Yes, I agree I would never look inside of his car. I would definitely see it as an invasion of privacy. It's funny where each of us draw the line, isn't it?

The first thing I do when I arrive, usually 5 minutes early, is go to T's waiting room and get the key to the restroom. Then I go do that, and come back right on time. The door to his office is always closed whether he has a client or not. He always runs late, so I either look at one of his books in the waiting room (some great stuff!) or take a snooze. He can tell when the next client arrives in his waiting room by the sound of the door opening and closing (he's told me this before, and told me not to be too quiet so he knows I'm there). So when I first arrive to get the key to the restroom, I open and close the door to the waiting room very softly so he won't know I'm there. Then when I return from the restroom, I am much noisier, to announce, "hey, I'm here now." I like the keychain for the restroom. It's very welcoming.

All these little rituals are weird, but part of the experience.

My T does not have a leather chair. There are two couches and he either sits on one of them across from the client, or he sits in what I call his "therapy chair", which is a swivel chair on wheels. This lets him go where he needs to go in the room, right up near the client(s) wherever they may be. He is a family therapist so often has different family groupings in his office for therapy and who knows where they would choose to sit, so he has to be flexible/mobile. I like when he wheels his swivel chair right up practically into my face and looks at me intently.