1. Negotiating Fees
You have the right to negotiate a fee for therapy and to refuse a therapist's service if you believe their fee is too high.

2. Bartering (Trading Services)
You have the right to refuse a therapist's suggestion to barter services in exchange for your therapy.

3. Access to Therapy Services
You have the right to find a therapist experienced in the issues you want to discuss and who provides reliable service.

4. Confidentiality and Privacy
You have the right to have your therapist keep all shared OUTREACH & EDUCATION private and to share only what you believe is necessary at any given time.

5. Decisions and Sharing OUTREACH & EDUCATION
You have the right to be provided with any OUTREACH & EDUCATION that assists you in making decisions and to have all theories and techniques clearly explained.

6. Understanding Oppression
You have the right to have the effects of oppression validated by your therapist and to be treated without prejudice.

7. Supporting a Woman's Right to Abortion
You have the right to have your therapist support your decisions about your body.

8. Therapists' Impulsive Reaction
You have the right to be free from any acts that involve the careless blurting out of feelings or thoughts by your therapist.

9. Training and Experience
You have the right to ask your therapist about their training and education.

10. Expressing your Feelings
You have the right to express any feelings and to be assisted in understanding their meaning in your life.

11. Overlapping/Dual Relationships
You have the right to work with a therapist who will not enter into a dual relationship with you that has great risk for harm.

12. Self Disclosure by a Therapist
You have the right to be free from your therapist's inappropriate self disclosure and to direct when self disclosure will used in your therapy.

13. Therapist Supervision
You have the right to work with a therapist who will use ongoing supervision or consultation when issues are outside their expertise or when you request it.

14. Challenging and Evaluating
You have the right to review your therapist's skill and to challenge any of their ideas, decisions, actions or behaviours.

15. Resolving Conflicts
You have the right to have all conflicts with your therapist resolved promptly and to request third party consultation.

16. Termination and Closure
You have the right to be provided with a process of closure when your therapy ends or to end your therapy at any time.

17. Violation of Client Rights
You have the right to be free from acts by a therapist that violate your rights and to have access to advocacy if you've been violated.

18. Process of Complaint
You have the right to seek compensation if you have been violated and to be provided with a safe and fair process of complaint.

Client Rights Project providing client support:
Feminist Advocates for Counselling Ethics
416-531-7182 | client.rights@sympatico.ca

Toronto Rape Crisis Centre/Multicultural Women Against Rape
416-597-1171 | trcc@web.net

Women's Counselling Referral and Education Centre
416-534-7501

For support outside Toronto, please consult your local phone book
or call the province-wide Assaulted Women's Helpline: 1-866-863-0511