Rachel Moxham (she/her)
associate counsellor
Ma, RCC - REGISTERED CLINICAL COUNSELLOR
Location: Vancouver, BC & Online
Availability:
Tuesdays: 9am-4pm PST
Wednesdays: 11am-7pm PST
Thursdays: 11am-7pm PST
Session type: In-person & virtual
Current availability for booking: accepting clients for weekday daytime sessions before 4pm
Areas of support
BDSM & Kink
Ethical Non-Monogamy & Polyamory
Queer Issues, including Coming Out
Religion & Sexuality
Desire Discrepancy
Sexual Trauma
Grief & Loss
Approaches in Therapy
Relational
Feminist
Anti-Oppressive
Psychodynamic
Trauma-Informed
Narrative
Attachment-Based
Session Fees
Fees are exclusive of tax & will be charged based on your province of residence.
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Session fees may be paid by Credit Card or E-transfer.
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No individual exists in a vacuum. We are all constituted by our particular histories, cultures, narratives, and relationships with other people. But it can be easy to forget, or perhaps never notice, how much these constitutive elements inform even the most intimate and personal aspects of our lives—sex, love, and desire. When we struggle in these areas, without knowing, we might instead blame ourselves, and wonder why we cannot simply be better. This habit only compounds the effects of painful and conflicting experiences.
It is my responsibility to build a trustworthy therapeutic relationship with you, so that together we can make explicit how these elements, for better or for worse, have informed your life, how they have created your strengths, challenges, and barriers. My approach does not seek to pathologize or categorize you, but to acknowledge and validate the idiosyncratic ways that you experience pleasure, desire, love, safety, and freedom. Afterall, eroticism is not only about sex, but about how we feel fully alive as desiring beings. Including playfulness, creativity, joy, awe, and connection, eroticism can be the antidote to trauma.
My work is trauma-informed, non-judgemental, and pleasure-positive. I enjoy working with folks of all genders, sexualities, desires, and relationship structures. I integrate relational, feminist, and attachment-based approaches, while I draw on my interdisciplinary background to better understand you in the context of your life. My approach is conversational, and at times gently challenging so that you can move beyond the struggle that brought you here.
As for me—I am a white, cis, woman initially from a rural, mostly conservative town. I have nearly 10 years of experience as a frontline mental health worker here in Vancouver. Both my life and work experience have given me a nuanced awareness of the violence and harm done by economic disparity and class-based divisions. I humbly and respectfully reside on the ancestral and unceded territories of the Coast Salish People, the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Səl̓ílwətaʔ (Tsleil-Watuth), and Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish) First Nations.
Professional Licensure & Degrees
- Registered Clinical Counsellor, BC Association of Clinical Counsellors
- Master of Arts in Counselling Psychology, Simon Fraser University
- Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and Philosophy, Simon Fraser University
Professional Trainings & Experience
- Trainings: Sex Beyond Binaries: Re-envisioning Sex Therapy for Every Body, Lucie Fielding, Author of Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiment;
- Kinky Mind and Body, The Psychobiology of Kink with TASHRA
- Families, Family Breakdown, and the Law, BCACC
- San'yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training, BC Provincial Health Services Authority
- Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST), The Crisis Intervention and Suicide Prevention Centre of BC
- Non-Violent Communication Level 1, Center for Non-Violent Communication