[Sweetlove]

I was thinking about how my T comes out to get me...he used to walk out and say hi and say "come on back". Now, since we have gotten a lot closer, he usually just walks up to me and gives me smile or makes some sort of funny comment about what I was doing while I was waiting for him.

Just wondering how your T greets you or comes out to get you? Or, to be fun, how would you want them to greet you?

I'd like my T to give me a hug and say "Ugh, I've waited for you all day!"

[BlessedRhiannon]

My T usually just walks in to the waiting area and smiles at me. I think she tends to take her cue from me as to whether or not we talk on the way back to her office. If I am really quiet, she usually just walks me back in silence. If I initiate small talk, she'll engage in small talk.

My T knows that I get really anxious if there's a lot of people in the waiting area. Today, the waiting area was very quiet and empty, and she asked me how the wait was.

I'd love for her to come out and say "Hi Rhi! I'm so glad to see you. Come on back!"

[Twisti]

Mine says "Are you ready?" or "Come on back" or the like

[granite1]

my T usually comes to the waiting room and looks at me i get up and follow her upstairs to her office.she doesnt say anything untill after the door is closed then she will say hello

[PTSDlovemycats]

mine says "Hey Kiddo, come on in"

[koalabb123456]

She smile at me and said*Hello, how are you*

The receptionist calls to say I am there. My therapist replies,"Send her on up." Then I go up the stairs (ever so slowly)! She usually says, "Hey, come on in." Then asks me "Where would you like to begin today?"

[granite1]

i remember once i showed up and was waiting behind someone at the desk to pay my copay and she came downstairs to bring some paperwork to the desk and i accually smiled at her and said HI she just kind of looked at me and as she walked bye me said excuse me...OUCH that hurt.guess i crossed some boundry

[Chronic]

Thankfully my T is usually ready when I get there and meets me at the top of the stairs. I get so anxious that Im actually finding it quite hard to remember what he says but its something like "welcome, come on in" and Im really bad with eye contact too so I dont hold it long enough to really see his expression. Im gonna take notice of this next session though!

I would love him to say "Ive been waiting to see you all day~ Ive got the adoption papers ready now" !!

[WePow]

If my T is running late (normal for him ) he will use the restroom first and he says "I will be right back" . Usually he says my name and "Come on back" in a way that I never had my name said by anyone else (I grew up HATING my name thanks to my father saying it). So when he does that, I smile on the inside. That is my favorite greeting because it feels like he is actually happy to see me.

[Can't Stop Crying]

Originally Posted by Chronic

I would love him to say "Ive been waiting to see you all day~ Ive got the adoption papers ready now" !!

Good one!

I don't like it when T says my name...I know it's weird, but I don't want any other clients to know my name.
He usually says my name and then I'm ready for you

[Elli-Beth]

Mine says "Hi, you can come on back if you're ready." Someday I'm going to reply "Not yet" just to see what he'd do...

[Omers]

Mine usually says "Om, come on back" but sometimes she throws a few different ones:
Where's the cat?
A new cat? I'll love to meet him!
Hi Itty (the name of the cat that used to come with me)
Where's the dog?
No friends (4 legged) today?

I love her dearly but it is rather clear where I rank... Just below any pet I may bring.

[Omers]

Oops... forgot part 2 of the question... used to do that on tests too...

I would like a hello hug as well as a good bye hug... which, if I was brave enough to ask for I could most likely get.

[WikidPissah]

Originally Posted by Sweetlove

Just wondering how your T greets you or comes out to get you? Or, to be fun, how would you want them to greet you?

There is one door in the waiting room that leads to several providers, so while I am waiting the door opens a few times and I look up to see if it's my T. When he finally does come, I just look at his eyebrows for a second. I learned in studying non verbal language that raised brows mean the person is happy to see you, where as lowered brows are the opposite. I don't think he says anything, when I get thru the door he offers water, which I always refuse because I won't drink from a cup someone else has touched (my weird germ-awareness again). He usually starts with "what were you listening to?" because I always have my headphones on. Then he gets around to "how are you doing, and don't say fine"

[egoalien]

"Come on in."
Walks behind me into the room in silence...
"How are you feeling today?"

