[Ad Intra]

I'm holding back from doing it.

[kaliope]

i have googled my therapist.......not the last one, the one before, and i found my current one through google but i dont think i have googled her, no, i have i remember now cause i was googling her under the wrong name...lol, how dumb is that.

[Tongalee]

I did once... :/ I couldn't stop thinking about her one night and I was so upset and needed to see her face. So, I googled her and found one picture. It relieved my increasing anxiety for a moment, enough to get to sleep. I didn't look any further into her Google profile though. I didn't want to find anything that would ruin my idea of her and possibly our relationship.

[Puglife]

Yes, I'm good at finding out info on people online. Before I ever met him in person I Googled him to see his website and see if there were any reviews (there weren't). After I started develop a good relationship with him I looked him up to find his FB page and FB info on his wife. I look him up every few months but his FB page is rarely updated at least on the public level. But I was surprised when I found out about his recent vacation.

Only the information provided through the insurance company and his practice's website. Really no need otherwise. I know what I need to know about him; he's pretty open that way.

When i first met my t she told me to go ahead and google her (she is famous) so that it would help me learn to trust her, that she is who she says she is. It helped.

[rainbow8]

Yes, I've googled my T. Most clients do, either to find something out about them, to feel connected to them, or both. I told my T and she wanted to know what I found. She was okay with it but she doesn't think it's good for me.

A lot of people look up their T on Facebook too. There have been threads about the consequences of doing that. It's probably more accepted to google than to look on FB.

[WrkNPrgress]

I have, first just out of curiosity and once to show a friend of mine an image of her.
Occasionally now I do when I want to see her face. Like the other person in this thread, I do it when I need a pick me up, literally just a friendly face to remind me of good fuzzy feelings.
She has a Facebook but her online profile is very guarded. I see that she has lots of friends, that's about it. I wouldn't want to intrude beyond that.

[Ellahmae]

I did when I first started seeing her - nothing. Nadda. Zilch. Zero. This woman does not exist in the internet world.

[JaneTennison1]

I have googled her. Nothing interesting out there but I wanted to know who she was before I met her.

[chumchum]

I Googled mine and found things that made me gasp, lol. All through sessions he would talk to about relationships and repeatedly remind me he was straight and as a straight male he would give me dating advice. What I found on google was his dating profile for a LGBT site and he is listed as bisexual. For some reason it elevated my attraction to him.

[Lauliza]

Yes I've googled mine. It's really common and nothing to hold back from, unless there are things you really don't want to know about.

[NowhereUSA]

Yup. He knows too (I'm not embarrassed about it since I google everyone and he didn't much care either).

[scallion5]

Yes. After a few years of avoiding it I missed him and put the name in the search engine to get to his website. And I found out he's expecting a baby in May.

Sooo, uh, be prepared for whatever you find. (I wasn't.)

[doyoutrustme]

I did and I regret it.

[musinglizzy]

I googled mine before our first session... of course I wanted to see if there were any ratings out there or something. Nada. All I found were listings, but no ratings. I did find an article though, that was quite interesting. She'd written and published a book. A memoir from her childhood (which was very unusual). I bought it, and read it. About half way through reading the book, I admitted to her that I googled her prior to meeting her, and once I decided she was the one I was going to check out, I ordered the book. We didn't take up a lot of time, but I did enjoy talking to her about it once I finished it. She asked me if I saw her any differently now that I'd finished the book. I said no... but then said yeah. I said "I see you as a real person...." Sometimes we forget that T's are just normal people too.