AbuseConsultants.com is working to provide online treatment for sexual abuse and severe trauma in as confidential manner as possible.

Any clinical exchanges made will become part of your medical record and will be kept in a confidential manner like regular outpatient medical records. All records will be locked in secure files and will not be visible or available to anybody outside of AbuseConsultants.com.

According to Joseph Polauf, a social worker and web designer, in some states, medical records are considered to be the legal property of the therapist. All e-mails, IM transcriptions, and clinical correspondence with AbuseConsultants.com are considered to be part of the medical record.

It is illegal to copy or republish any of the therapeutic correspondence provided by the Clinical Director or any other therapist from AbuseConsultants.com in any media (books, articles, internet, etc.). If you have any reason to use the material provided by AbuseConsultants.com, please contact us for written permission at info@abuseconsultants.com.

At no time will clinical information ever be sold or distributed.

Without written consent to release information, the information provided to AbuseConsultants.com will not be provided to anyone at anytime. The only exceptions are:

Any suspicions of ongoing child abuse will be reported to the appropriate authority
Any acute suicidal or homicidal actions will be reported to the appropriate authorities
Any subpoenas from a court of law will be handled on an individual basis after legal advice as been received by AbuseConsultants.com.