Counselling in Tagalog for Mission

In the 2021 Census 210 Mission residents gave Tagalog as their mother tongue, about 0.5% of the town, and 480 were counted as Filipino (Statistics Canada, 2021 Census Profile). This page does not pretend that is Surrey or Abbotsford. At that size the problem is not a long list to get onto but that there may be nobody local to ask, and a relative can end up translating at exactly the appointments where privacy matters most.

Smallness also makes privacy harder. When the Filipino community in town is a few hundred people who know each other, the people most likely to recognise you are also the ones you would most want to choose whether to tell. A counsellor elsewhere in the province, by video, with no office anywhere, takes both of those questions off the table.

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 Mission specifically.

Questions people in Mission ask

For the wider picture of accessing counselling from Mission: waitlists, the health authority, and what exists locally, counselling in Mission covers it. Counted with the Fraser Valley, though nearly four in ten of its workers spend the working day outside it.