A new counselling service is available in Hamilton for the ethnic community, who may find themselves isolated and unable to communicate properly.
Diversity Counselling supervisor Kou Kunishige says if people cannot speak English they struggle to express what they are experiencing in a new country.
"They hesitate [to come to
counselling] because they know they cannot express what they are going through."
Diversity Counselling provides a counselling service in the native language of people who've emigrated to New Zealand.
It is a charitable trust and is currently not funded. Kunishige says they are in the final stages of establishing the donation process, and they will need funding to make fees cheaper for people who cannot afford them.
