Confidentiality

Everything you tell me is held in the strictest confidence.

The only exceptions to this are my professional and legal obligations detailed below.

Professional Obligation

In adherence to the BACP’s guidelines, as a professional Psychotherapist I am required at regular intervals to talk with another therapist / counsellor - a Supervisor - about my work. This ensures I am acting ethically, safely and in your best interests. Any client work I discuss with my Supervisor is anonymised, and they also keep this confidential.

I ask that you also respect the confidentiality of our sessions, keeping the work discreet and professional by not posting or sharing any written correspondence between us on social media networks or forums. I will of course do the same.

Legal Obligation

I have a duty of care and am legally bound to break confidentiality if I have an urgent concern about a safety risk to you, to others, or if there is an identified on-going risk to children or vulnerable adults. If I or my Supervisor felt I had to break confidentiality, I would always try, where possible, to discuss this with you first, before disclosing my concern to an appropriate professional or named emergency contact.

If at any time you feel in crisis or in danger of harming yourself, then you can contact your GP, The Samaritans (116 123), NHS 111, the emergency services (999), or go to your nearest A&E department for help.