EMDR FORUM ARCHIVE, 2000
Re:body sensations and emdr
· 09/30/03 at 11:46 PM ET
I was not aware that a therapist had contacted a client about their posts Therapists need not be contacting their clients about what they post about anything. If a client discusses their therapy openly, there is nothing wrong with that; therapists are bound by confidentiality regulations, clients of therapists are not bound by those codes of ethics or regulations that licensed therapists are bound by. If a client wants to talk about their therapy with any one they choose, it’s the clients business and not the therapists concern. If a therapist is so concerned about what clients discuss outside of the therapy room then there may be need to be concerned as to the therapists competency or methods. I'm not so sure that a patient's right to confidentiality is intact if that patient reveals identifying information about him or herself online and/or identifies a therapist and says negative things about that therapist. The patient may have waived their right to confidentiality (again, I'm not sure) in that instance. Ahem, and so once therapists start blabbing and bad mouthing clients, for you to suggest that a therapist has a right to do so when a client talks about therapy to me sounds like therapists revenge against client. When therapists start badmouthing their clients whom they have hurt for revenge of client speaking openly about how they have been hurt by said therapist, consumers of mental health services will have a further distrust of psychotherapists and psychotherapy and counseling will start to degenerate into a high degree of mis trust.
At any rate, therapists are supposed to be held to a higher ethical standard than their clients. When they stoop to a supposed level of gossip that the client is accused of, then how can anyone trust a therapist?
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