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Originally Posted by ChickenNoodleSoup
Well, I can only speak for my country, but here, vaccination status is - like a lot of other information - private health information that is protected by privacy laws. You CAN always ask. People are, however, not obligated to respond. What you do with that answer if it's a therapist or doctor is up to you, but it is not mandatory for them to disclose such things.
I'll add a small note as to why I think it's kind of important: if you ask and then answer is no, and then you go "why not?" and they say they have an autoimmundisorder and can't take it, now it's suddenly not just a decision anymore, now you know a lot more about their health. And unlike only a free decision, not all Ts would want to share such a diagnosis with their clients.
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Two things:
1) You’re inverting the power differential of the relationship here. Therapists are not likely to go down a rabbit hole of awkward personal follow-up questions asked by their clients. They can leave it at “I’m not vaccinated for personal reasons” and the client can do what they want with that information.
2) There are precious few true medical contraindications to covid vaccination (esp given that in most places more than one vaccine type is available) and almost every autoimmune d/o is just more reason to be vaccinated. Currently people on certain biologicals, taken for autoimmune conditions, are on the very short list of folks for whom a third vaccine dose is recommended (in my area).