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Googling Thing

Posted by Veracity on March 23, 2006, at 16:39:25

In reply to Re: Above not meant to be posted to myself, posted by Dia on February 28, 2006, at 22:14:56

I Googled my therapist's name BEFORE I ever called to schedule an initial appointment. There's not much out there on her and what was there is strictly professional (journal articles and professional listings). I am interested in knowing more about her, certainly, but I doubt there's anything on the Internet. And as I've matured through therapy and learned more about how the relationship works, I realize the less I know about her, the better. I ran in to her at the grocery store once and saw what kind of cereal she buys. I hated knowing even THAT.

But here's the thing, I'm almost 99% sure that my therapist googled ME. I have never talked about my work or professional interests in therapy in any real way. She's asked at times but I never talked about it - it's just something I do not like to talk about and I didn't find it relevant to my therapy. But she's made a couple random comments at different times that mention information that I know for a fact I have never divulged in our sessions but that I know is readily available if you were to google my name on the internet.

I don't feel violated or anything, and I can understand why she would do that (if indeed she did) because I have never really opened up at all about my life beyond the symptoms/problems that brought me to therapy in the first place. Now if she hacked in to my e-mail, that would be another issue entirely!


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