Has your Therapist ever gotten you mixed up with another Client

Since most full-time Therapists see a number of Clients a week (probably at least 40 a week), I was wondering if anyone of here's Therapist has ever gotten them mixed up with another Client (I'm sure it has happened before), fortunately it has never happened with me before.

Its never happened to me either. I don't know how many other clients my T has, but I know its quite a few.
She has a remarkable memory for detail too

Madame T once called me by the wrong name, but I'm sure she never confused me with anyone else. I'm an unique individual!

She's never confused me totally with someone else. But I think she's confused some details at times that may have been another client's.

YES!

Once, a client canceled an appointment and T deleted me from the calendar.

Another time, T handed me a sheet with all of my payment history and said, "Here is the financial documents you asked for." I never asked for any documents. T looked so puzzled and said, "You never asked me for this?" Poor T.

The T has not forgotten my family history, however, or why I'm there.

Not to my knowledge-so if he did, he covered it nicely. Come to think of it he never calls me by name... maybe that helps

Mine hasn't as far as I know. And she can remember things about me and my life that I can't remember. It's really quite incredible (and fascinating...I'm really jealous of her memory).

He's called me by the wrong name "Carol" instead of "Chris", but that isn't the same as mistaking me for another client. He just misspoke. No big deal.

not that I know of. She has occasionally asked her if I was the person who told her something...it has always been very minor details

She works 3 different places (1 full time and 2 part time) so I don't think it is a big issue.

Either another real client or an imaginary one. She does not seem to retain info well. She uses my name a lot but I doubt she would remember it if it was not written in her appt book.

Yes, but not in the way you were probably asking. She had full on transference of her own - she started reacting to me as if I was a client from her past. She started treating me in ways that didn't seem to fit. Once she said something to me that was so out of place that it confused me. I thought - "did she say the right name? She said my name, but that sounds like she meant to say that to someone else." Somehow I triggered something that reminded her of that past experience with the other client, and everything changed. After much confusion, she now tells me that is what happened.

WOW that is pretty deep, hopefully you were able to move on from it.

She admitted to that? Was that difficult for you? I don't think I'd handle that well.

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Yeah just once, It was where I had met my husband and she got me mixed up with someone else, I said it wasn't that place and she looked puzzled. Bless her.

Whoa! That had to be confusing! I think that would be too hard for me to handle.

The only time it happened to me is with this new-ish T. I don't really like her yet.
She goes "are you the one that told me x,y,z....?"
I said "No, but tell me all about it. It sounds fascinating".
She stammered something about privacy and just looked at me. I felt kinda bad for her, but just a little.

T has never confused me with another client,more so has told me that I remind her of a previous client or people in her life.

Once we got into a disagreement because I told the woman I'd already mentioned a situation with her and she kept fighting me to nails and pins,that I never told her.

Nobody won that argument,but I'd like to say her memory is quite good for the most part

I'm surprised that she didn't realize that you were just joking.

My T told me I'm definitely memorable...which surprised me. I said "Really?" She just laughed and said yes..you definitely are. Made me smile.

I'm the only client he has done therapy with in English, and I like to think that that makes me memorable

Why did you choose to do therapy in a language not your own, when Swedish would have suited both of you?

I am not sure if my first T has ever mixed me up with another client or it was just his poor memory For first weeks, he was continuously forgetting that our sessions should be in English and for instance at the second week, when I told him something, he was very surprised and said that it's the first time when he hears that from me and that he was not aware of such problem. I made big eyes, and said "you know, I know that it is important, so I told you about it at the firs session", he looked confused, open his notebook, checked notes from the first session and said "aaaa yeah, right"... But if he was able to forget such important information I guess that he could also mixed me up with another client without any problem and I wouldn't notice it as he has never called me by name and usually didn't talk much nor recall something what I had said before...

Current T has an amazing memory, she remembers every single detail so I think she doesn't mix me up with other clients...

Because it wouldn't have suited me, that's one of the reasons I chose a T whose native language is English! When I asked him if I could see him for therapy, I also asked if he would mind us speaking English in session, and he had no problems with that. We switch back and forth sometimes, when one of us can't think of a word in English we pick the Swedish term instead, and we have sometimes done bilingual puns.

I don't want to derail the thread, but just briefly: I have no experience of talking about personal things in Swedish. None. Over the last forty years I have had three or four friends I could confide in, and all of them are English-speakers. When I try to speak about these things in Swedish I feel constricted and unable to find the words, and the words don't carry the right meanings to me.

I know that this is really bizarre (I'm a linguist after all, and even though I'm no neurolinguist I know some rudimentaries of that field - our native language is by definition closer to our inner lives) but it's how it works with me.