Rae Morris

About me: As part of a cohesive and collaborative group practice, I offer private counseling/therapy services for individuals and families to explore and support neurodiversity-affirming mental health, well-being, confidence, parenting and relationships. Many of the clients who choose to work with me are neurodivergent adults (suspected or confirmed autistic, ADHD, OCD, and/or are considered gifted or highly intelligent). Many are also parents, educators and other professionals seeking to deepen self-insight and strengthen neuro-affirming relationships with those they care for.

My approach is integrative and is mainly grounded in neurodiversity-affirming values and approaches. In our work together, we will work from a strengths-focused, client-centered, and trauma-informed approach to identify and strive to reach your uniquely personal therapeutic goals. As a clinician-researcher, my clinical practice is informed by (and informs) the current research landscape to date, including projects I have had the privilege to collaborate on and/or lead.

Outside of my clinical practice, I am a Post-Doctoral Researcher with the UBC Okanagan Canadian Institute for Inclusion and Citizenship. I contribute to and conduct research in the areas of intellectual and developmental disability, neurodiversity, autism, mental health service provision, employment, and co-parenting and family relationships. At times, I also teach advanced clinical practice courses on individual, couple, and family therapy to students in the UBC Master of Social Work program. 

Practice Focus: Neurodiversity and neurodivergence; anxiety; panic; depression; self-esteem, identity, and confidence; navigating giftedness; facing fears; mental health promotion; processing neurodivergent identities and diagnoses; parent and professional well-being, compassion satisfaction and burnout, neurodiversity-affirming parenting and professional support; clinical mentorship. Formal neurodivergent diagnoses are not necessary to receive services.

Services Offered: 
Individual Counselling for youth and adults (and some gifted children) 
Relationship Counselling for neurodiverse couples/life partners (including polyamorous relationships)
Parent Counselling especially for parents of neurodiverse families (multiple neurotypes in one family)

Consultation and Mentorship for counsellors, mental health providers, school counsellors and inclusive education specialists, and clinical social workers seeking to enhance clinical practices, strengthen professional identity, reinforce compassion satisfaction (and mitigate compassion fatigue and burnout) and/or integrate or deepen neuro-affirming care

Education including workshops on neuro-affirming care and practices, intersection of neurodivergence and mental health, neuro-affirming parenting, compassion satisfaction and burnout among caring professionals, professional identity among counsellors/social workers, clincial social work practice, DSM-5TR assessment and diagnosis.