Confidentiality

The Center for Counseling and Wellbeing services are confidential. This means that what you share with our counselor cannot be shared in any format with anyone, without your written permission. This includes your parents (assuming you are at least 18 years old), professors, roommates, or staff. This is to ensure that you feel safe enough to share information about what you are struggling with and what you are feeling.

There are a few circumstances in which confidentiality may not apply.  Under rare and specific circumstances, however, our counselors may be ethically and legally obligated to breach your confidentiality. The circumstances in which confidentiality may not apply are as follows:

1. Your counselor believes that you or someone else is in clear and imminent danger of harm (to self or to someone else). In this circumstance, your counselor is legally obligated to inform only those needed to help prevent the harm from occurring;
   
   
2. You provide information indicating that someone under 18-years-old is being abused. In this circumstance your counselor is legally required to notify the protective service authorities in the jurisdiction where that abuse is reportedly taking place or at reasonably high risk to be taking place.
   
   
3. A court orders your counselor to disclose information about you.
   
   
4. You are under 18 years old. Students under 18 years of age must have parental consent before they can receive our services. And for students under 18 years of age, their parents or legal guardians, by law, have access to their medical information.