Pet names in therapy...

She doesn't call me anything except when she's annoyed. Then she uses my first name. Pet names are for family or close friends, I don't see my therapist ever using one of those.

My therapist calls me a warrior princess or warrior queen

darling, dear, honey, sweetheart, princess

I wouldn't know how to react if she called me a pet name. Considering were not that far apart in age, I may find it just too odd.

Standby therapist calls me, my dear. Former therapist called me sweetie when I was decomposing in hysterics and a child like state. We use each other's first names quite often in sessions.

It would feel strange to hear that from my T. We're too close in age for me to be a 'pet' or whatever. It's interesting, I think this might be part of the reason, subconsciously, I clicked with her- because we don't relate that way.

Egads. I can't even imagine this kind of thing happening. I would like it if she spoke my name a time or two, but there doesn't seem much point in that considering we are not in a crowd of people.

I can't seem to get the first one to stop saying my name. I am like "dude, I know who you are talking to. There are only two of us in here. I am not going to get confused."

As far as I can tell, they do that to try and connect/attach with clients. I never hear my first name so much as when I am in a therapist's office.

That's interesting as my T only uses my name (,well her nickname for me) when I am dissociating or she thinks I'm really upset

This is exactly how my therapist was.

My therapist just calls me by my name. It would make me extremely uncomfortable if she called me anything else.

my T calls me by my name when he's being serious... like if im doing something dumb or sobbing on his couch. otherwise he calls me a variation of my middle name which is an inside joke between us... some people have actually thought the nickname is my real name and i have to explain it

My T refers to himself by his first name but I have NEVER used it. Whenever I talk to him or write him an email I refer to him as Dr. (Therapist Name).

I once signed a text with a contraction of my christian name not a pet/nickname because I was lazy but my t saw it another way, as in overly familar.

On the other side I didn't use my T's name ( either Dr. X or first name) for the first 2 years I saw her because I wasn't sure if I was supposed to call her "Dr. Last name" or by her first name AND her last name is unusual and difficult to figure out how to say. So I was afraid both if calling her the wrong thing OR totally butchering her last name.....

i've always called my T by his first name

I have never had cause to use the therapist's name. Since she is the only other person in the room, I am going to give her enough credit to think she realizes I am speaking to her.
If such occasion ever did arise where it was necessary, I would use the woman's first name. I would never allow them to use my first name while addressing them by title.

Mine uses sweetheart pretty often and dear on lesser occasions.

Will the bank cash it? That's the important question!

Text, darling, not cheque.

Oops! My bad!

Nope, definitely not. One time I think she called me by an abbreviated version of my first name but that was over the phone so I'm not even sure of that.

Wait, why don't you get to choose? Like if I have a student named Joseph, and he wants to be called Joey, that's his call.

I mean, I wouldn't go for a ridiculous name, like if he wanted to be called Iron Joey.

This was early in the relationship and I think he had his boundaries pretty tight then now 4 years later he seems to have relaxed a bit.