--- title: "Tagalog Counselling in Richmond, BC" description: "Counselling in Tagalog or English for Richmond, by secure video with a Registered Clinical Counsellor. Free 15-minute consultation." url: https://www.westpeakwellness.com/tagalog-counselling/richmond lang: en-CA section: "Tagalog counselling · Richmond" date_modified: 2026-10-17 publisher: "Westpeak Wellness" publisher_type: "Registered Clinical Counsellor practice, British Columbia, Canada" delivery: "secure video only; no in-person office" not: "not a crisis service; not a medical practice; not covered by MSP" contact: info@westpeakwellness.com source_html: https://www.westpeakwellness.com/tagalog-counselling/richmond index_of_site: https://www.westpeakwellness.com/llms.txt license: "Content © Westpeak Wellness. Quote with attribution and a link." --- # Counselling in Tagalog for Richmond Westpeak Wellness offers counselling in Tagalog or English for Richmond, by secure video with a Registered Clinical Counsellor who is a native Tagalog speaker. Sessions cover anxiety, trauma, grief, family and immigration stress, and can move between the two languages within the hour. The first 15-minute consultation is free. Local provision is built around Cantonese and Mandarin; Tagalog speakers are looking somewhere else. Updated October 17, 2026 [Book a free consultation with a Tagalog-speaking counsellor](https://www.westpeakwellness.com/book?with=camille-granda#calendar) [All areas](https://www.westpeakwellness.com/tagalog-counselling) 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](https://www.westpeakwellness.com/practitioners/camille-granda/tl). [![Three columns: Tagalog holding memory, family and feeling; English offering distance and the vocabulary of work; and between them a session that can move between the two mid-sentence.](https://www.westpeakwellness.com/img/language-in-therapy-tl.svg) (full size, opens in a new tab)](https://www.westpeakwellness.com/img/language-in-therapy-tl.svg) The middle column is the point. The choice is not made in advance. ## Who you would be working with [Camille Granda](https://www.westpeakwellness.com/practitioners/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](https://www.westpeakwellness.com/resources/verify-a-counsellor-in-bc) 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](https://www.westpeakwellness.com/pricing) 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](https://www.westpeakwellness.com/practitioners/camille-granda/richmond) specifically. ![Camille Granda, RCC, CCC, a Tagalog-speaking Registered Clinical Counsellor serving Richmond by video](https://www.westpeakwellness.com/_next/image?url=%2Fimg%2Fphoto%2Fcamille-granda.jpg&w=3840&q=75&dpl=dpl_5oWqSyeZ3Dmx9o1tJgbj87jckevt) Camille Granda, RCC, CCC ## Questions people in Richmond ask **Are there Tagalog-speaking counsellors in Richmond?** There are some, and far fewer than the size of the community would suggest. Most of Richmond's multilingual mental-health provision is oriented to Cantonese and Mandarin. That is a genuine local strength, and it is not the language everybody needs. **I work rotating shifts at YVR. Can therapy fit around that?** Yes. Booking in blocks around a roster with gaps between them is normal, and the calendar shows real open times. **What does a first session involve?** Fifteen minutes free first, by video, to work out whether it is a fit at all. If it is, the first full session is about your story and what you want to be different, not a form to fill in. [![A four-step diagram: a free fifteen-minute video consultation, an intake form sent before the session, the fifty-minute first session covering history and goals, and a decision at the end about whether and how often to continue.](https://www.westpeakwellness.com/img/first-session-flow.svg) (full size, opens in a new tab)](https://www.westpeakwellness.com/img/first-session-flow.svg) The path from first contact to the end of session one. For the wider picture of accessing counselling from Richmond: waitlists, the health authority, and what exists locally, [counselling in Richmond](https://www.westpeakwellness.com/online-counselling/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](https://www.westpeakwellness.com/tagalog-counselling/delta), [Tagalog counselling in Langford](https://www.westpeakwellness.com/tagalog-counselling/langford) and [Tagalog counselling in White Rock](https://www.westpeakwellness.com/tagalog-counselling/white-rock). The sessions are the same from Richmond as from each of them. **This is not a crisis service.** If you need urgent support in BC, call or text **9-8-8** at any hour, or **310-6789** for the BC Mental Health Support Line. In immediate danger, call 911. ## Tagalog counselling for Richmond A free 15-minute consultation by video, in Tagalog or English. No card, no obligation. [Book Free Consultation](https://www.westpeakwellness.com/book?with=camille-granda#calendar) Not ready to book? [Send a line about what is going on](https://www.westpeakwellness.com/contact). A reply comes within one business day, or read [the guides](https://www.westpeakwellness.com/guides) first and come back when you want to. Looking on behalf of someone else? [What to send them, and what not to](https://www.westpeakwellness.com/refer), including the funded routes most people do not know they qualify for.