So I'm a college student, and due to complex family reasons, I am currently unable to get involved with a private therapist. I have been going to campus health due to self harm and a particularly distressing situation with my younger sister [she has her own mental health issues -- ** and is a minor **].

When I first went to see a therapist at campus health, I was totally ready to talk about everything going on. I was aware of confidentiality and any reasons she might have for breaking that. I suppose I underestimated the seriousness of some of my family issues -- and there was talk of reporting my family to Child Protective Services. Her argument was that though I had not seen any signs of my siblings in an unsafe situation for years, I had no proof that they weren't still and I had admitted that they were once in an unsafe situation. This idea was nixed.

Buuut -- I was panicked and distressed and I told her lots about my family situation. I spent some time away from campus health and got significantly worse (perhaps from revealing too much right away -- stuff I might add that I hadn't talked to anyone -- literally any person -- for years?). I returned to campus health and was set up with a therapist who did safety check-ups with me and with another therapist to work with setting me up with a community provider -- because they provide short term therapy only due to how many clients they get.

I admit that coming in to campus health after my experience mentioning anything family related made me a bit wary. My check-in therapist was a student getting a Psy.D in the fall and I grew to trust her and feel a little more comfortable. We talked mostly about self care and my particular safety concerns ... actually I strategically didn't talk about my family at all.

I have since then stopped seeing her since I am doing a little better in some aspects -- and also because my moving to a community provider just isn't going to happen anytime soon and I'm a waste of time, lol.

I do wonder -- do all the therapists have records to all my sessions within campus health? I ask mostly out of curiosity -- did she know that I was lying to her the one time she asked about family? Also, they have group therapy programs via campus health and those are free and not of a short duration -- I was considering inquiring about those. One of them that I thought might be helpful to me is for ACOAs -- and it would certainly be easier ask about it if someone already knew.

Sorry for the length. u_u;