How does your T greet you?

My ex-T used to pretty much ignore me when I arrived, she would open her front door and would not meet my eye, she said nothing. I would walk into her consulting room, she did not speak until I spoke. I know this is a method and I accepted it. My new T greets me with a hi and meets my eye. On my second visit to her she sat down and said 'how are you?' I felt that she really wanted to know how I was. That felt good. She says the same phrase each time I see her, and it feels good every time.

What is this method? My psychiatrist does this. She only does it when I walk into her office at my scheduled time, which I am allowed to do, because there is no waiting room. If she calls me in or gets me she says hello and so on. I find it quite perplexing.

I think it's called 'blank slate'. I don't really know, maybe someone else does.

Mine comes out to the huge waiting room to get me. It is mortifying BECAUSE NO OTHER DOCS DO THAT. It's a medical practice also so the nurse usually comes out for others. I feel singled out. It makes me so anxious I try to get there right on time so i don't have to sit there long. After a year I had the nerve to say something about how triggering it is for me. He said I could walk back by myself next time, but guess what he forgot and was on the phone and I had to walk back to waiting room. Humiliating! He apologized and guess what the next week he came out while I was paying and said Baseline come back when you are done. ugh

Sounds like he just likes to invite clients back personally. He probaby does that with all of his clients. That would seem to be a good thing rather than having other people do it for him. My pdoc and t both come get their clients personally.

My T just opens the door and says, "Come on through." We don't talk until he closes the door and sits down. Then, all he says is "Hi." He expects me to take it from there. That doesn't always start me off in a good way. It would be nice for him to ask how I'm doing or something like that...

I could always hear her heels and lanyard as she came down the hallway. As soon as she came to the end (and into the waiting room) she would stop, look at me and say, "Ready?" I would nod, put my kindle in my purse and she would wait for me so we could walk back to her office together.

He always walked to the waiting room and welcomed me with a big smile, eye contact and a handshake. He'd say something like 'come on in' as he opened the door to his practice. Then we'd both sit down and he'd ask me how I was doing, or he'd refer to something I emailed him.

I keep trying to remember how she greets me, but I'm drawing blanks. I think I just make a beeline for the sofa as soon as she opens the door. I'm not aware what she is doing. The whole scene is uncomfortable, which is strange because I'm very comfortable with her during session.

Varies, verbally. There's usually a smile involved, though.

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She used to come out into the waiting room to fetch me with a silent nod, or sometimes "Hi."

Now that we've changed clinics, she presses something which sounds a chime in the waiting room. Then I walk down the corridor to her room and knock while looking through the window in the door. She looks up, then open the door and we say "Hi." or she waves me to a seat.

When I saw my psychiatrist earlier this week I asked her if she does this. She told me no and stated that it is used in traditional psychoanaylsis, which I am not doing.

My pdoc is part of a large practice. She thanker me once for not hiding in a corner in the waiting room. She says sometimes she feels like she's 'bobbing for patients ' trying to find her clients. I thought that analogy was funny