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

Do you adjust pillows or move furniture or light candles or touch stuff on the therapist's coffee table or bookcase or any thing of that sort at the therapist's office? Would you do so?

For me, it would not be appropriate and would imply a level of familiarity with the woman I do not have. I sit in the middle of the woman's truly awful couch (unless I take in my own chair), and do not move the pillows or adjust the clock on her table if it is skewed so I cannot see it - I take out my own watch and put it on my knee so I can see it and so forth. I carry a handkerchief on the off case that I ever cried (I have not done so in 5 years so I don't really expect to do so, just I don't want to be in a position to need the woman's kleenex). I would never think to touch anything on her coffee table or light a candle she had in her office or anything like that. So I wondered how usual it was that people did so.

I adjust a pillow for my back and move the kleenex if it's not close to me.

i play with his toys

I remove pillows because there are too many and I feel squeezed/attacked by them. Other than the pillows (and tissues), I don't touch anything.

I do have a familiarity with the woman I see. We have a close therapeutic relationship. I move the pillows if I want, I pick up items she has to play with, and last week I was cold so she asked if I wanted the blanket that's on the couch. I did.

Except for the toys and pillows, I would ask if I can touch something first. After all, they are hers, even the things I gave her that are sitting out.

I might would adjust pillows if they were bothering me comfort-wise, but otherwise I would leave someone else's office things alone.

No, I would not. There is an object on the table between us, a piece of art that I'm very curious about what it looks like from the other side, but I would never move it in order to see.

Though once, when another object on the table had been moved to the table edge, and I got paranoid about accidentally making it fall off, I asked T if I might move it just slightly.

There are not a lot of things I could move around or touch, not without wandering around the office, and that would be both pointless and rude.

There's nothing like pillows or candles in her office... dang bare clinic room. Bare floor.

Even the two patients' chairs are plastic near the desk (across and beside the desk). Sometimes I adjust the chair I pick.

The room isn't even hers, ugh...she and at least one therapist-colleague shares the same room on different days.

I wouldn't move anything, though I often wish she would put the stupid tissue box near me instead of far away...past her body (why not on my side of her body?!) at the other end of the L shaped desk.

I move pillows around, and I would touch the table in front of me. Once in awhile I've adjusted the lights, though he usually scurries to take care of that. I've also adjusted the curtains. I feel pretty at home in his office and it has never occurred to me that I shouldn't touch anything, but there's not much I would have any reason to touch anyway. I wouldn't go near anything besides my seat.

I immediately move the pillows around so I can sit in my "spot," and also take one to go on my lap.

I do fiddle with the odds and ends that are on the table next to me, and because it isn't her office (she shares it with another T), I don't pick up all the other awesome and fascinating stuff she has. The other T has a whole basket of tiny stuffed animals that I stare at longinly because i find comfort in stuffed animals...but the pillow will do!

I think the only thing I've ever touched is the door--to open or close it. I've always asked, first.

sure i touch everything

i am a very tactile person as well...it is a compulsion i can't stop!

I hold a pillow sometimes. I reach for tissues. Once I held a glass of water he gave me. I don't touch anything else.

No. 3 has two places to sit - a couch and a chair. Chair is more comfortable, so I sit there. But the chair has an extra pillow for back support, which makes me uncomfortable, so I pick up the pillow and put it on the couch. I put it back in place at the end of the session.

Other than that...no. I don't want my fingerprints on anything in that room.

Mt therapist has toys, stones, puzzles, and stuff all over her desk

I always remove the middle black pillow and put it on my lap before we start.


The only other thing I touch is Kleenex.


One morning I was very put off when my black pillow wasn't in its spot, T apologized and explained, then we laughed because finally it dawned on me how habitual I am about that specific black pillow each week, I never want the red or the green.

My T shares a room with other people so there isn't much in there other than some furniture, a clock, and wall decorations. Sometimes I'll move the pillows so that I'm more comfortable but generally I just sit down and make a slight adjustment if needed.

I don't touch anything except the couch where I sit and sometimes I rearrange the pillows if they are in the way. Or if the T offers something to look at together. I am very sensitive to intrusion and would find my touching things in the T's room without a reason intrusive, also don't feel motivated to do so. I am usually very fixated on him and our interactions rather than things around.

i adjust the pillows on the couch other than that, I don't touch anything

I have adjusted or moved a pillow on the couch. I haven't bothered with anything else. I would never light a candle, but there are other things I might do. There are some things I'd be comfortable doing, but plenty of things I'd not feel comfortable doing.

I move the cushions if they're uncomfortable and he provides some water which I occasionally drink. He has a fiddly toy which he fiddles with and I once asked for a go out of curiosity. And he leant me a book once.

I feel pretty comfortable moving and touching anything that's not on her bookshelf. She has a small table that has toys and things to fiddle around with, so I use them sometimes. She also had a table next to her, and I would ask before touching anything there because that is *her* table (in my mind).

I've gotten up and used a blanket twice, but I asked the first time. Oh, and I do touch the filing cabinet next to me, all the time, I don't know why.

I know all of this is okay because she shares her office with someone who sees children and families. And because she encouraged me to use the toys, to ground myself in something tactile.

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I adjust pillows for comfort. I sometimes hold a teddy bear. Move the kleenex box closer sometimes. I will grab a coaster for my coffee at t1. That's about it.

I don't really touch anything in T's office. She shares the office with other T's so there's not much in the way of things to play with anyway. Even if the cushion that is on the chair is annoying me I won't adjust it. For some reason I feel like once I've committed to sitting down that's it haha. I don't touch anything in the waiting room either; there are magazines and a water cooler but I have never used either of them.