If your T practise has one, what does they foyer/entrance look like.

Dec 06, 2015, 12:40 AM

I was just remembering the T's I saw before my present T and how first impressions impact on your feelings. One of the practices I saw had a fake water system with streams, ponds and waterfalls and they played New Age music/sounds. They also gave you a drink while you waited. I am not a fan of that stuff and being a nurse I could see only infection control issues with the waterway.
My current T has a couple of chairs a reception desk and a beanbag with a variety of stuffed toys on it and a blanket. There is a print on the wall.

stopdog · Dec 06, 2015, 12:41 AM

The two I see don't have what I would consider to be a foyer. I don't use the waiting room.

Dec 06, 2015, 05:45 AM

Funny thing with my therapist and her entrance. I arrived one day recently to see the front door of her office shattered. She has an office located in a local upscale shopping/professional office plaza. There was glass all over the floor in front of the door. Of course, my immediate thought was, "Uh oh, a client got pissed and came and kicked in her door." And then I thought, "Glad they didn't get in and rifle through all the files." She, of course, was completely unfazed and unflappable. She professed to not knowing what happened, but I still wonder if it was a disgruntled, angry client . . . perhaps my own projection LOL

PS. I did find out that NO OTHER doors in the complex where damaged so I think my belief that it was personal is probably right!

RedSun · Dec 06, 2015, 05:54 AM

My T works from her home. There is no waiting area so just get there on time!
Her house is small and pretty. I briefly saw a different T previous to this one, and I didn't like her practise room, the decor etc, it was part of the reason I didn't go back!

nottrustin · Dec 06, 2015, 07:48 AM

Her office is in her home. Her office is what was formerly a large enclosed front porch that has been made into. When you walk in the side door there is a small waiting room work a love seat and a coffee table with magazines. On the other side of that room is her office. I wait outside because I don't want to be sitting in the room when the client before me walks our. I want them to have privacy

atisketatasket · Dec 06, 2015, 08:22 AM

They're traditional blah waiting areas. Chairs, sofas (both ridiculously soft in both offices), music being played somewhere, inoffensive mediocre art. I like No. 2's better because she has Calvin & Hobbes books to read while you wait.

Dec 06, 2015, 08:36 AM

He practices in a large group practice. They have a very nice waiting area with a variety of sofas and chairs. When they moved into this office they clearly hired a decorator who came in and set things up. Very comfortable and relaxing -- a leather couch that I LOVE to sink down into and have fallen asleep in several times over the years.

Petra5ed · Dec 06, 2015, 09:51 AM

Oh it's so weird I love it! The waiting room is a hexagonal room with blue carpet and red and blue old style 1980's stuffed dining room chairs lining the walls. There's a window with what looks to be a 30 year old red drape that is just kind of a bizarre style. Also a few end tables interspersed in, some with magazines, and one with a CD player which is usually in operation playing some kind of classical or elevator music. And a noise machine is usually stuffed under one of the chairs softly hissing.

There's also a little kitchen and a bathroom area. The soap in the bathroom is a brand called "Get Clean" which I always wonder about. It's like the soap is sending some kind of message to the subconscious, plus I've just never seen this weird named soap anywhere else! Finally the whole place smells. Not bad, just its own distinctness to it, it smells like therapy. The waiting room is usually when all my insane thoughts come screeching to brutal reality.

ruh roh · Dec 06, 2015, 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by nottrustin

I wait outside because I don't want to be sitting in the room when the client before me walks our. I want them to have privacy

I wish my therapists other clients were this considerate. Some get there a half hour early or more, slam the outer door, fumble around, and sit right outside the door, just a couple feet from where I am. They could easily wait in the lobby downstairs or in a coffeeshop. It's really intrusive and disturbing. I've never had this with any other therapist in my life. She can't tell them to leave, though, so we are stuck.

Perry Gunite · Dec 06, 2015, 10:16 AM

What a good question.

I have experienced many a Different T office over the years when going to my own, or mostly taking a significant other or child.

My current T office is in an old New England Mill building. It takes almost 10 minutes to walk from the car to the office. I always enjoy the walk seeing the renovation work on a 100+ year old mill. I just stroll until my time and then enter the office of 4 T. The immediate foyer in the T office is typical chairs and couches around 10 year old tattered magazines. What matters to me is the space behind the T individual office.
Others have been in industrial parks to 150 year old Victorian Homes.
As someone else noted, I try to not spend time in a foyer or group waiting. I don't need that experience in my mind as it is not productive or of value to me. I too like the privacy of not sitting there or seeing others come out

junkDNA · Dec 06, 2015, 10:23 AM

my T's practice is also a mental health community center. it's a house he bought. the main area has a couch and chairs, a table with toys and books and colored pencils/coloring books. the walls are a grey/blue color. there is a table with tea and tea supplies and water. there are plants and decorations. off the main area is the craft area with all kinds of craft supplies and tables n chairs, etc. there is a kitchen behind that. then there are 3 offices for him and the other Ts to use.

Dec 06, 2015, 10:26 AM

The first year I saw current t, her office was in a complex of professional buildings and it was so beautiful there, all one story, lots of trees and flowers, and there's a big fountain at the entrance of where her office was, then in a little farther her office was in a courtyard area that had a smaller fountain. And the waiting room was very calming/peaceful because I could hear the fountain just outside the door and she had very calming music playing softly in the waiting room. After she moved I never saw that office of course but it was in her home. Now that she's moved back, she's working out of her home again, and the 'waiting room' is a couple of rocking chairs on her porch. I sit in my car or go for a walk if I'm early. She's in a kinda rural area, there's a long gravel road that goes back to her house. Lots and lots of trees.

Dec 06, 2015, 07:08 PM

T has a private practice in a professional building. The waiting area is small. It's cozy with dim lighting. There are pieces of art on the walls.

ilikecats · Dec 06, 2015, 08:03 PM

When I step into the building, I go to the left to enter the waiting room. There is a receptionist desk behind some glass walls, and a little couch and a few chairs and a table. Then there's a long hallway down to her office. I kinda like it, but I also feel kinda awkward because I can see the receptionists from where I sit.

justdesserts · Dec 06, 2015, 10:11 PM

My t office is a desk for the receptionist to pay at and then four chairs up against a wall. They have lots of great magazines and beautiful Life Magazine type books. There's no fluorescent lighting. It's very comfortable, but I've never waited more than five minutes there. It's a small practice of three therapists.

My pdocs waiting room/reception area is HUGE and checking in feels like going through a cattle shoot. There are probably 30+ chairs in the waiting room and it feels very sterile. I've spent much more time waiting there.

kecanoe · Dec 07, 2015, 09:09 AM

One waiting room is big and bright and high ceilinged and lots of art on walls. I don't like it. It's a big practice so lots of coming and going. Other is a visually quiet room where I am the only one waiting. I much prefer that (even though sometimes there is elevator music playing)

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