All services are provided online or over the phone.
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…
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Thinking through major decisions on the horizon
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Helping you feel less alone with life’s challenges
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Finding words to describe what you feel and why you feel that way
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Navigating relationship issues, sudden or ongoing
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Defining and accepting your desires, limitations, and boundaries
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Support with making gradual and lasting changes in life
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Support with trauma recovery: regaining a sense of safety, of balance, and of hope
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Support with self-discovery: Who am I? What do I stand for? What is important to me?
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Improving self-esteem and improving self-respect
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Reconciling internal conflicts
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Relief from loneliness and isolation
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Support to get “unstuck” and to go after what you want
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Support to find your voice and assert yourself
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Support to ease up and embrace gentleness, patience
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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
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Understanding “how did we get here?”
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Having respectful and effective conversations
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Accessing intimacy and gentleness
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Exploring boundaries and limitations
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Support to tell the truth and be forthcoming
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Understanding shared values, opinions, and desires
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Reconciling the tension arising from differences in values, opinions, and desires
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Navigating the tension between self-interests and relationship-interests
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Balancing togetherness and separateness
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Defining desires, longings, limitations, and boundaries
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Unpacking critical incidents, supporting helpful expressions of regret, acceptance, and forgiveness
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Unpacking infidelity and facilitating recovery
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Support with non-monogamous relationship structures (various forms of consensual non-monogamy, polyamory, open relationships, relationship anarchy)
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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
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Supporting parents to define their values and effectively act upon these
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Supporting parents to explore their own experiences of childhood: what do they want to carry forward? What cycles do they want to break?
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Emotional support with the demanding role of parenting
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Facilitating respectful and effective conversations with the people you care about
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Exploring shared origins
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Exploring the roles we take on in relationships
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Accessing gentleness and care
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Defining hopes, limitations, and boundaries
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Understanding shared values, opinions, and desires
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Understanding the tension arising from differences in values, opinions, and desires
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Support to tell the truth and be forthcoming
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Unpacking critical incidents, supporting helpful expressions of regret, acceptance, and forgiveness
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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.​
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Developing your unique sensibilities and ways of working
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Positioning oneself effectively in the therapeutic relationship
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Case conceptualization and treatment planning
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Navigating clinical impasses, therapeutic ruptures, fatigue, and burnout
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Identifying appropriate expectations of clients, therapists, and therapy
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Exploring biases, blind spots, and developing anti-oppressive practices
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Developing sensitivity and a non-expert stance
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Developing ethical and viable business practices
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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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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:
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Students who are working towards degree and licensing requirements​
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Clinicians working under consent agreements (BCACC)
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Clinicians working towards certification in a particular clinical modality
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Here are some of the themes I can help you explore.
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Developing your unique sensibilities and ways of working
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Positioning oneself effectively in the therapeutic relationship
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Case conceptualization and treatment planning
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Navigating clinical impasses, therapeutic ruptures, fatigue, and burnout
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Identifying appropriate expectations of clients, therapists, and therapy
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Exploring biases, blind spots, and developing anti-oppressive practices
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Developing sensitivity and a non-expert stance
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Developing ethical and viable business practices
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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.​​​
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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