Normally, everything you discuss with your clinician will be held confidential. Unless you provide a signed authorization, we will not speak to, or correspond with, anyone about you unless required by law or when consultation with, or supervision by, another mental health professional is deemed necessary in order to provide you with the highest standard of care.
Laws and ethical codes, including standards of practice, either mandate, or permit, clinicians to breach client confidentiality under certain circumstances. In the case of consultation with another mental health professional, your identifying details will remain confidential.
If you choose to breach your own right to confidentiality in any way (e.g., applying for insurance reimbursement, telling anyone about your therapy, using a cell phone, sending us an email), we cannot control, or be held liable, for the outcome. For more information on the limits of confidentiality, please discuss this topic with your clinician.