Ethical Quandaries
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 39 minutes
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00:00 Did this therapist break client confidentiality and trust?
10:22 Is it ethical to acknowledge a client's death?
21:31 Should I report a would-be pilot's mental health?
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August 4, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, deserving listeners. I have a backlog of emails from y'all regarding ethics, and I thought I would |
| 0:07.2 | read and answer them. Now, we have an email from patron Arias from Florida. They say, |
| 0:13.8 | I want to thank you for giving me the courage to walk out during a therapy session. Today I walked out |
| 0:20.7 | during a session after my therapist |
| 0:23.1 | disclosed another client's first name, age, and information about their gender transition. |
| 0:29.6 | We were talking about using gender neutral names for aunt and uncle, and she said she would ask another client's first name about what |
| 0:41.0 | term they use. All right. So just chiming in so everyone understands. So patron Arias, they were in |
| 0:48.0 | session and the therapist and the client were talking about using gender neutral names for aunt and uncle. |
| 0:56.0 | And the therapist said that she would ask like, you know, Jane or something. |
| 1:01.4 | There's another client. |
| 1:03.1 | And she's like, oh, I'm going to ask Jane or John or whatever about what term they use. |
| 1:09.8 | And going on with the email. |
| 1:12.2 | So that's potentially a break in confidentiality, right? |
| 1:16.1 | Because you're revealing that you're working with this other client going on. |
| 1:20.1 | She said that this other person is a client who she has seen for several years. |
| 1:26.5 | And then she gave me a brief overview of their |
| 1:29.5 | gender transition and the client's age. When I told her that this made me feel weird, she apologized |
| 1:36.6 | for making me uncomfortable. And she said, the other client is okay with her talking about them. |
| 1:46.9 | And I said that I thought it was a breach of confidentiality and I wouldn't want her talking to other clients about our sessions |
| 1:52.1 | and that I wanted to leave this session. She apologized again for upsetting me, but I think she was |
| 1:57.8 | missing the point. I plan on firing her, but I am not sure if I should also file a report with the government about a potential HIPAA violation. |
| 2:09.9 | Any thoughts or guidance would be really helpful here. |
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