Counselling in Tagalog for Saanich

Ask where Greater Victoria’s Filipino community lives and the usual answer is Victoria. The 2021 Census says Saanich: 1,375 Saanich residents reported Tagalog as their mother tongue, against 1,145 in the City of Victoria (Statistics Canada, 2021 Census Profile). That is easy to miss, including for people in the community who search for help under the city’s name and find little in their own language.

A search for a Tagalog-speaking counsellor on the South Island turns up very little, so the ordinary result is therapy in English, a second language, at exactly the moment a first language matters most. A session in Tagalog by video needs no crossing and no drive downtown, and moving between Tagalog and English inside one session is normal.

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 Saanich specifically.

Questions people in Saanich ask

For the wider picture of accessing counselling from Saanich: waitlists, the health authority, and what exists locally, counselling in Saanich covers it. Greater Victoria’s largest municipality is filed under Victoria by most directories, and is not the same place.