Do you move stuff or touch things at the therapist's office?

I don't touch anything in the office except the pillow I move that's in my seat. Nothing in the office is my T's. She shares an office with another T and everything in there is hers.

If her dog is there, I do play with her a bit. I find the dog very relaxing.

Other than that, I don't normally touch anything. However, a few months ago I had severe arm/shoulder pain. So I would adjust one of her pillows in order to rest my arm on it. I hadn't moved the pillow but she could see how much pain I was in so she suggested it so I tried it. Also, there have been a few times she has offered me an ice pack because of the pain. The first couple of times I declined not wanting to inconvenience her. One day though the pain was unbearable so I accepted the ice pack it made a huge difference. So I used the ice pack a few times. Then my arm started to feel better so I didn't need it. Recently the pain started again. She told me any time I need the ice pack I am welcome to use it. She knows I have a high tolerance for pain so if she can see I am in pain then the session would not be very therapeutic. If need be I will ask her for it..although, I also sometimes bring my own ice if I go home from work before my appointment.

Same with my T, yet I've touched and played with a few things that are on the table right next to me. I can't help it! Once there was a Gumby there, and that cracked me up. Haven't thought of Gumby since I was young.

i am impressed your T has an ice pack in her office!

I think it's strange and don't know why, but I won't use my T's kleenex either. I think it drives her nuts. "What do you have against tissues?" She'll say. The only thing I may do in her office....if I feel fidgety, is I will pick dead leaves off of her plant that sits right next to me. She thinks it's funny. I'm not laughing.

I adjust the pillow on the sofa but otherwise I touch nothing else.

Hell no. T and I just talked about this. Another client's parent rearranged the waiting room. I was stunned that someone would be so presumptuous. I can't imagine ever touching someone else's possessions like that.

I move pillows to make myself more comfortable. I've asked to adjust a picture she had on the wall that was crooked bc it was driving me nuts. I've taken candy from her candy dish when she offered, and then another time I asked if she'd mind if I had a piece. I've used a throw to cover my legs when it was cold, but she has it out on the arm of the sofa for anyone to use. I don't go around her office touching things, but I'd also not feel uncomfortable asking to see something or touch something if I was curious.

I move her chair to where I like it.
I move the pillows that are in my spot.
I open or close the blinds depending on how much light I want in the room.
I play with some stuffies she has sometimes.
I use her blanket on occasion.
I touch the Kleenexes.
I use a stress ball she has sometimes.
I sometimes touch her hand.
I organized a shelf the other day.

I do a lot of touching and moving of things.

I always move the pillows, if the cushions on the sofa have scooted out I push them back in, if I have brought in a fidget toy and want to leave it there for next time I even open the drawer where I want it to be and put it in there. I haven't thought too much about this but now I am thinking maybe I am touching too much! Yikes

She has a home office.

I used to move the pillow that was on the chair I sit at to hold onto to help ground myself. I have used tissues when I was crying. I would not touch anything else without asking her first. She handed me a book one time to read something she wanted to show me and I felt bad for holding her book.

I am ok with people touching stuff in my office. I bet your t is fine with it.

Today I practically threw my pillow at my T. Woops. Well I launched it towards her, though it landed on the floor beside her. Anger and disgust could not be handled by me, hence the pillow flying. She laughed, but seemed unperturbed.

I have adjusted pillows where I sit and once I used a tissue.

I have adjusted the pillows, used the tissues, used the hand lotion, poured myself water, and once turned off her space heater. Anything more, and I would ask first. Even these things, I think I asked the first time.

T has a special blanket that only I use that he stores in the drawer of his end table. I touch that. I also look at books on his bookshelf examine his pictures.

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Not usually. There's a pillow in the chair I sit in that I'll move to my lap to put my arms around sometimes, but that's about it.

No I wouldn't touch anything, other than a Kleenex.
(I did sit on the floor once though.)

With my other T we sat in chairs across from eachother and there was a small table between us at the side. I often traced the corner of that table with my fingers.

With current replacement T there is a desk between us. I sometimes trace the corner or the lines of the wood.

I don't touch other stuff because it isn't mine. I sometimes feel the urge to put stuff straight and to look in the books on the shelf. But I haven't done that.

- I remove, or have my T remove, any orange chairs in the room to lessen the influence of the Thought Police.
- I did throw a Kleenex box once. At the floor, not at T.

I might move a couch pillow if it's in the way, but other than that, I would say no.

I'm a germaphobe in general. I like to reduce my exposure to germs

No, I rearrange the cushions on my chair but that's it. I would feel impolite, especially as it is Ts home.
I have never taken a tissue, even though they are right next to me. I often really want to get my water which T puts out for me right next to me but I can't move for some reason
Maybe I should tell T that.

I always move the pillow on the corner of the sofa so I can sit right next to the arm rest. In the waiting room of one of her previous offices, I rearranged the bookshelf, it didn't have books on it, just some ceramic vases, and the way the shelves were spaced and the vases placed made no sense, so clearly I had to do something. In her last office I swapped the position of two pictures on the bookcase because one was taller than the other and by swapping their places it covered up an unpainted spot on the wall where a thermostat used to be.

I have always wondered if she figured out it was me who did these dastardly deeds. When she moved to her current office I moved the small toy Smurf that I had placed in her waiting room to her new office. I had to confess to this crime when I put it in her office, there wasn't a good spot in the shared waiting room for him to occupy. She commented that she and her coworkers (only a couple) always wondered who put the Smurf there. I didn't let on but I was more than a bit hurt that she wouldn't automatically assume it was me, clearly she doesn't know me as well as I thought she did.