Volunteer Counsellor Training

Greater Victoria Citizens’ Counselling Centre formed as a society in 1969. Like many grassroots community organizations, we started at a kitchen table with a group of passionate caring people talking about what if…

The vision they shared was a community that had the capacity to provide quality emotional support to each other when life’s challenges presented themselves.
The vision was, and still is, a resilient, supportive and inclusive community. 

Our Mission

The Greater Victoria Citizens’ Counselling Centre assists adult community members in attaining socially and psychologically satisfying lives by providing quality, accessible, volunteer counselling services.

Our Vision

• We will offer accessible and affordable counselling services.
• We will strive to provide quality counselling services using trained and supervised volunteer counsellors.
• We will work together with our clients to provide them with the tools to assist them in making satisfying choices and decisions for themselves.
• We will participate with community partners in the development and provision of services to meet the evolving needs of our community.
• We will promote our core values and we will ensure that these values guide our decision-making.
• We are on a journey to becoming more inclusive and anti-racist and doing our part to promote healing on the territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən speaking peoples of the Songhees and Esquimalt Nations and the SENĆOŦEN speaking peoples of the W̱SÁNEĆ Nations.