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# Using Rivet for consultation and supervision

> Practitioner-to-practitioner video — supervision, peer consult, group practice meetings — running in the same workspace as client sessions.

Rivet video isn't only for client sessions. Your slug URL works for
anyone who shows up — including other practitioners. Supervision,
peer consultation groups, case discussion calls, and team meetings all
run in the same workspace, with the same tools.

## When this is useful

A few common patterns where a Rivet video session is the right call:

* **Supervision** — your supervisor opens your slug URL, taps Join, you
  start the session. They see your face, you see theirs. If you want to
  walk through a session note, share your screen and review it together.
* **Peer consultation** — a colleague taps your URL for a 1:1 case
  discussion. The same workspace, the same tools.
* **Training a new clinician on a tool** — share your screen and walk
  them through how you use a clinical template, the EMDR workspace, or
  the inbox.
* **A second clinician joining a session** — case conferences with
  another provider when the client consents. Note: Rivet's video is 1:1
  — only two browsers connect to a session at once. For a three-way
  case conference, you'd need a different tool.

## What's the same as a client session

Everything. The same pre-join screen, the same workspace, the same
toolbar, the same end-call teardown. The slug URL doesn't know whether
the person tapping it is your client or your supervisor — and that's
deliberately a feature.

A few practical notes:

* **You can share screen with another practitioner just like with a
  client.** Multitrack — they see your face in a corner tile while you
  show your screen.
* **The whiteboard works the same way.** Useful for sketching a
  formulation together with a colleague.
* **Sessions are not recorded for consultation either.** No recording
  exists. If you want a record of what was discussed in supervision,
  take notes.

## What to skip

The clinical surfaces in the toolbar (EMDR especially) exist for client
work. Don't run BLS at your supervisor — it's a clinical intervention,
not a feature demo. The same applies to the in-session clinical
templates: those are for client administration, not for case discussion.

If you want to **show** a colleague how the EMDR or template surfaces
look, share your screen with another browser tab where you're showing
those features to yourself. Don't run them live with a peer as the
"client" — you're polluting your own queue records.

## A separate URL for non-client use?

You don't get a second slug for consultation. The one URL covers
everything. This is intentional — managing two URLs would mean managing
two waiting rooms, and the one-URL design is the entire point of the
slug system.

In practice this hasn't caused problems:

* Your supervisor knows they're not a client and isn't surprised by the
  waiting-room page.
* The waiting-room queue shows everyone who's waiting by first name.
  Knowing "Sarah" is your supervisor and "Mike" is your 2pm client is
  trivial.
* If your queue is somehow ambiguous (two people named Mike?), the
  in-app waiting-room view shows the phone number they entered. That
  resolves it.

## Privacy for consultation use

The same privacy properties apply. The session is end-to-end encrypted.
The connection setup data is held only briefly while the call is being
established. Nothing is recorded. The session duration is logged for
audit purposes; the session content is not.

If you discuss client information during a consultation, **the standard
PHIPA / PIPEDA obligations apply to that discussion** the same way they
would on a phone call or in a hallway conversation. Rivet's tooling is
designed around those obligations but doesn't substitute for clinical
judgment about what's appropriate to discuss in a consultation.

See [PHIPA and Rivet](/privacy/phipa-and-rivet) for the full custodian
framing.

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