Digital and Social Media Privacy Policy

Due to the nature of our therapeutic relationship and boundaries, we do not accept friend or contact requests from current or former clients on my personal online social networks (Facebook, Instagram). We believe that adding clients as friends or contacts on these sites can compromise your confidentiality and our respective privacy. It may also blur the boundaries of our therapeutic relationship. We keep an Instagram account and a Facebook page for our professional practice. You are welcome to view those accounts, but it is important to recognize the limits of confidentiality when following, commenting, or “liking” a post. Our primary concern is your privacy. It may also create the possibility that these exchanges become a part of your medical record and will need to be documented and archived in your chart. Note that we will not follow you back. We only follow other health professionals or resource accounts. If there are things from your online life that you wish to share with us, please bring them into our sessions where we can view and explore them together, during the therapy hour. Please do not use messaging on social network sites to contact us. These sites are not secure and we may not read these messages in a timely fashion. If you have questions about this, please bring them up when we meet and we can talk more about it.