Thank you very much for explaining things to me

the part you wrote of Your other point though--personal lives and what not--is... difficult for me to digest. Maybe some of the T's in PC can better speak to this than I can"

I am a therapist and do understand whats in that link thanks.

heres I was trying to get at lets use you and your therapist, me and my therapist, lets make it that we go to the same agency -

you see your therapist at "#1 counseling agency"

I see my therapist at "#1 counseling agency"

my therapist is friends with your therapist.

what goes on in your therapy sessions is personal and private between you and your therapist. it doesnt matter what you and your therapist do behind those closed doors its a therapy session and therapy sessions are covered by confidentiality rules.

you and your therapist can plan a bank heist and if its done in therapy sessions no matter what my therapist cant tell me what is going on in your therapy sessions. you and your therapist can fall in love and have sex in that therapy room and still my therapist cannot tell me about it because what goes on between you and your therapist is private and personal to you and your therapist and is covered by confidentiality laws.

even if you and your therapist meet after hours for your affair together, even though what goes on outside of the therapy sessions is your own personal life and no matter what the therapist does after ours is his personal life, you and he are client and therapist so its covered by confidentiality laws and ethics laws.

even if my therapist and yours are friends what goes on for you and your therapist inside and outside the therapy room is covered by confidentiality laws.

even if your therapist tells my therapist you and he had sex my therapist still cant tell me about it because he is your therapist so confidentiality laws apply to anything and everything including any contact between you and your therapist is covered by confidentiality laws.

my therapist and your therapist possibly being friends doesnt change that. what ever goes on between you and your therapist regardless of if you and he have an abusive situation happen to you caused by your therapist its still covered by confidentiality laws so my therapist cannot tell me anything about what happened between you and your therapist.

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Hi Amanda Louise!

Your examples and information are great! Thank you for sharing them with me!

Reading over your post, I realized I should clarify something.

I am not surprised that I wasn't told, that this didn't come up in session. I would kinda be shocked if I was told. I don't think it would be my place as the client of one therapist to hear of the doings of another therapist and his client. And I agree with all of that in your post.

Here's the thing. I actually came across the information/public documents because I was emailing something to my T and the website I was on listed the other two providers in the practice. I wondered what their specialty was, as my guy is a clinical psychologist, and I knew a little bit about one of the other people and her credentials, but I wondered if Mr. X was also a clinical psychologist. So I clicked his name for a google search to see his licensure record--expecting to find sites showing him to also be a clinical psychologist. I did not expect to find anything incriminating or really anything at all. A lot of people I know in healthcare are very very careful about putting things up online (or rather, NOT putting things up online), so I thought the only thing I would find would be relating to his credential, which is public knowledge.

But I know now. What do I do with this knowledge? What has been seen can't be unseen.... especially since I'm sober these days, so I don't have those addictions to aid in forgetting...

I'm in a vulnerable place these past few months. I miss my mom terribly, and I wish I had her to ask for advice, for reassurance, to tell me the right thing to do for me. She might say, she'd want me safe and secure, and nowhere near an environment where something like this happened. She could say that Mr. X and his actions are not the same as T and his actions/character and I should trust my long-time, beneficial relationship with T.

So overall, no, it's not information that I, T's patient, should know, but I do know. And I feel sad because I'm feeling like I can't continue our partnership in mental health...