Your therapy and personal information are kept securely. Information (without disclosing your identity) will be shared with my clinical supervisor who is also accredited with a professional body. Confidentiality may be breached if I consider there is a risk you may harm yourself or others. In such exceptional circumstances, where there is concern for your well being or that of others, it may be necessary to seek help outside the therapeutic relationship. In such an event where I am considering breaching confidentiality, you will normally be consulted first. If this occurs, I aim to discuss these with you and any recommendations will be documented. Also, there are a limited number of circumstances where the law requires confidentiality to be broken, in cases involving terrorist activities, vulnerable adult or child protection issues, drug trafficking or money laundering for example. I’ll decline any request from Social Care, solicitors, or the NHS to write reports or express an opinion on the progress made in the therapy because of my duty of confidentiality to my clients, and because I am not trained in the specialist areas of diagnosis or social work assessment. In addition to this, any notes I take about sessions are extremely brief and very short term, not a verbatim account of who said what and they are used only to support continuity from session to session. However, I can in some circumstances, and on receipt of written consent from you, provide the dates and number of sessions attended. Sometimes court cases or complaints can also mean that confidentiality can be compromised. If I am asked by you, your solicitor, the police, and the courts for access to your records I’ll reserve the right to resist legal requests to produce the records in court as these are not suitable as evidence in legal proceedings and on the ground of confidentiality. The information about confidentiality in no way contravenes your rights under the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018) and the UK GDPR, collectively known as Data Privacy Legislation, to access personal data that I hold on you.