can refer themselves to the New Westminster Mental Health Centre on Sixth Street, with no doctor’s referral. None of that affects seeing a Registered Clinical Counsellor privately, and the two can run side by side.
Burnaby and Vancouver are close. Why not go in person?
If an in-person counsellor a SkyTrain ride away suits you, that is a reasonable choice. The difficulty is rarely the distance on a map. It is the crossing every week, on top of a working day, and a missed crossing is a missed session. By video there is no crossing to miss.
I live in Queensborough. Is that any different?
No. Queensborough is part of New Westminster on the far side of the Fraser, and sessions by secure video reach it exactly as they reach Sapperton or Uptown. Being on the island side changes nothing about access or fee.
I work rotating shifts at the hospital. Can sessions fit?
Yes, if it is planned for at the start. Sessions booked in blocks around a roster, with agreed gaps, keep the thread of the work better than a weekly slot that keeps being cancelled. The booking calendar shows each counsellor’s real open times.
Is there something free I should look at first?
Yes. Fraser Health’s mental health centre on Sixth Street takes self-referrals from adults, the Fraser Health Crisis Line answers at 604-951-8855, 310-6789 connects to mental-health support anywhere in BC, and 8-1-1 reaches HealthLink BC. Douglas College students in credit courses can see a college counsellor at no charge. The low-cost counselling page lists more. If one of those fits, use it.
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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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