The Clinical Canopy
Privacy Policy - This explains how The Therapy Canopy collects, stores, and protects your personal data in line with UK GDPR and the Data (Use and Access) Act 2025.

The Clinical Canopy is a private EMDR & CBT Supervision service run by Catherine McWhirter - a British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Accredited CBT Therapist and EMDR Europe Accredited EMDR Consultant.

I am registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

You can contact me at: cmcwhirter@theclinicalcanopy.co.uk

What personal data we collect

I collect and process the following categories of personal data:

Contact and identity information:

  • Your name, address, telephone number, and email address

  • Emergency contact details

Additional information:

  • Enquiry details you submit via the contact form on my website

  • Payment information processed via my payment provider

How we collect your data

  • I collect personal data directly from you:

  • When you first contact me to enquire about supervision

  • Throughout our supervision sessions together

  • Through email, telephone, or video communication between sessions

  • When you make payments for sessions

  • I do not collect personal data about you from third parties without your knowledge and consent.

  • Who we share your data with

  • I do not sell your personal data. I will never share your information for marketing purposes.

Third-party services

  • I use the following third-party services which may process limited personal data on my behalf:

  • Yola — my website hosting platform

  • PayPal — for processing session payments

  • Teams — for online supervision sessions

  • Each of these services is bound by a data processing agreement that requires them to protect your information. Links to their privacy policies are available on request.

  • Professional access to your data

  • In addition to myself, the following parties may have limited access to certain information:

  • A clinical supervisor — who receives anonymised case material only if your supervision is discussed during supervision of supervision. Your name and identifying details are never shared.

  • An external accountant or bookkeeper — who has access to invoice data only (your name and payment amounts) for accounting and tax purposes. They do not have access to your therapy records or clinical notes.

Use of Cookies

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What are cookies?

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Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors or use the cookie control system if available upon their first visit.