Erica Harris

Yes, research generally shows that video-based therapy is just as effective as in-person care for conditions like anxiety, depression, and everyday stress.

Effectiveness largely depends on how strong the connection is with your therapist. We encourage you to take advantage of our FREE 15-minute consultation to see if it's a good fit. 

Virtual therapy is not intended for people with severe instability or distress. 

Yes, licensed practitioners use encrypted, PIPEDA-, PHIPA-, or HIPAA-compliant video platforms to protect your data, video streams, and session notes. 

Therapists follow the same strict legal and ethical confidentiality rules online as they do in an office. Standard legal exceptions (such as immediate risk of harm to yourself or others) still apply. 

You can maximize your privacy at home by using headphones and avoiding public Wi-Fi.

The main differences are their training, diagnostic ability, cost, and funding. 

• Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC): Regulated by the BC Association of Clinical Counsellors (BCACC), they hold a Master’s degree and focus on talk therapy. They cannot diagnose or prescribe. 
• Registered Psychologist: Holds a Doctoral degree (Ph.D. or Psy.D.), is regulated by the College of Psychologists of BC, can formally diagnose mental health conditions, and performs psychological testing. 
• Psychiatrist: Medical doctors specializing in mental health who primarily handle diagnoses and prescribe medications. 

MSP fully covers psychiatrists, but generally not private counsellors (RCCs) or psychologists. However, if you work with Erica Harris, a Registered Clinical Counsellor (RCC), her services are widely covered by private extended health insurance plans. 

While the provincial government does not fund private counselling through MSP, most workplace benefits and extended health policies (such as Pacific Blue Cross, Sun Life, Canada Life, and Manulife) cover an RCC. Because every insurance plan is unique, we recommend checking with your provider before booking to confirm your annual limits and ensure your policy explicitly accepts the RCC designation.

You are caught in a repetitive dance where the very strategies you use to fix the problem might be making it worse. At Rising Minds, we use an active, direct approach to identify your precise cycle, trace it back to its origins, and teach you how to break the pattern in real time.

Erica Harris draws on a variety of evidence-based approaches to support your relationship: 

• The Gottman Method: Provides practical tools and infrastructure for everyday communication.
• Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT): Helps identify and heal attachment distress and emotional distance.
• Compassionate Inquiry (Gabor Maté): Uncovers how individual childhood wounds show up in your current relationship.
• Relational Life Therapy (Terry Real): Offers an active, direct framework to break toxic or repetitive cycles.
• Esther Perel's approach: Navigates the balance between long-term domestic intimacy and desire.

Erica also offers: 

• A Flexible Fee Structure: To map your patterns effectively, Rising Minds offers both 50-minute sessions ($200) for targeted maintenance and 80-minute sessions ($265). We also offer sliding fee scales and low-cost counselling options to ensure accessible care for all. 
• Secure, Frictionless Connection: All of our virtual couples sessions are conducted through NousTalk, a fully secure, encrypted, video platform built specifically for clinical therapy. You can easily connect from the privacy of your own home—or even from two completely separate locations if your schedules make it impossible to sit on the same couch