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Originally Posted by Quietmind 2
Couch poll: Do any of your Ts use white noise machines? I wish mine would. Or even a radio playing music in the waiting room. No idea why the staff stopped playing music.
It really bugs me how bad sound transfers in my therapist's current clinic. She's always surprised when I bring it up, saying they get few complaints... but I'm of the opinion that people just don't complain. I wouldn't care about unintelligible speech, but I literally can hear short phrases?
I sit on the end furthest away from the therapy room already, and I wait outside the clinic door sometimes.
I've a portable white noise machine a friend gifted me, but ideally it should be hung outside the door, which I can't do.
I hope hanging it inside the room from the door handle works. Or putting it on the furthest corner of the couch.
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My current one does not, but I've never really heard much in the hallway and definitely nothing from the waiting room--the way it's laid out, it's fairly distanced from the actual offices. They did use white noise machines outside the doors at the first location of ex-T and ex-MC's office (don't think they had at the second, I forget). I think they helped, as I didn't hear anything from the waiting room (well, aside from a client, I think a child, screaming, but a white noise machine won't help with that!)
I do think it could help to have it inside the room, too. When I've done Zoom sessions at my house, I use both a fan outside the door and a white noise machine inside the room. If nothing else, I think the white noise would help to sort of blur/muffle the sound, so it would be harder for someone outside to hear what you or your T were saying.