Professional Boundary Statement

Outlined here is my professional boundaries statement, which helps you and I to navigate existing within similar communities. This is here not as a barrier, but more to help us maintain a professional, confidential and ethical relationship.

Where we have multiple relationships that may exist in person and online, which can happen when living in the Queer+ community, it is important we discuss these. This helps us both to understand how better to work together and allow you to decide if you would like to work with me. I will do my best to bring any mutual connections or spaces we might inhabit, so that we can both work to understand how best to work together. I ask you do the same, so that we meet somewhere in the middle. Should we not be able to reach a way to work together which benefits you, we will look at what alternatives may exist.

My preferred method of contact is email. I will do my best not to contact you outside of this method. Should we identify each other online through any personal accounts on any social media apps, I ask that we both block each other and do our best to not engage with each other on these apps. Should we unknowingly engage with each other, I ask that we bring this into our next session and discuss how to move forward and what affect this might have on our work together.

Should we bump into each other in person in social spaces, I will do my best not to acknowledge or inform those around us of our relationship together and how we know each other. However if you would like to share this in the moment, I will follow your lead. I will not disclose any content from our work together, or make attempts to work with any content in that moment, and ask that you do your best to do the same. Should this happen, I ask that we bring this into our next session and discuss how this might affect our work together.

Please bring any questions, feelings and thoughts you might have about this to our next therapy session.