How well does your t know you?

What do they know about you? Do they know what your hobbies are? Or what your really passionate about? Do they know your history in depth? Your friends by name? How your date went last week? Your cats name?

Just curious

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I only see mine about once a month now. So she can't really know or discuss weekly occurrences. Yes she knows my hobbies as they are very specific: creating something one can see. Yes she knows about my friends. She knows a lot id say. I am very chatty lol so I share a lot

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Everything.
All my hobbies.
All my passions.
All my history - working on the in depth part.
All of my current friends and some past.
What happens everyday in my life.
Both of my pets names, ages, health issues, etc

I realized that the one thing T doesn't know about me and what I never talk about is the only thing I actually do know about my T. Weird realization.

The subject: relationship status

She doesn't know if you are single or married etc? That's odd. Does she/he never ask?

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Well, she does know that when we started therapy I was single. And then it seemed as if that was meant to be forever. lol. We never talked about it anymore.
While I kind of know when she's dating someone new, breaks up, got married...

He knows me pretty well. Besides the work we did in session on my history which he probably knows better than any other living human being, we had enough casual discussion that he knows about my activities involving music and church. He has met and worked with my husband and sons, so he knows their personalities and they dynamics in our family. We talk animals as be are both dog lovers. I doubt he remembers my dogs' names, but I don't remember his dog's name either even though I know it has come up. We don't go into discussion of friends much so I don't think he knows much there. The only time I can remember that coming up was in a case of a friend and co-worker who committed suicide -- we definitely had a session about that.

He knows me so well its a little frightening.

One day I came to his office and he had a present for me. It was a poster of grumpy cat and it says I had fun once. It was awful.

I thought wow... that sums me up!!

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My ex-T knew every single detail of my life. Kind of weird that I haven't talked to her now in over a year.

I would not say all that well. There is little reason for the therapist to remember the details of things like my friends' or pets' names. The woman has a memory like a sieve so she does not remember even the last appointment with any detail. I would not have a reason to tell the woman things like how a date went or my hobbies and certainly not anything I was passionate about.

My old T knows me fairly well, hobbies, friends, work, some history, likes and a few dislikes. She asked questions, seemed interested, seemed liked she cared.

Middle T I stopped seeing largely because she didn't seem to care about my life as a whole one jot, even though we had had the conversation and I said that I felt that it helped. She still didn't seem to want to ask too many questions.

New T only a couple weeks in but has asked and I have offered bits so I feel like she will get to know me as a person. If it works out that is!

yes, she knows me very well. She might not get my pet's name right, but she knows I have him

I have no idea and could not care less if a therapist knows me. They are not part of my "real" life and I would find them pretending to know me disturbing and fake.

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They know what you want them to know if they can remember it I guess.

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I hate living here. I desperately miss mountains and the west coast.

Although she has been incredibly helpful, when it comes down to it she fails to understand what deep in my soul makes me tick. She keeps telling me to go for a hike in a park. Eff I want to hit people when they say that and she does all the freaking time. How do I get it through her head that it isn't the same? I was a mountain climber and back country camper for goodness sakes. I'm supposed to find a paved pathway as a suitable replacement?

Mine knows me really well. I never expect him to recall anyone's name, but he really gets me and we talk a lot about things in my everyday life, so he knows a lot about those things. I feel like with the way we both work there's no way he could escape knowing me well.

He's pretty good at remembering stuff about me and after 16 months we've covered a lot of ground so he knows the names of the most important people in my life. He also knows about my hobbies because they're quite important to me.
More important than that though, he knows how I tick and how I view and interact with the world. That makes him a great resource for me to explore my own internal landscape.

I have been with my T for years and she knows me as well as my husband does. I like it because it has brought us closer.

I would say my therapist knows me pretty well. There's no way she can know everything, and the history stuff comes out slowly, but in general I'd say she has a good picture of my life, current and past. I like to share whatever's bothering me, and she's easy to talk to. She finds things online, or that she's read about/heard about, that relate to things I've shared, and passes them on to me.

She remembers a lot of what I share--not all of it, but enough—and she strives to retain as much as possible. The striving means a lot to me.

t1 knows (and remembers) lots about me. Friends, kids, hobbies, work, family. He knows my service dog quite well and knows we have other pets and horses, although he doesn't know any of their names. He knows what church I attend, that I like starbucks. t2 and t3 don't know much-they do know I am married and have kids and a little about the kids.
All of them know about my history; some know more details than others.

Yes to all your questions. She knows everything, even names of extended family, she knows people at my work, names of old pets, what music I listen to, everything.

My T doesn't know me very well.

In general, I'm a very cautious (perhaps paranoid) person and I don't feel comfortable divulging my life story to my therapist. (There's nothing wrong with divulging your life story, btw. A lot of people do it. I just don't feel comfortable doing it.)

I don't mind sharing certain things with him, like my struggles with anger, depression, mania, etc.. I also don't mind talking to him about work and things in general that piss me off. It's really good to talk to him when I'm in a depressive episode. In fact, the last time I was depressed (which was last month), I cried in front of him because I wanted to die... Just voicing my feelings in front of him made me feel a lot better. So, those are the sorts of things I share with him.

I don't think my therapist even knows that I have a sister, and I've been seeing him since November 2015. But to be honest, that's kind of an irrelevant detail. My sister hasn't done anything that was problematic for me, so there's been no reason to bring her up.

If my therapist asks personal questions, I usually answer them as honestly as I can. I don't try to hide things. I just don't openly share things because I'm an anxious/paranoid person.

She knows me pretty darn well. She knows and remembers my h and son's names, and when I mention my siblings by name she knows who they are, she knows I have cats (but not their names), she knows my hobbies, that I love to swim, she always remembers who J is (my first love, even though I rarely talk about her)... there are even things SHE remembers that I have forgotten that I ever told her!! Sometimes it feels a little spooky how well she knows me and how much she remembers of things I've told her. ETA the other spooky thing is that she has said on more than one occasion that she "hears my psyche" and that's how she's known to bring something up that I wanted to talk about but couldn't bring myself to mention. That's happened at least twice that I can think of off the top of my head.

My t had phenomenal memory and she never takes notes

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My T knows me very well. Her memory's great and she also takes good notes.