I agree with everyone who has responded before this. No need to feel guilty. In fact, I think it is very common for a person to google their psychiatrist and therapist. I have, especially my psychiatrist. These are people that we pour out our hearts and deepest feelings to. It's natural to want to know a little bit more about them. And certainly if your therapist shared stuff specifically about her Facebook, it's totally understandable that many of her patients would look. As others wrote, if she didn't want stuff to be revealed, she shouldn't have posted it publicly. Period!
I agree with others that our privacy has been violated to various degrees even without posting information, deliberately. I wish that could be curbed a bit in the future. That's a very good reason for not sharing full names with casual acquaintances.
I once shared my blog address with a past therapist. She signed up to receive notifications from it. It had been a good year or so since I changed therapists when she emailed me, sounding desperately concerned, about something I wrote on my blog. She was always a sweet caring woman, but it became obvious that she was too emotionally involved with me. The sad part is that I have stopped posting certain things on my blog. I stopped posting stuff on Facebook a long while ago. It's just too much info there! I especially decided to stop posting on Facebook when angry conflicting political views were expressed.
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