Limits of Confidentiality
Your identifying information along with any information that is accumulated though assessment and or treatment is confidential. There are however, legal limits to confidentiality. Please review the following:
If you are deemed to be high risk of hurting yourself or someone else, confidentially must be broken in order to protect yourself or others.
If children are in your possession and it is thought that they are currently being physically, emotionally or sexually abused, then confidentially will be broken in order to protect the child.
If in the case that a judge orders information from your file, confidentiality must be broken.
In the case that you fail to pay any outstanding payment agreement in a timely manner, your account will be turned over to a collections agency and you will be responsible for payment of services and any amounts incurred by the collections agency.
Confidentially of children/adolescents
In order to establish trust among children and adolescents, it is important that the information that is obtained in sessions is confidential. Often children/adolescents disclose information to clinicians that they don’t want their parents to know. If the information is not detrimental to the children’s health or safety and it’s asked to be kept confidential, that will be respected. If however, the child/adolescent discloses information that is detrimental to their health and safety, the child/adolescent will be informed that the information must be disclosed to their parents.
Confidentially between couples in counseling
At times when working with couples, couples are asked to attend an individual session to accumulate their individual background information. If an individual discloses something to the therapist that they don’t want their partner to know, it will be kept in confidence if it doesn’t pertain to the relationship. If the information does pertain to the relationship then the individual would be encouraged to disclose that information in a joint session.
If you are deemed to be high risk of hurting yourself or someone else, confidentiality must be broken in order to protect yourself or others.
If children are in your possession and it is thought that they are currently being physically, emotionally or sexually abused, then confidentiality will be broken in order to protect the child.
If in case that a judge orders information from your file, confidentially must be broken.
In the case that you fail to pay any outstanding payment agreement in a timely manner, your account will be turned over to a collections agency and you will be responsible for payment of services and any amounts incurred by the collections agency.
Payment & Cancellation Policy
Quigg Counselling & Therapy Services is a private practice and is not funded by MSI. However, our services are covered by many insurance companies. To determine coverage call your insurance company to see if your policy covers Social Work Services.
The fees at Quigg Counselling & Therapy Services are $175 an hour for individual therapy and $200 an hour for family counselling. In order to cancel an appointment without being charged for your session, we do require 24 hours notice. If an appointment is missed without sufficient notice given, you will still be invoiced.
In the case that you fail to make any outstanding payment agreement in a timely manner, your account will be turned over to a collections’s agency and you be responsible for payment of services and any amounts incurred by the collection agency.
The information that you fill in is confidential.
At Quigg Counselling & Therapy Services, it's important for our clients to be aware of our policies and procedures before consenting for assessment or treatment. It's important to note that all participation at the clinic is voluntary. Clients can withdraw from services at any time during treatment. Please take some time to thoroughly read over our policies and please ask if you have any questions prior to agreeing to the terms.
