All services are provided online or over the phone.

Individual Therapy

Here are some of the issues that you may be bringing into counselling, and some ways I can help.

Navigating major life changes: work, health, friendships, family, love, grief and loss…
Thinking through major decisions on the horizon
Helping you feel less alone with life’s challenges
Finding words to describe what you feel and why you feel that way
Navigating relationship issues, sudden or ongoing
Defining and accepting your desires, limitations, and boundaries
Support with making gradual and lasting changes in life
Support with trauma recovery: regaining a sense of safety, of balance, and of hope
Support with self-discovery: Who am I? What do I stand for? What is important to me?
Improving self-esteem and improving self-respect
Reconciling internal conflicts
Relief from loneliness and isolation
Support to get “unstuck” and to go after what you want
Support to find your voice and assert yourself
Support to ease up and embrace gentleness, patience

Relationship Therapy

Here are some of the issues that you may be bringing into counselling, and some ways I can help.

Deciding whether to work on the relationship or to part ways
Understanding “how did we get here?”
Having respectful and effective conversations
Accessing intimacy and gentleness
Exploring boundaries and limitations
Support to tell the truth and be forthcoming
Understanding shared values, opinions, and desires
Reconciling the tension arising from differences in values, opinions, and desires
Navigating the tension between self-interests and relationship-interests
Balancing togetherness and separateness
Defining desires, longings, limitations, and boundaries
Unpacking critical incidents, supporting helpful expressions of regret, acceptance, and forgiveness
Unpacking infidelity and facilitating recovery
Support with non-monogamous relationship structures (various forms of consensual non-monogamy, polyamory, open relationships, relationship anarchy)

Family Therapy

Here are some of the issues that you may be bringing into counselling, and some ways I can help.

Supporting parents to develop the skills they need to foster healthy relationships with one another and with their children
Supporting parents to define their values and effectively act upon these
Supporting parents to explore their own experiences of childhood: what do they want to carry forward? What cycles do they want to break?
Emotional support with the demanding role of parenting
Facilitating respectful and effective conversations with the people you care about
Exploring shared origins
Exploring the roles we take on in relationships
Accessing gentleness and care
Defining hopes, limitations, and boundaries
Understanding shared values, opinions, and desires
Understanding the tension arising from differences in values, opinions, and desires
Support to tell the truth and be forthcoming
Unpacking critical incidents, supporting helpful expressions of regret, acceptance, and forgiveness

Clinical Consultation

Clinicians receiving consultation hold full responsibility for their clinical practice and retain complete freedom in clinical decision-making. As a consultant, I would provide a platform for co-creative exploration, and as desired, I can provide guidance, ideas, and advice drawn from my own experience and knowledge. You would be free to implement your own decisions and processes as you see fit.

Visit this link to access the BCACC's definitions of clinical consultation and clinical supervision.

You could bring in anything you wish in terms of subject matter or focus (notes/charting, recordings, case conceptualization, countertransference, blind spots, and more) and I would support you to direct the focus of our sessions in ways that feel most helpful and satisfying for you.

Here are some of the themes I can help you explore.

Developing your unique sensibilities and ways of working
Positioning oneself effectively in the therapeutic relationship
Case conceptualization and treatment planning
Navigating clinical impasses, therapeutic ruptures, fatigue, and burnout
Identifying appropriate expectations of clients, therapists, and therapy
Exploring biases, blind spots, and developing anti-oppressive practices
Developing sensitivity and a non-expert stance
Developing ethical and viable business practices
Navigating systems (workplace systems, funding systems, government systems)

Consultation Groups (available by request)

Consultation groups are available upon request.

Collect a group of colleagues and contact Rachel to arrange a schedule.

Consultation group sessions run 1.5hrs in length.

Fees per 1.5hr session are $350+GST.

A weekly or biweekly frequency is recommended.

Example: a series of six sessions would total $2100, divided by the number of participants.

e.g., 4 participants: $525/person for six 1.5hr sessions

Clinical Supervision

I currently provide supervision to student interns at New Tides Counselling and Wellness who are working towards their Master's degree and BCACC licensing requirements.

While consultation and supervision share many elements, supervision entails a higher degree of oversight and accountability on the part of the supervisor, including evaluation of therapeutic skills, charting, consent processes, ethical conduct and decision-making, and considerations for scope-of-practice. There are typically reporting requirements (e.g., to schools or licensing bodies) as part of the arrangement.

Visit this link to access the BCACC's definitions of clinical consultation and clinical supervision.

Here are some common scenarios which would require a supervisory relationship:

Students who are working towards degree and licensing requirements
Clinicians working under consent agreements (BCACC)
Clinicians working towards certification in a particular clinical modality

Here are some of the themes I can help you explore.

Developing your unique sensibilities and ways of working
Positioning oneself effectively in the therapeutic relationship
Case conceptualization and treatment planning
Navigating clinical impasses, therapeutic ruptures, fatigue, and burnout
Identifying appropriate expectations of clients, therapists, and therapy
Exploring biases, blind spots, and developing anti-oppressive practices
Developing sensitivity and a non-expert stance
Developing ethical and viable business practices
Navigating systems (workplace systems, funding systems, government systems)

Supervision Groups (available by request)

Supervision groups are available upon request.

Contact Rachel to arrange a schedule and get a fee quote.

Supervision of Supervision

Clinicians working towards their ACS (Approved Clinical Supervisor) designation require 18 supervision of supervision hours. Rachel meets all requirements to provide supervision of supervision.

Visit this link to review the BCACC's ACS process and eligibility.