She works with many people with similar issues regarding depression and SI so she won't attach a stigma to you. She is right about having to tell your parents if you are currently a danger to yourself. If you tell her how long it has been since you last cut and stress that you don't intend to do it any time soon then you'll be fine. Often it is more linked with if you have specific plans to injure yourself or to end your life. I have always got around it by only telling them of past events and urges to harm myself, not any plans I may have to do so in the following week.
Thing is when I have been in therapy it is because I was referred due to SI or suicide attempts. So they knew I was depressed to begin with. Erm, the best I can suggest is just blurt it out. When I have had something big playing on my mind they have always known. I am torn between telling them because I want help and keeping it secret because I don't know how to say it or even if I really want to say it. In the end they ask me what it is I was going to say and I blurt it out after a fair few moments of continuing debating with myself. Then we discuss it and can sort things out.
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