[Victoria'smom]

Where do you see your T?
how many other T & pdocs are there?
Would you want a different situation?
Why?

[lotsofq]

Clinic
There are about 8 therapists there
I am happy with my current situation .... It is comfortable enough to feel safe, but uncomfortable enough to not settle and stop working on issues.

[HealingTimes]

Private Practice.

I have seen other Ts in clinics and group practices, but i prefer private practice most. It makes me feel more of an individual and less of a statistic.

[JaneC]

Mine is in a clinic. I am ok with it mostly....

The only difficulty is that in my work capacity I actually support my clients to see other psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers etc there...so it gets awkward occasionally when I am waiting for my personal appointment and they see me and want to catch up as if I am 'working'.

Makes me anxious from time to time......

[MotownJohnny]

Private practice, by herself. She shares office space with 3 others but they all work independently. This is only her side gig, she works ft in a private inpatient facility and sees a few patients in the evenings.

[Raging Quiet]

Private practice in her home. It doesn't have a waiting room and I walk through her home before we get to the 'treatment' room. Clinical settings scare me; I also saw an acupuncturist in her house.

[Blue_Bird]

Mine is in a clinic there are multiple other T's there, and a few pdocs and psych NP's. I prefer it that way since that's the only kind I've ever been to and am comfortable with it.

Private.

[healed84]

T is in a group practice in which he is one of the co-owners. There are probably about 7 other ts who are in the practice who range from full-time to limited part-time hours there. I haven't come across any issues with this, so I am quiet comfortable with the setting.

[granite1]

my T is from an agency that has funding from the state and private

[MoxieDoxie]

Both T's are private practice.

[atomicc]

My T is at the counseling center at my college, there's probably like ten other psychologists who work there on different days. I like it. I can go right from class to her, and I live only minutes from my college so it's a good setting.

[lrt1978]

Mine works in the Enchanced Primary Mental Health Team for the NHS, so I know there are all part of a team but they work there own caseload but have no idea how many work part of that team.

My T is in her own private practice. It's just her there. I like it this way...no one to interrupt sessions..less headache.

My T is in private practice located within a group practice if that makes any sense. He is located in an office with 3 pdocs and a slew of therapists, but he isn't a partner in the practice. He pays rent and fees for management/secretarial staff etc.

My pdoc, on the other hand, is co-owner of his group practice which contains 6 or 7 pdocs and numerous therapists.

I prefer than they are working within groups because they have staff to handle the paperwork, scheduling, billing end and when it comes to dealing with me, it is all about my care. It frees them up to answer phone calls quickly and spend more time doing the "work" of their profession instead of the "paperwork". Also, having my pdoc in a group has come in very handy. Even if he is unavailable, another pdoc in the practice is ALWAYS available in an emergency, and that has happened a few times. Someone ALWAYS gets on the phone with me immediately, and they are very good about contacting my pdoc if they think some change needs to be made (and then he gets right back to me at that point). They have a good system that works.

He has a private practice, but he is in the public health care system. This gives me the best of both worlds, as I see it: not too much paperwork for T and mostly free therapy for me, because he is in the system; maximum privacy for me, because only he works in his office and nobody else can get access to his journals.

Hmm. Actually I don't know how much paperwork T has to do. It has never encroached on my therapy, anyway; when I do have to pay at the beginning of each year, I pay in cash at the start of the appointment, and he writed a receipt, which takes about one minute. And I have a set appointment time, so scheduling takes no time - and in any case I really wouldn't want to talk to anybody else about my T scheduling, or any other aspect of my therapy. With exT, who worked in a group practice, I was always a bit uncomfortable about the fact that other people whom I hadn't even met - that is, the secretaries who handled the billing - knew I was in therapy. (Plus they sent the bills to my house, in an envelope with the name of the practice on it. I really disliked that!)

[Jdog123]

My T is in private practice. She has 2 offices - 1 in an old house where 2-3 other therapists have offices on the 2nd floor (dentist office on the first floor). She works 1.5/wk here, including Saturday, so I never see other patients while in the waiting "hallway" - hallway next to stairs with chairs lined up - which I like. My T is always on time, or early, and I live really close to this ofc so I'm never very early, but I do wait in my car if I am. Her other office (3 days a week) is in a group of 20 or so offices where other Ts are. Waiting room for part of the offices and here, too, she's an independent T. I REALLY like that she schedules her own appt/has no secretary because of the problems I've had with one who did in the past and I like talking to her to schedule. We have regular times but sometimes need to shift and I'd rather explain why to her rather than a secretary. Also, sometimes when I leave therapy I'm not in a place to talk to anyone/make small talk. So I do like her setup (even though the 2nd office is 20 miles from my house), and even better now that she got her own office in the place where she is 3 days a week - before she had 2 different offices in the suite, one of which had no windows and neither were nicely decorated. She decorated her own office very tastefully and it has a big window for natural light.

[RTerroni]

Clinic for me

[critterlady]

Private practice. It's just T and his wife and I've only ever seen her twice in the 21 months I've been seeing T.

[ready2makenice]

Private Practice, I prefer to feel like I'm a person and not another # but every time I go there another person is there,don't think they're even a T (maybe supervisor)but all the buildings surrounding in the complex I realized where T offices as well

[tinyrabbit]

My T is in private practice. He runs a small therapy centre with a few rooms for hire and several other Ts use it along with a few other kinds of practitioners (e.g. acupuncture) but I've only ever seen one other T there. They don't have a receptionist and he handles all his own scheduling etc so I don't ever have to go through a third party.

The interim T I saw in the summer was in private practice at her house.

[feralkittymom]

I first saw my T at the University Health Center, and I liked that. The building was concrete, and since it was a medical building, it had very heavy doors--very soundproofed. When I was no longer a student, I moved to his private practice, with 3 office changes over the years. All but one were not shared. My appointments were generally at night or Sat AM, so very quiet. He did his own billing once a month (no insurance processing). And he used an answering service for calls. Very simple, very private.

[Nerak67]

Mine is in private practice. Nice except I pay a fortune. Where I live most of the good therapists don't take insurance.

[stopdog]

Private solo practice, no staff.

[unlockingsanity]

Originally Posted by JaneC

Mine is in a clinic. I am ok with it mostly....

The only difficulty is that in my work capacity I actually support my clients to see other psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers etc there...so it gets awkward occasionally when I am waiting for my personal appointment and they see me and want to catch up as if I am 'working'.

Makes me anxious from time to time......

Maybe you should trying going into session in a disguise!!

Mine is a group practice. There are a lot of therapists and interns working there. I only see a few different people there as there aren't a lot of rooms, so it depends who is there on what day. I think a lot of them work part time.