Welcome to
River Counselling!

At River Counselling we are informed by our values:

Welcome

We seek to provide a genuine welcome! We are not clinical or impersonal: we are all just human beings!

Safety

We will make every effort to create a safe environment, recognising that safety is an experience which differs between individuals. 

Dignity

We respect the dignity in each human being.

Relationship

We believe that a positive relationship is key to all that we do.

Offering counselling, clinical supervision and bespoke workplace training, we make every effort to engage in a genuine, collaborative way with you throughout your time with us.

Our counselling approach

Rachel Friebel leads River Counselling. Rachel is a qualified counsellor and holds broad experience working with many individuals, couples and workplace teams.  

Rachel’s counselling approach stems from a belief that all individuals possess their own strengths and expertise. Rachel meets and works with people to identify how counselling can be helpful for them and what they desire from the process. She is guided by the expertise of people about their own unique experience and provides a warm, supportive counselling environment. She builds on the unique strengths of every person and works in a trauma-informed manner.

Rachel works in an integrative manner: she draws on a number of evidence based models to tailor an approach for each individual person or couple. The theories and approaches that Rachel draws from include: Attachment theory, Narrative practices, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), the Gottman method, systems theory and psychoneurological approaches.

Welcome to
River Counselling!

At River Counselling we are informed by our values:

Welcome

We seek to provide a genuine welcome! We are not clinical or impersonal: we are all just human beings!

Safety

We will make every effort to create a safe environment, recognising that safety is an experience which differs between individuals. 

Dignity

We respect the dignity in each human being.

Relationship

We believe that a positive relationship is key to all that we do.

Offering counselling, clinical supervision and bespoke workplace training, we make every effort to engage in a genuine, collaborative way with you throughout your time with us.

Our counselling approach

Rachel Friebel leads River Counselling. Rachel is a qualified counsellor and holds broad experience working with many individuals, couples and workplace teams.  

Rachel’s counselling approach stems from a belief that all individuals possess their own strengths and expertise. Rachel meets and works with people to identify how counselling can be helpful for them and what they desire from the process. She is guided by the expertise of people about their own unique experience and provides a warm, supportive counselling environment. She builds on the unique strengths of every person and works in a trauma-informed manner.

Rachel works in an integrative manner: she draws on a number of evidence based models to tailor an approach for each individual person or couple. The theories and approaches that Rachel draws from include: Attachment theory, Narrative practices, Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) and Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT), the Gottman method, systems theory and psychoneurological approaches.

Meet Rachel

Rachel has a background in community services, including management and leadership. She has enjoyed working as part of multidisciplinary teams and gaining exposure to a number of different areas within community services, affording her a wholistic view of client support and appreciation for the importance of different disciplines within human services. Rachel has been a practicing counsellor since 2015. She has worked as a counsellor and educator in Family and Relationship Services and Mental Health.

Rachel’s qualifications include a Bachelor of Applied Social Science (Counselling), Graduate Diploma of Counselling and Advanced Certificate of Clinical Supervision. Rachel holds Clinical Membership with the Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA). Rachel works under the Code of Ethics of PACFA and the South Australian Code of Conduct for Certain Healthcare Workers.