Counselling in Tagalog for Courtenay

In the 2021 Census 315 people in the Courtenay census agglomeration, which centres on Courtenay, Comox and Cumberland, gave Tagalog as their mother tongue, about 0.5% of the area, and 625 were counted as Filipino (Statistics Canada, 2021 Census Profile). That is real but small: small enough that people in it tend to know one another, and a long way from the Lower Mainland, where Tagalog-speaking clinicians in BC are concentrated. From the valley, the route to one in person has been the drive down-Island and a ferry.

That combination is the hard one. Talking to somebody from the community about a marriage, money sent home or a family argument carries a cost in a place this size, and talking in English means translating the feeling before you can describe it. Video removes both: a counsellor who speaks Tagalog and is not part of anybody’s circle here.

Sessions run in Tagalog, in English, or moving between the two as the conversation needs, which is what most bilingual people do without planning to. Nothing about the fee or the availability changes with the language.

Mas gusto mong basahin ito sa Tagalog? Ang profile ni Camille sa Tagalog.

Who you would be working with

Camille Granda, RCC, CCC: Registered Clinical Counsellor. She works with trauma, anxiety and chronic stress, grief, loss and life transitions, and her registration numbers are published in full on her profile so you can check them before booking anything.

There is also a page for Camille and Courtenay specifically.

Questions people in Courtenay ask

For the wider picture of accessing counselling from Courtenay: waitlists, the health authority, and what exists locally, counselling in Courtenay covers it. A posting, a drive down-Island, or two ferries from Hornby: counselling in the Comox Valley has to survive all three.