How to keep emotionally safe

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Working with people in groups and one to one situations, professionals are obliged to inform their clients on confidentiality. This is a discipline that is focused upon very much in the early stages of training to be a counsellor or psychotherapist.

Quite often a conversation begins with “everything we discuss today remains confidential.” The conversation then goes on to clarify what confidentiality is and where is can be broken. This principal applies to various sister “people” professions. Some others I can add to above I would suggest would be General Practitioner (Doctor), Mentor, Coach, Key worker/Case worker, Group Facilitator, Religious Minister etc. The process of the helping transaction needs trust. That ideally is built up over time.

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