She confessed her worries to her therapist: her marriage, her finances, and self-esteem. Therapists are legally and ethically bound to confidentiality, but two years later, a transcript of every word typed to her psychologist using the app Talkspace was produced in court by her former employer.
For now, at least. Legislation, and the legislators behind them, don’t seem to move in the right direction in regards of online ‘anonymity’.
As for the OP: I completely quit consulting any therapist the day I noticed them using connected apps/online services which happened to also be around the same time I first started hearing people wanting to get rid of confidentiality in the name of, your get it, protecting the children.
My therapist is now my personal journal. Well, technically, it has been my therapist for the last 4 or 5 decades but it is now the only therapist I feel like I can trust.
Sad times we’re living in.