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 All services are provided online or over the phone.

Relationship
Therapy

Family
Therapy

Clinical
Consultation

Supervision of
Supervision

Individual Therapy

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

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  • 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

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Relationship Therapy

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

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  • 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)

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Family Therapy

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

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  • 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 

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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.

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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.

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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) 

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​Consultation Groups (available by request)

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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

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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) 

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​​​​​Supervision Groups (available by request)

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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.

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

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© Rachel Friederichsen 2025

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