My therapist and I meet through Skype, so my waiting room is my home. I log in, then wait for him to contact me. I get excited when I see him appear online..

Before that, I didn't have issues because he is very careful with his scheduling so that normally, I don't have to run into another client. He works to ensure things are on time, although sometimes it's not preventable.

Psychiatrists can't usually do that b/c scheduling doesn't involve that level of precision due to patients in crises and other factors. Last T was a psychiatrist, so I always had to be in the waiting room with others. One of his patients raged to me, using me as a sounding board. I didn't like that b/c my mother did that all the time!

ONe of the psychiatrists I saw, when I was searching for a new therapist, had me wait in a closet! It was literally==a small closet! It had a chair and a white noise maker. There was a large waiting room outside because he shared an office suite with some others, but he insisted I wait in the closet so that i would not run into his other clients! I'm not even claustrophobic, but it was very anxiety-provoking!.