My Therapist's Cathphrase

^^Exactly this!
"Where do you feel it in your body" is the one catchphrase that i am so so tired of hearing!
She is a bit 'alternative' so also believes in aura and chakras, and i think she tried to work out where i am feeling the pain in my body, so that she can relate it to a certain spiritual 'part' of myself..i don't even know if what i just said makes sense!

Mine doesn't have any real catchphrases, but there are a couple things she says a lot:

I tend to get lost in my thoughts often because I try to internalize things she has said or figure out what I want to say, so she will prompt me to share with "What's going on for you right now?"

When I get really anxious, she has named it my "scared little bunny" look, which makes me giggle a bit.

She often ends sessions (or emails) with the phrase "Take good care of yourself" which I find very nice.

"a PART of you feels that way, but that's not all of you"

I hate it. I hate catch phrases because I know that they are used with everyone and that it takes no thinking on her part. Give me a freaking reaction that pertains to what I just said, not some canned saying you repeat a thousand times a week.

(I'm grumpy today)

I got so I did not mind the catch phrases; if they are/were random and my standard reply/thought/feeling was a catch response, nothing changes. So, I assume they have meaning and look for it.

I was most bugged by "it's not like that" until I realized that it wasn't being said to stop me arguing but as a clue. When I began to trust that my T and I knew what we were doing, I dropped my previous train of thought when she said this and looked elsewhere for a better train, going closer to where I wanted to go :-)

If I didn't like what T said, I either asked why she said it "so often" or I kept working and would find out the reason myself, that I was just a slow learner I was getting ready to strangle her at one point if she brought up, "it's like when such-and-such happened.. ." again. But one day I suddenly understand what such-and-such was really about and how all the other stuff fit.

At the end, my T started telling me to "check your heart" which made me uncomfortable but ended up giving me the best results.

"Do you know what that's about?"
That's all I can really think of. However, she gives me a LOT of metaphors that she thinks about. It seems like every other session she comes up with a metaphor to capture my experience or to inspire me. She has said that I'm like a seed that's underground that will soon grow, but I just can't tell yet, she has said it is like I have been in a deflating raft and I have needed to jump into a new raft to survive, she has said that when I let go of my fears like letting go of a balloon, I can be free, etc. I like them a lot, but she does it very often. Just wondering: does anyone else's therapist do this?

I've gotten that too!!

Many times when I say thank you, she says, "I thank you. For the courage you've shown, the work you've been willing to do, the trust you've shown."

I am always touched, and comforted that in all my craziness I am giving something back to her - amazing.

This post should be stickied. Good one.

Yup.

"Where do you feel it in your body?"

Every time. This must be required learning for How To Be A T 101.

"Let's go back there and have a look around for the feelings."

"Go slowly, go quietly."

"Penny for them..?" - meaning my thoughts, when I've gone quiet.

And I've noticed lately that she'll often prompt me to say more or clarify by softly asking me "Because..?"

She also likes to use my name a lot. She likes to begin like "You know, [JSG]..."

I like these little things, though, it makes it easier to imagine what she might say in a given situation when I have conversations with her in my head

I know my therapist says this too and I dont get it.