Your therapist's most-commonly-used adjective to describe you is...

Just curious as to how varied their vocabulary is in (presumably positive, but not necessarily) descriptions of clients.

I get resilient a lot (boRING).

On the positive side, my T has said "competent." Which sounds negative, but she's more like, "You're so competent, why wouldn't you think you could handle x?" On the more negative side, "hypervigilant," like I notice little things that others wouldn't, mostly about other people (she seems to mean it in a negative way and reflective of my OCD and anxiety).

For marriage counselor, first one that popped into my head was "strong" as in, "You're stronger than you think you are."

He rarely describes me that I can remember. He has called me practical before, and agreed with me when I described myself as "non-demonstrative". When I told him my supervisor described me as "bright and talented" he replied "you are bright and talented".
He's much more likely to say something from his own feelings like "I'm proud of you" than actually use adjectives to describe me.

"Always the smartest person in the room."

I presume hes joking. But hey i cant stop him from saying it!!

Mine describes me as very philosophical.

Oh, I'm sure he's not joking...but he's probably leaving out "-mouthed" after "smartest."

Successful. She often points out that to her successful does nor mean having lots of money. In my case, I have overcome a lot to get whew I am today. I have a great marriage and children. I am well respected at my job and in my community.

Intelligent.

As far as I recall, she describes me as "strong," based on how much crap I've been through and yet have pushed through, coming out stronger on the other side.

Don't think she uses anything to describe me.

Former T never said anything.

Current T -- I was once just casually telling her that I've been too lazy to do some X thing and she just said "I don't think of you as lazy".

I had no response to that -- I mean, I'm not sure as to why it should matter to me as to what she thinks of me? I like her well enough but her opinion is kind of irrelevant because she has no basis for concluding anything about me other than what she sees in session i.e., I really can't lay store by anything she says unless she's basing it on what's happened in session (where clearly, my laziness or the lack thereof has little chance of manifesting).

I'm not sure then as to why Ts ever make such remarks. It's odd.

A word that roughly translates to wonderful. As in, she'll say "You're a wonderful person".

Creative and insightful - that's the good stuff.
Rejecting and hurtful - that's the bad stuff.

And she is right.

Thank you.

Intelligent. Beautiful. Strong. Amazing. A 'delight to be around" - that one confuses me. Oh, and also smart@ss

First T liked intelligent and feisty. Current T: independent, engaging (that's an interesting pair...), creative.

Intelligent and resourceful. From more than one of them. They have looked at my psych testing results so I assume that is where they get intelligent. I don't feel very intelligent when in their offices. I think resourceful is pretty accurate.

I can't really think of a time my T described me much. She compliments me on my clothing fairly often though, so maybe fashionable?

I tune all of that out, except for the negative, which she doesn't really say out loud...but I know it's there.

Remarkable, highly perceptive and intelligent. My T describes her impression of me usually when I need some validation. She's good at doing this at exactly the right time

Highly intelligent - a few times , and due to me having a silly sense of humour " Nuts ".

T1 used a lot of adjectives to describe me: highly intelligent, talented, remarkable, "like a butterfly - beautiful and alluring in flight" the list goes on. It didn't 'arf contribute to the transference. I'm glad current T usually keeps his opinions to himself.

My T doesn't say things like that either.

My psychiatrist-therapist doesn't say anything like that... and I hope he doesn't, it would be really weird for me.