About Psychotherapy

Confidentiality

The confidential relationship between a person engaged in psychotherapy and their psychotherapist is of fundamental importance.

This kind of therapy depends on the formation of a trusting relationship in which facts, emotions, memories and fears can be safely disclosed.

We believe confidentiality is absolutely central to our work and what is said in therapy remains confidential to the limits provided by law (essentially, where there is serious danger to anyone’s life) and even then would be considered very carefully before any disclosure was made.

This is the case even when a patient gives consent for the release of confidential material.

As part of maintaining a secure boundary to the work, a minimum number of people should have knowledge of a patient’s identity. An exception to this is when the practitioner considers it clinically necessary that a third party such as a psychiatrist should be involved, with the agreement of the patient.

In practice, it may be useful for your GP and/or someone very close to you to be aware that you are in psychotherapy and this is something which will be discussed with you if it appears appropriate to your psychotherapist, or which you can raise yourself.

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