GDPR for therapists, the simple version

If you take a client’s name and email to book them in, you are handling personal data — which means a little bit of GDPR applies to you. The good news: for a solo practice, the right approach is mostly common sense.

Keep less, worry less

The safest data is the data you never store. Bee-booked is built around that idea: we keep names, contact details and booking history — the things needed to run your diary — and deliberately keep sensitive health information out of the system.

A few sensible habits

• Only collect what you actually need to deliver the appointment.
• Tell clients plainly what you hold and why (a short privacy notice does the job).
• Keep consultation and health notes separate, and only with explicit consent.
• Let people ask for their data, or to be removed — and have a way to do it.

We will go deeper on each of these as we publish more guides. The headline stays the same: keep it simple, keep it minimal, and you keep yourself out of trouble.