Your Data
As you enter your details via the booking service (Calendly), the information is stored in their system, accessibly politically and technically by me (Ryan), and me only. The information is then automatically sent to my email (Google) and as such appears on my private devices used for work. For more about how Calendly and Google store and protect data, see their policies. You may make a request to me to delete your information and I am obliged to do that.
My Code of Conduct
As a coach and counsellor in the UK, I am committed to uphold professional conduct and ethical standards that are aligned with the ethics codes of the major accreditation bodies of the land. I am working towards accreditation with BACP and HGI and as such, I am required to follow and answer to them regarding conduct. In short, acting in clients' best interests, I vow to:
- Not discuss intimate and identifiable aspects of work with clients with anyone except those with whom I have a similar complimentary code of conduct such as my own counsellors.
- Not have sexual, emotional, nor business relationships with clients during work together or within 2 years of working together.
- Not exploit my professional relationship for extra financial nor social gain.
- Treat all clients the fundamentally the same on account of their sex, age, orientation and other circumstantial physical attributes and chronic maladies.
- Not harm or collude in the harming of my clients or their connections.
- Decline any gifts, favours, money or hospitality that might be interpreted as exploitative.
- Be aware of the power imbalance between the practitioner and client.
- Clarify engagements with existing clients' connections and manage whilst protecting confidentiality.
- Not unnecessarily invade the social spaces of existing or past clients and their connections.
- Offer only the forms of coaching and support in which I have had adequate training or experience, referring to other professionals in the relevant space where applicable.
- Understand the limits of my competence and stay within them in all my professional activity and refer clients to another professional when appropriate.
- Not communicate with clients when adversely affected by personal mental health reasons, or when impaired by the temporary effects of recreational drugs or medication.
- Provide on request, proof of relevant qualifications.
- Provide details and proof of professional indemnity (currently AXA).
- Provide ample warning to clients who are at risk of abusing my time and attention, before taking action to terminate the professional relationship.
Sincerely, Ryan Minti - Relationship Theorist and Counsellor.
