Therapist | Yourlifechange

Terms

Confidentiality

Confidentiality is an integral aspect of counselling and psychotherapy and is essential to building a solid therapeutic relationship and also to ensure a sense of safety. All information will remain confidential unless we both agree to discuss something with a third party. The following are the limits to this confidentiality and if needed, I would endeavour to consult you wherever possible prior to doing so.

Psychotherapists and counsellors regularly present their work in clinical supervision. The aim of this is to monitor and improve the clinical work undertaken. All supervision is done on a confidential basis and only using the client’s first name.
At times the therapist may need to contact the client’s GP or other professional involved. This would normally be done with the client’s permission and would be discussed in the session prior to any contact. However, if I believe there to be a risk to the safety of you or another person, I may contact the external services without prior consent and in such cases, only relevant details will be shared such as start date, duration and broad outcome of the work.
There are legal limits to confidentiality around disclosure of committing or intent to commit criminal offences, such as Prevention of Terrorism, Drug Trafficking Acts and Child Protection Acts.
In a court of law, a therapist may be required to answer questions about a client.

Insurance, Ethics and Professional Practice

As part of my practice I am fully insured for professional liability with a specialist provider.

Length of Therapy and Notice Period

The length of the therapy contract will depend on your needs and it will be negotiated and reviewed between us. I offer the first 4 sessions as an opportunity for us to review our work together. In regards to ending, I suggest an agreed notice period of not less than one session, with two sessions more appropriate. This allows us time to resolve any unfinished issues and finish in a safe manner for you.

Privacy policy

Contact forms

We have provided a contact form in the contact area of our website. We will then contact you to discuss things further.

Details (your name and email address) you provide us via the contact form will be retained by our website and within our email programs purely to enable us to contact you now and in the future. These details will never be shared with third parties but may be visible to our website hosting and email companies.

If you contact us on our site you opt-in to saving your name, email address in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again if you contact again. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. This is not a membership website and the login page is reserved for the site owners.

Embedded content from other websites

This site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

We use Google to supply our location map and they may monitor your visit.

Analytics

We currently use a subset of the analytics provided by our web hosting service www.wix.com

Who do we share your data

I am an individual counsellor and I will not share your information with anyone outside of the business, other than the IT company listed above, or in the event of an emergency, as specified in a counselling contract, and only after such a contract has been agreed.

How long we retain your data

We will retain your contact information for as long as you use our services. We will keep your details within our email and website systems after you’ve used our services unless you request this information is deleted. We will retain this information purely for use in contacting you, if required, in the future.

What rights you have over your data

At your request, we would immediately delete any data we hold for you.

How we protect your data

Our website and email systems are on password-protected secure hosting systems.

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