Is this normal for a T?

I see a therapist through my local community mental health center. I like her well enough and I don't have issues with transference with her, which is a plus. However, she seems to forget details about me pretty often. I've been seeing her for about 3 and a half months and I had to remind her today that I live in an apartment, not a dorm. She has also recently forgotten how old I am by a few years and some other details. I will sometimes have to explain the details of a certain situation 3 or 4 times over as many sessions, because she forgets them. Is it abnormal for her to be forgetting this kind of information or am I being too sensitive?

I've had Ts forget small details, but not to the extent you describe. I'd be pretty annoyed if I had to repeat a lot of things.

It always amazes me how much they do remember, especially the ones that don't take a lot of notes.

With budget cuts the way they are at so many places, your T may have a pretty heavy case load. There may not be a lot of time between clients, either, so what there is must be devoted to writing up the last session--not reviewing for the next one.

But it's an issue that would bug the daylights out of me--enough to maybe interfer with my therapy even. I'd ask. It's not something I'd let annoy me--& I urge you to be blunt about it. I can't imagine any T minding. It's not a personal question, it's just finding out how busy the practice really is.

That would drive me crazy. I would bring it up. My T doesn't take any notes but remembers everything. Right down to my birthday, which really surprised me the other day.

Agreed. My T does take notes, but for example last session she remembered a small detail I mentioned a few weeks ago. She also remembered the name of my cat which I only mentioned during small talk towards the end of a session.
It's nice when that happens.

I think that if it is bothering you, you should bring it up. After four months with T I finally stopped calling my husband "my husband" and started using his name. He was like, who is (husband's name)? I was baffled.. he forgot my husbands name. He apolgized and I let is slide.. Our t see sooo many clients I can understand if they forget details, or something we already told them.

My T didn't remember squat for YEARS. There wasn't much to remember, really. It was more important to me that he was active and engaged and aware and participating every minute of the session in a way that no T ever did before.

My T seems to forget details too. It's annoying. It's generally one of the first things that I go to when I start wanting to quit therapy. He's also at a Community Mental Health Center & I think he may be too busy.

The important stuff for a T to remember are your issues and what is involved with them and what the plan is to resolving them. Is it really possible for a person to remember every single little detail for possibly 30 clients? After many months, yes, they will get better at these little details but I would think it would take awhile.

I have a problem with this. I don't know if its normal, but my T seems to really have a problem retaining key events in my life. Ive never made it a big deal, but I am so close to it. He forgot something hugely significant in my life. I don't know how much we should expect them to remember, but I feel like it shouldn't be so obvious to us that they dont. I personally am insulted by it, but I try not to let it interfere because I like him.

My T is from a community mental health centre too. They have huuuuuuuge caseloads. They have clients with issues all over the map. It would be really hard to remember details about all their clients lives, since they have so many clients. Don't take it personally.

drive me crazy when T forgets stuff, but it happens so it sounds like it isn't so unusual. Can you discuss it with T, maybe she can write more down etc?

I wish my T didn't remember so much- drives me crazy!! especially when T brings up things I've said that I have changed my opinions on. Some things I don't want to remember that I told T.

Thanks to everyone for your responses! I am somewhat comforted by the fact that many of you have had the same experience and that I now know that T probably has a very large caseload. I don't think this will interfere with therapy. Thanks, guys!