Privacy Policy

In order for me to be able to fulfil my responsibilities as a therapist I will need to record personal information about you. This information includes your name and contact details, and those of your GP.   

  

Your contact details will be used to contact you and to verify your identity if there is a request to access your personal data from yourself or your representative or legitimate legal instrument such as a court order.   

  

This personal information will be held securely and confidentially for a period of three years after the cessation of our counselling relationship, except where there is a mutually agreed decision to retain it for longer or where in my professional judgement it is appropriate to do so.

Your contact details alone will only be shared in exceptional circumstances with my supervisor or other named agent in the event that I am incapacitated so that they can contact you to explain the situation.   

  

Information about counselling sessions and our work together  

  

I will record notes of each therapy session under an anonymous identifying code. These notes will be a brief factual record of a session and are held securely and separately from the contact information above.   

  

These notes may only be shared under the anonymous identifying code with my supervisor, counselling professional body, for purposes of maintaining professional standards and aiding my professional development.  

  

These notes will be held for a period of five years after the cessation of counselling, except where I agree with you to retain them for longer, or where in my professional judgement it is appropriate to do so.   

 

Professional Indemnity and Public Liability Certificates available upon request.

 

DBS Certificate available upon request.