Are my sessions confidential

Therapy often involves sharing sensitive, personal and private information. Ethical guidelines require that all interactions, including content of our sessions, your records, scheduling of attendance at appointments, and personal progress notes are kept confidential. Counselors are bound by code of ethics to hold confidential anything that happens during sessions and no one can have access to any information without your signed consent. Exceptions to confidentiality include:

-A client poses a clear and imminent danger to themselves or to someone else
-A client requests release of information
-A court orders a release of information
-Clients raise the issue of their mental health in a law suit
-Emotional, physical or sexual abuse and neglect (actual or suspected) of a child