Safety & Privacy

Confidentiality

Your confidentiality is of utmost importance. Your personal information, including what we discuss in sessions, will be kept confidential, even after our therapy relationship ends. However, there are exceptions to confidentiality: (1) mandatory reporting of imminent harm to yourself or others, including vulnerable persons like minors and (2) legal orders. In addition, non-identifying information may be shared with my clinical supervisor, Marlise Meilan MA, RCC, CCC, RP, and in peer consultations. My supervisor and peers are bound to the same confidentiality boundaries as I am.

Data Privacy

Your personal health information is protected under PHIPA and PIPEDA. I manage my practice primarily through Jane, a PHIPA- and PIPEDA-compliant software system. This is the video-platform we will use to meet for our sessions and this is where I store my (brief) notes from our sessions and your personal information. I am the only person who has access to the Jane account. I also use Google email services to run my practice. While Google is considered a relatively safe platform, I generally avoid sending sensitive/confidential health information over email.

Client Concerns

Should you have concerns about something that happens in our work together, you are invited to bring this to our sessions. I am committed to working through any ruptures and harm I may have unintentionally caused and I appreciate your willingness and vulnerability in bringing these up in session.

If it feels more appropriate, such as for your safety or when issues remain unresolved, you can contact the College of Registered Psychotherapists of Ontario to submit a complaint or file a report.