How do you address your T?

Is your T a psychiatrist, psychologist, or therapist/social worker?

Do you call T by his/her first name, Dr. "last name", or another title (Mr./Ms./Mrs. last name)?

I don't usually have a need to address them as anything. There are only two people in the room and I assume they realize I am speaking at them and that we each know which is which. If a need were to arise, I would use their first name. I have sometimes, in sort of a filler way, refered to the woman as dude. I only use last names or titles with anyone if they use mine also.

my T has a doctorate in psychology. i call him by his first name

Good point, SD. Mine is a psychologist. Formally, he's Dr. _____, but I never call him that unless I'm speaking to a new office worker who is still learning the ropes or referring to him with my pdoc, etc. IF I call him by name, it is by his first name.

Dr. Last Name. She's a psychiatrist

My T has a doctorate. I call her Dr. LastName. Occasionally I draw a distinction between her professional and personal lives. Then I refer to her as Dr. LastName and FirstName, respectively.

Her first name when the need arises, usually if I'm talking about her but haven't used it talking directly to her yet.

My therapist is a psychiatrist. I address her by her first name. If she didn't want me to know it she wouldn't sign all her emails and refer to herself by her first name only. Using her first name makes therapy a little more intimate or less clinical even though I see her in the community. I'm also not formal.

Doctors don't deserve to be called Dr. _____ and treated like gods.

Dr. First initial of lastname. I don't think he'd mind if I called him by his first name, but I don't want to on some level... I need him in that parent/teacher/mentor-ish role

Eta: actually I think I would like to call him Dr. Firstname, like kids do their doctors, but it'd weird me out a bit...

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most T's I've called by their first names, usually because that is how they introduce themselves.
One T had a PsyD. A tthe beginning, I referred to her by her title and last name. As time went on and things became more formal, I called her by her title and first name or first initial. I could have asked her how she prefers to be addressed, but I was too shy, as if I should have figured that out on my own. She never corrected anything. She changed what she addressed herself wiht the level of formality required for the interaction (in communicating with other professionals, she used her full titile and name, when leaving messages, she would use her title & cirst name or initial, or drop the title and use her first name. In recent text communications, she just used her initials).
If it feels too formal, I don't feel a connection or much trust. Even with my PCP, we often refer to eachother by nicknames.
When talking to friends or family about my therapist, I use first names to identify them.

First name.
I think she is a dr, but it would be odd in the uk to address a therapist or counsellor by their title and last name. You might in hospital if you saw a psychiatrist or something who you weren't familiar with, but if you worked regularly with them I think you'd use their Christian name.

I call my T "Dr. Lastname" when I talk about her, but she would prefer that I call her by her first name. I am just not comfortable doing so.

First name, and I use it pretty often. Like little_didgee says, it's less clinical. It's also important for me to humanize her. Using her name helps do that.

My T has a PhD, and I call him Dr. LastName, though I don't think I actually have to address him by name often. I wasn't sure at my first session. At the end, I had to write the check and asked how to address it (some people have business names they use, for example), and he said, "Dr. LastName", so I assumed that's what he wanted to be called. He also signs emails that way, or sometimes "Dr. L" (instead of "LastName").

Once though, he was giving an example of how I might say something, and he said, "LastName... blah-blah-blah". It sounded funny, I can't imagine just calling him by his last name (short, one syllable, like: "Smith! You're full of crap!").

I don't really care, as long as it stays consistent and I'm not getting yelled at for it!

My T is a therapist. MA level. and I am sorry to say I don't think I've addressed her by name or anything - to her face. I've had this conversation with myself. "Why can't I think of T by her first name?" Why can't I just walk in one day and say "Hello, (firstname)" ?

When I talk about her to people I call her "my therapist." I feel uncomfortable with using her first name in my head. Sometimes I practice writing it out when journaling about therapy because I think it's related to some deeper issues I have with casual connections and trust etc. Like maybe I'm trying to avoid further transference issues.

Come to think of it- she doesn't use my name that often either. LOL. I've heard her address me by name on rare occasions- usually in a big moment.

But it would be a nice grerting if instead of just "Hello, how are you?" She said "Hello, (Myname), How are you?"

My therapist is a psychologist and a psychotherapist. We address each other by our first names.

My T is a psychologist and has a Ph.D. I address her by her first name.
My Pdoc has dual doctorates. I address her as Dr. Last name, even though she's okay with me addressing her by her first name.

In email I use the first name, face to face I don't use anything.

My T has been allocated a nickname so when I write about him or address him I use that. Although I think if he was in trouble I'd use his real name (like when parents suddenly include your middle name when calling you).

Mine is an LSCW and the first time I called her by her first name she really flinched. That was weird but then again she's a bit rigid. now she is accustomed to it.

More interesting how does T address us? We are the people seeking care and we are more important in the equation. Not the credentialed LCSW, PsyD, PhD or MD. We need to hear our names and get a smile of welcome.

Admittedly the dynamics are interesting but there is no one way to address a T. It is their job to deal with it as long as we arent calling them bad names. Not too often anyway

My therapist is also a psychiatrist and most of the time I don't address her at all because I don't know what to use. If I really have to it's Dr Lastname, though in the few emails or texts we have shared over the years she always signed X.Lastname and didn't use her title.

T1 I called by her first name (she was 15 years younger than me) even though she referred to herself as "Dr Lastname". I asked her if first name was OK and she said yes, but she was lying. I didn't care, Dr Lastname was too formal for such an intimate relationship and she needed to loosen up a bit anyway. She was a psychologist. T2 introduced herself as firstname and that's what I call her and she is fine with it. She wouldn't like last name. NEITHER of them (but especially T2) can get the hang of the pronunciation of my name. It's not hard either, sigghhhh

Doctors are people like everyone else and are not gods. I agree. There's no reason why they shouldn't be called a title they earned. Do you want to strip away other titles such as Colonol, Lieutenant, Counselor/Your Honor (judge), Mr. and Mrs.?

I wouldn't want to see a god for therapy, I want a real living, fallible person. Calling her by her doctor doesn't make this less so.

Titles (including the equivalents of mr and mrs) are never used in addressing people here, with a very few exceptions (members of the royal family, for instance). And we don't use people's names when we talk to them either, unless we need to indicate whom we are talking to. So I don't call my T anything, but if I did, it would only be possible for me to use his first name. In txts and letters, I open with "Dear [firstname]".

He is a psychiatrist, but that doesn't affect the address one way or the other.

I use her first name... I wrote her a letter and started it off with her "first name", then explained that calling her Dr. "last name" seemed too intimate (she has a PhD), yea I know it should be the other way around but for me it isn't.