Table of Contents: 1. General Ethos 2. Absolute Anonymity 3. Money-back Guarantee

You are guaranteed anonymity and absolute confidentiality during the entire process with me. When reading my ethics and policies, it is important to remember that I am not a government-regulated clinician. This means that I am free to establish my own code of ethics, which is based on a very high regard for privacy of personal information. I believe that the government and private corporations such as insurance companies should stay out of the personal lives of individuals. If I were a clinician I would be required by the government to collect information on you such as your name, social security number, etc., but because I work as a philosophical practitioner, not a government regulated clinical practitioner, I don't have to follow the privacy-violating government regulations that clinical practitioners are ethically bound to. (For now, the government does not regulate the practice of philosophy, but it will probably only be a matter of time before it does.)

I handle my case files in a way that ensures anonymity while I take notes and build case studies, which are crucial aspects of my theoretical and statistical development. In order to carry out an analysis, I don't need to know your legal name, what you do for a living, where you work, your social security number, etc. I don't need any personal identifying information on you at all, because there is no one to whom I am required to report your information. I don't work for an insurance company, a governmental agency, a hospital, an academic institution nor any other institution. I am a solitary practitioner, free from the constraints of governmental control systems, thus I can offer my analytic work with a higher set of standards than what anyone working in any government regulated field can legally offer.

I assign a case number to each file rather than a name, and I do not ask anything about you that changes you from being anonymous to being someone specific. My intention during the analytic process is to make sure that you remain very comfortable and open during my questioning process, and this is accomplished much better in an anonymous exchange.

I conduct all of my work with a money-back guarantee. By the end of the basic analysis process, if you don't feel like I've helped you, I will give you your money back. I believe very strongly that this should be standard practice for all psychotherapists, psychoanalysts, psychologists, psychiatrists, counselors, consultants, and therapists of all types. I believe that it how it 'should' be, but as it stands now, most persons working in the field of mental health care do not offer a money-back guarantee.