All right, kiddos, this is your earmuffs warning.

This is not an over-the-top raunchy podcast, but if you've read my books, you know I'm not afraid

to use some colorful language.

We might also cover some adult topics if they come up in the questions so just be aware of that.

Finally I need to remind you that while I am a therapist I'm not your therapist so

please don't try to use this as a substitute for professional help.

Also, please don't try to sue me.

Thank you. All right, what is up, gentlemen, and Friends of All Varieties, this is the Hardcore Self-Help Podcast

episode 53.

I'm your host Dr. Robert Duff, a psychologist from Southern California and the author of the

Hardcore Self-Help book series.

Welcome.

Today I'm doing a deep dive episode and I'm going to

talk all about confidentiality in psychotherapy. So not just

confidentiality itself but also you know when a psychologist would need to warn about you know danger

when they can report abuse all sorts of things like that basically when you can

expect your psychologist to not keep confidentiality and I'll explain more about that but first I just want to thank you

for for being here if there's a little more ambient noise than usual or things are a little

bit looser this episode.

That's the way it's going to be. I'm in super dad mode tonight. I got the kid on my own.

So I have the baby monitor over here which may be giving a little bit of I don't think it's

even too much ambient noise but you know it could give a little bit of ambient noise and

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