&gt; <i>It&#x27;s never okay for a psychologist to deceive their patients</i><p>This is not true, as there are certain cases where doctor&#x2F;patient confidentiality is explicitly allowed to be breached - if you credibly threaten the practitioner or other people, then the duty of care changes. If you <i>credibly</i> threaten to murder someone, then a mental health staffer is entirely within their rights to breach your confidence.<p>Your own situation you describe, of course, does not appear to be one of those cases.