Data protection statement for clients

I will collect, store and process information about you to enable me to run my psychotherapy practice and to provide an ethical service to you, including receiving supervision and professional training.  This information could include your name and contact details, as well as information about your age, health (mental and physical) and GP, sexuality, domestic and financial arrangements and other special category data.  I am able to collect this information upon the legal basis of "Legitimate Interests" for the purposes of healthcare, as per the Data Protection Act 2018.  My practice is based in the UK and this service is provided in accordance with English law.

All information about you will be stored under lock and key, or password protection and appropriate encryption.  As per professional best practice, I will keep brief handwritten notes on our sessions.  These will be anonymous and stored separately from your contact details.  I will keep this information for up to 7 years after we have completed our work together, at which point it will be deleted or shredded.

If am unexpectedly incapacitated and unable to practise, a qualified colleague will have access to your contact details so they can contact you to explain the situation and support you to find further therapeutic support as necessary.

You have the right to have information about you deleted, to have inaccuracies corrected, to access information about you free of charge within 1 month, to not receive any unsolicited marketing, to determine how information about you is processed and to complain if you are unhappy about any of the above by contacting the Information Commissioners Office at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ although I suggest that you discuss this with me in the first instance.