My T took notes for about the first six months that I was seeing him. Now he only takes notes to jot down thoughts I have about a situation we are speaking of and he goes back over each thought and attempts to rewire my brain's interpretation of that thought. So I don't feel his notes are as personal as they were when I was first starting out with him.

But yeah, when I was first seeing him and he would stop to jot things down I would immediately start wondering in my head what was so important about what I'd just said that he felt it needed to be memorialized in writing for later reference. And once he had TWO files filled with scribbles he'd written, and at that point I had to ask, "Why do I have TWO files!?" He explained one was for the insurance company, just non-personal stuff, and the other was the file for what I said in session. He even read to me what he'd written about our first session, and it was all okay things.