No — and it matters that you understand this is not a personal promise but a legal structure. Everything you say in this room falls under the professional duty of confidentiality (Schweigepflicht, § 203 StGB). Breaking it is a criminal offence. This applies to the content of sessions, to the fact that you are in therapy at all, and it continues indefinitely — including after the therapy ends.

Concretely: I do not speak about you to partners, family members, employers, or doctors without your explicit, written consent. If someone contacts me about you, they receive no confirmation that I even know you.

There are narrow exceptions, and you should know them plainly rather than discover them in small print. Where there is acute danger to life — your own or someone else's — the law permits, and in extreme cases requires, breaking confidentiality to protect life. In many years of practice this remains rare, and where anything of the kind approaches, my first step is always to talk with you about it, not about you.

One practical note: my own regular supervision and intervision — standard professional practice — happens in anonymised form. No names, no identifying details. If you have questions about any of this, the first conversation is exactly the place to ask them.