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Opinion
Let’s talk about the ethics of your therapist having access to you on social media
3 years ago
2 min read
Writer, activist and Reclaim These Streets co-founder Jamie Klingler shares her experience of searching for a therapist and encountering the strange dynamic of already being followed by some on social media.
Last month when I was searching for a new therapist to work with long term, I sought out some advice as I really didn’t know where to begin.
A very trusted friend (and my barrister), Pippa Woodrow, told me to make sure to find a therapist that is smarter than me. Another friend, who has qualified to be a therapist, pointed me to the ’find a therapist’ function on the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) website. Given my public-facing work campaigning for women’s safety and discussing male violence against women, I wanted to work with a therapist that understood the speciality around vicarious trauma. But in doing so, three of the therapists I contacted were aware of my work in the sector and already followed me on Twitter. It made sense but it totally freaked me out; they would already have an opinion of me before we’d even meet for a formal session.
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