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Confidentiality and Ethics

I will collect information about why you are seeking therapy services, your history and background, alongside brief session notes, ensuring I am equipped with the knowledge of our previous discussions prior to each session. I collect this data to provide you with the best care in our time together. Your contact details, address and other details will only be used with your explicit consent. Please see the consent form you are provided with for more information. 

 

Everything we discuss during therapy sessions is strictly confidential between us. To ensure I am doing my job as effectively as I can, and that I have the right support, I may discuss elements of your sessions with my supervisor. During these discussions I do not disclose any details that may identify you to the supervisor, and the supervisor also adheres to the GDPR framework.

Ethics I adhere to as a member of the NCPS: https://nationalcounsellingsociety.org/about-us/code-of-ethics

GDPR

What is the General Data Protection Regulations, 2018 (GDPR) and how does it affect me?

 

The GDPR is in place to ensure your personal, sensitive, and confidential data is kept private and held securely, being processed in the way that you have agreed to. It is there to protect your rights as a consumer of a service that might involve your identifiable data, e.g. your name and address or whether you have a specific condition. It also covers any session records, text messages, or emails we exchange.

 

I am regulatory bound to hold your data for 10 years after your final session. All records will be deleted in the January after the above retention scales. This is in line with wider NHS regulations for holding data.

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