Therapists and mental health clinicians
Separating your home address from your practice as a therapist
Clients in crisis sometimes seek contact outside the therapeutic frame, and a small number escalate to your home. Your licence is public, and therapy directories republish it alongside whatever address they can find — which for solo practitioners is very often a home address.
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Why the generic advice doesn't fit
Most privacy guidance is written for someone with no particular threat. Yours is specific, so the priorities change.
- Solo practitioners are the highest risk, because the business address and the home address are frequently the same.
- Therapy directories are a major exposure route and are separate from general people-search sites.
- Your licence record cannot be removed, only corrected.
Do this in order
- 01Get a registered agent or virtual business address and update your licence, your business registration and every directory.
- 02Then all free people-search sites.
- 03Then therapy and health directories.
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The sites to take down first
Free and unpaywalled, which means anyone can use them with no account and no skill. These are the real risk.
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