I'm a child psychiatrist, and I'm afraid (and saddened) by the fact that it seems that another person with my name apparently murdered their daughter in the last couple of years.

I’m a mental health professional and found the previous comments by mental health professionals odd. I mean, I’m not indiscriminately all over the internet, but I’m a real person with my own interests and life (like a child seeing their teacher at the grocery store and realizing that yes, they do actually exist outside of school) and I’m not going to censor it just in case a patient wants to google me. I’m happy with who I am and don’t have anything to hide.

I got my therapist from DCUM. She’s been a major blessing in my life for a decade or so.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Any therapist worth a dime will have little or no public profile, or will at least have taken steps to minimize and hide it. Mine did pretty well, but I’m tenacious and reasonably good at research. Found her home address, husband (picture and some work stuff), and pictures of her kids. Of course, I was sort of trying to bang her, so seeing her husband wasn’t ideal. Though it did confirm she was straight.

That is CREEPY, PP. You stalked someone who was providing care for you, invading her personal life, while you were also hoping to have sex with her, which violates at least 2 pretty obvious ethical rules.

It sounds like it is you who is not worth a dime. What is wrong with you??

Public information, or information a person actually posts is in no way "stalking." I would absolutely want to know about court records, DUIs, and a bit about their life that informs their perspective. I want to research reviews and recommendations, places worked, etc.

I don't need all this for my ophthalmologist or even my gynecologist, but a therapist? Absolutely. Regulation is very loose in this discipline.

Why wouldn't you google or research your therapist? This is pretty much one task people absolutely should do.

Googled my child’s therapist, who would also give us parenting sessions. Therapist kept social media locked down but has an uncommon name so I still learned a lot. I think it changed the therapy dynamic in a good way. He has an unusual background.

Yes.

Anonymous wrote:Yes. I google all my doctors. My eye doctor is a lesbian!

"My eye doctor is a lesbian!" with the exclamation point made me laugh, no idea why.

I googled my child’s therapist to find out her professional credentials, and a YouTube video of her boyfriend proposing to her was one of the top results. I’ll admit I watched it.

I knew my own therapist’s credentials when I started seeing her so I’ve never googled her.

Anonymous wrote:I'm a psychologist. In addition to googling your therapist, might I also suggest that you look them up on their state psychology licensing board website to see if they have had any disciplinary actions.

For the really terrible stuff they usually take your license away, but there are still some people practicing who probably shouldn't be.

I will say when I was studying for the NCE (the counseling exam for licensure) I started reading ethics complaints to juice up my studying. It was so eye opening. All the stuff I thought was in the ethics code because someone was imagining terrible things, actually happens. So yes, look up your therapist and if your therapist is creepy, file a complaint.

I'm a psychologist. In addition to googling your therapist, might I also suggest that you look them up on their state psychology licensing board website to see if they have had any disciplinary actions.

For the really terrible stuff they usually take your license away, but there are still some people practicing who probably shouldn't be.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Any therapist worth a dime will have little or no public profile, or will at least have taken steps to minimize and hide it. Mine did pretty well, but I’m tenacious and reasonably good at research. Found her home address, husband (picture and some work stuff), and pictures of her kids. Of course, I was sort of trying to bang her, so seeing her husband wasn’t ideal. Though it did confirm she was straight.

That is CREEPY, PP. You stalked someone who was providing care for you, invading her personal life, while you were also hoping to have sex with her, which violates at least 2 pretty obvious ethical rules.

It sounds like it is you who is not worth a dime. What is wrong with you??

Cool. So “stalking” now includes sitting at your computer and searching publicly available information?

In that case I’ve stalked hundreds if not thousands of people.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. Any therapist worth a dime will have little or no public profile, or will at least have taken steps to minimize and hide it. Mine did pretty well, but I’m tenacious and reasonably good at research. Found her home address, husband (picture and some work stuff), and pictures of her kids. Of course, I was sort of trying to bang her, so seeing her husband wasn’t ideal. Though it did confirm she was straight.

That is CREEPY, PP. You stalked someone who was providing care for you, invading her personal life, while you were also hoping to have sex with her, which violates at least 2 pretty obvious ethical rules.

It sounds like it is you who is not worth a dime. What is wrong with you??

Not PP but I Google the home address of everyone I meet.

Okay. But how much do you Google them. I just Googled myself and "home address" and found nothing. In that situation, would you continue investigating, change your search terms? At what point does it become invasive, if you think that it's not invasive just to look for an address?

Also, what do you do with the information?

I use TruePeopleSearch & WhitePages. Just googling “Larla Doe home address” isn’t going to turn up anything.

I’m not going to do anything with it. With the address from those websites comes the person’s exact age. I generally type the address into Google and can see its zestimate

Anonymous wrote:And, I do nothing with the information. It's basically just to check to see if someone is who they say they are. I google.most people I deal with professionally. Doesn't everyone?

Clearly not. I don’t. Dates however…🫣

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. I google all my doctors. My eye doctor is a lesbian!

That… gets a exclamation point?

Yes it does. She's my first lesbian doctor.

Congrats! 😁😁