Privacy policy.

Psychological service provision - Privacy

As part of providing a psychological service to you, Equanimity Psychological Services Pty Ltd needs to collect and record personal information from you that is relevant to your situation, such as your name, contact information, medical history and other relevant information as part of providing psychological services to you. This collection of personal information will be a necessary part of the psychological assessment and treatment that is conducted.

Purpose of collecting and holding information

Your personal information is gathered as part of your assessment and treatment, is kept securely and, in the interests of your privacy, used only by your psychologist and the authorised personnel of the practice (as necessary).

Your personal information is retained in order to document what happens during sessions, and enables the psychologist to provide a relevant and informed psychological service to you. 

Consequence of not providing personal informationIf you do not wish for your personal information to be collected in a way anticipated by this letter or the Privacy Policy, Equanimity Psychological Services Pty Ltd may not be in a position to provide the psychological service to you.

You may request to be anonymous or to use a pseudonym, unless it is impracticable for Equanimity Psychological Services Pty Ltd to deal with you or if Equanimity Psychological Services Pty Ltd is required or authorised by law to deal with identified individuals.

In most cases it will not be possible for you to be anonymous or to use a pseudonym.

Access to client information

At any stage you are entitled to access your personal information kept on file, subject to exceptions in the relevant legislation. The psychologist may discuss with you different possible forms of access.

Disclosure of personal information

All personal information gathered by the psychologist during the provision of the psychological service will remain confidential except when:

1. it is subpoenaed by a court, or disclosure is otherwise required or authorised by law; or failure to disclose the information would in the reasonable belief of your Psychologist, place you or another person at serious risk to life, health or safety; or your prior approval has been obtained to

a) provide a written report to another professional or agency. e.g.,a GP or a lawyer; or

b) discuss the material with another person, eg. a parent, employer, health provider or third party funder; or

c) disclose the information in another way; or

d) disclose to another professional or agency (e.g. your GP) and disclosure of your personal information to that third party is for a purpose which is directly related to the primary purpose for which your personal information was collected.

Your personal information is not disclosed to overseas recipients, unless you consent or such disclosure is otherwise required by law. Your personal information will not be used, sold, rented or disclosed for any other purpose.