Counselling in Tagalog for Richmond

Richmond has real counselling capacity, and it is built, correctly, around the city's Chinese-speaking communities. For a Tagalog speaker the local field is much thinner than the size of the city suggests, and people routinely search Vancouver or Surrey instead.

The airport and the port are also large Filipino employers here, on rosters that change. A session you can attend from home between shifts is worth more than one you could theoretically drive to.

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 her registration with BCACC before booking anything.

From Richmond, an individual session with Camille is $140 for 50 minutes, whether it runs in Tagalog or English, and it starts with the free 15-minute consultation. Fees and extended-health coverage has the couples and EMDR fees; many plans reimburse a Registered Clinical Counsellor, depending on the plan.

There is also a page for Camille and Richmond specifically.

Questions people in Richmond ask

For the wider picture of accessing counselling from Richmond: waitlists, the health authority, and what exists locally, counselling in Richmond covers it. A large, multilingual city, where the counsellor who fits may be in Richmond or anywhere else in BC.

Other BC cities with a page of their own on Tagalog-speaking counselling: Tagalog counselling in Delta, Tagalog counselling in Langford and Tagalog counselling in White Rock. The sessions are the same from Richmond as from each of them.