Information a student shares with their clinician in the course of a therapy session will be treated as confidential material whenever legally possible. Treating information confidentially means not releasing it to anyone outside the agency without the student’s permission.
The main — although not only — exceptions to confidentiality arise in situations involving child or adult abuse or neglect, court orders or subpoena of records, or immediate and serious danger to self or others.
Information regarding students is routinely shared internally among EKUCC clinical staff, primarily for case consultation and clinician supervision. The data you provide may be used in aggregate form, i.e. all information uniquely identifying any individual is removed, for the purposes of maintaining accurate statistics and conducting research.
If you are a student majoring in a professionally regulated area (e.g. Law, Medicine, Nursing, etc.) or if your work requires government security clearance (e.g. Department of Defense), please be advised that those regulatory boards may ask you to authorize disclosure of your EKUCC records.
Any communication you have with a clinician at the EKUCC outside of a therapy session may be recorded in your file at the EKUCC. Communication could be information shared face to face with your clinician, email messages, phone calls, etc. Please be aware that if you use email to communicate with your clinician, we cannot guarantee a prompt response or that your email message will be secure in transit.
We train graduate students from the mental health professions and you may have one as a clinician. Licensed EKUCC staff supervise graduate students, and they may ask your permission to record sessions for confidential supervisory purposes. You have the right to know your therapist’s supervisor’s name and how to contact that supervisor. Your clinician will provide this information at your first meeting.