[karebear1]

WP-

"how are ya doing and don't say fine." HA!! that made me laugh outloud!!!

Now I'm gonna have to watch my T today and see if she raises her eyebrow or not when she looks my way............ probably won't today though as I've had a tough week and she knows it.

My T just comes out and calls my name and I get up and go into her office. She ALWAYS follows me into the room instead of leading me there. I think she's checkin' out the body language to see what she's in for for the day! Once, she actually had to come very close to me and said my name very quietly because I had fallen asleep (sitting up) on the sofa in the waiting room and didn't hear her the first time she said my name.

[Fartraveler]

I don't wait in the waiting room, because it makes me feel trapped and anxious. I wait down the corridor (there's a spot she can't see) and then she goes to the waiting room to see if I'm there, and then she goes back to her office. And then I go to her office, by myself. And then she says, "Come in. Shut the door. Why don't you have a seat?" (I think I need the prompts -- if she doesn't tell me what to do, I just stand at the door to her office.)

[lastyearisblank]

Hi, blank....

[sailboat]

"Hello miss sailboat" *shakes hand*

[kitten16]

My T was better at the beginning than at the end of our sessions. He would open the door and sort of lean on the knob, dipping down a little bit (with maybe his far leg off the floor just a bit). He'd usually say, "Hey," or "Hey Kitten." Big smile, which charmed me at first. But then, something odd -- he would scurry backward into the office, instead of allowing me to precede him. So he'd get into the room first, and then sit down. I would have to shut the door, with him staring at me while I did so, and the walk over to the sofa -- it was a larger room and that walk seemed to take forever. Very strange. And then at the end of the sessions, he would STAY SEATED and watch me get the door myself and see myself out. I REALLY hated it, but I don't think I ever said anything about it.

In the newer building, the logistics were slightly different, and he would actually hold open the outer door and wait for me as I entered the room ahead of him. That felt better, more normal than what he was doing before. But at the end of the sessions he would still just tell me it was time, and then he'd stare at me as I stood up and saw myself out. Really really bothered me. (Not a main reason why I terminated, but part of an aggravating pattern of his bizarre behavior over a period of months)...

Sometimes I think he was avoiding me physically, but in a such an obvious way that it was comical. I once left my wallet in his office. When I came back to get it the following session, he brandished it, then dropped it on the desk and walked back to his chair. Like it was on fire, or I was. He just couldn't bring himself to actually hand it to me. So fricking freaky.

[Marie123]

He walks out, looks at me and says......Alicia! I walk in and give him a hug.

[3velniai]

She opens the main door, says "hi, come on in, wait a couple of minutes as always, ok?" and goes finished the appt with the other person. After the other client leaves she stands in the waiting room while I put away the book / drawing / whatever I had out to spend the time and follows me to the therapy room, we sometimes have small talk about weather or smth. She usually goes to the room first and switches the big lamp off (I like when it's dark in the room, just a small light in the corner) and I close the door. When I get settled she asks me how am I and then we start to talk about something.

[sunrise]

My T pops his head out his office door and says "come on in," and then he goes back in. I enter and go to the couch, while he finishes up some business at computer, and then he comes on over. I will usually close the door to the office myself, because T is occupied at the computer and I don't want to be sitting there with an open door. There have been a few times when I don't enter the office right away and I always say, "be there in a sec." This is when I am in the middle of writing my check out to him.

[Perna]

My T was usually silent I think, didn't "greet" me or anything. Sometimes I guess she would say "You can come in now" or, "We can start now" as she beckoned me to go down the hall to the office. She would follow and close the door and we'd both sit and it would be up to me to start the session proper. It didn't feel cold or anything and was clear from her looking at me, expression, smile, and body movements what was going on.