What kind of voice do you use with your T?

I use a very distinct tone of voice with my T. I talk very similarly to how I talk with my parents. Just wondering whether others also talk in a certain 'special' way with their T.

I went for 'people in a professional environment', because that felt most true. We have noticed that I am less fluent when I am talking about hard stuff.

Interesting question. I talk in a very distinct way and I don't think I talk to anyone else like it. I often talk quite coyly and childlike. Not always but often.

It depends who/which part is talking. I change my words, tone, body posture, pro nouns for the different parts. If it wasn't me in the hot seat it would be fascinating I think to observe.

It very much depends on the subject. Mix of professional, friend, and like a child talking to a parental figure (but not the way I talk to my actual parents. With them I'm an adult talking to an adult. Even as a kid I wasn't this same type of childishly vulnerable and looking for reassurance from my parents)

If it's about my work or practical matters, it's more professional. If I'm talking about my issues in like a more emotionally detached way it's the same half joking/self deprecating tone I take with friends. When we get to something I'm vulnerable about that's when I'm childish.
Sometimes there's also like a petulant child feel to it if I'm upset and hurt. But that's also something I never really used with my own parents because it's childish and immature and not constructive.

I talk to her as I would anyone else. The first time I dropped the F bomb I was kind of horrified, but she laughed.

I said “like a friend,” but that’s not quite it, just the closest thing. I guess I talk to him like I would if I was 100% myself with them, because I often put on a bit of a facade even with my closest friend.

None of the answers quite fit, but I answered the last one, meaning, I don't particularly change the way I speak to my therapist from the way I speak to anyone else: I use the tone, inflection, and voice register appropriate to the situation. There are, perhaps, subtle adjustments, but not markedly so. I didn't say "in a professional way" because that felt too formal, stilted, and CYA to me. I'm probably least "natural" when dealing with someone professionally like an administrator, lawyer, accountant, etc. Friend is not right at all; the therapist is not my friend. Certainly not parent, etc.

It depends how stressed I am, what my mood is like, what we’re talking about...it varies a lot.

Like talking to a friend except I'm more open with my T than with my friends.

i think i talk slower in therapy than in real life.

Probably like someone in a professional environment, although I do swear a lot sometimes. It's more of how relaxed I feel, I notice my body language, sit up straight, cross my legs etc. I have even mentioned it on here a few times I believe.

I'm in online therapy but I often imagine speaking in a child like tone.
I've also read that people with cptsd or childhood trauma sometimes have child sounding weak voices. I definitely have that. My voice is more like a 10-12 years old girl than an adult woman. Maybe it's because I'm short, I don't know.

I usually speak in a high and "soft" way. Recently I've recorded myself singing and it sounds like my throat is tense and constricted.
I listened to a lady explaining singing technique and she said that people talk with their throats open and only tense them for singing. I didn't understand the concept of free and open throat... I had to practice for 3 days and I noticed my normal talking voice is richer and more "adult" today.

I guess this came from childhood anxiety and always trying to be quiet and invisible. I didn't even realize I had this weakness in my voice.
Today I'm a little positively surprised by the "richness" of my relaxed vocal cords. My tone is still high but a little stronger. I hope I'll be able to keep this openess and gain even more strength and confidence.

I'm sorry this was off topic but I had to share.

Professional for sure. I know because when he makes me mad I don't fight back like I would with my parents. I threaten to terminate the relationship, which to me indicates something professional - similar to any service industry. If I don't like the service, I terminate it, I don't waste time arguing. I'm not saying my way is right, but it it what it is for now.

I think it depends. Sometimes like friend, sometimes significant other, sometimes parents, sometimes...something else that I'm not sure how to explain. I've never been to a confessional, but I imagine it's how I'd talk in there at times.

I put my parents because when I talk to my T, I usually end up talking to her in a little girl voice even though I'm an adult, dang-it! But for some reason, I get kinda regressed in T usually. Kit.

I can talk to him like a friend at times but that is not the reason I am there. He is my therapist and I need to be dealing with issues. When we do address issues there is a high chance that one of my splits will come out. He has talked to them before and it's hard. Vocal changes etc. Not fun at all.

I’m with you exactly on that one, it totally depends on how I am feeling/what we are talking about when I talk with T. With certain things, especially when I feel like I did something wrong, it’s a parent/child type talk, because she usually walks me through consequences of my behavior, etc.. I also go into petulant child mode fairly often when I don’t like things she’s saying. You could even say I get whiny. I’ve been called out by a previous T for that behavior before and how it’d not an effective way to communicate my needs. Then there’s the vulnerable child me, and that’s a different form of child, one that doesn’t really like to speak at all and has her own body language, in that I physically make myself smaller and close up. There’s normal adult me, too, who is present when we’re laughing or joking around, or just having a light-heart we’d conversation, talking about my school, her telling me some things about herself, etc..

So I put “like a friend” as my answer, but really “like a parent” works, mostly, I just didn’t put that, because I act nothing like that with my real mother. I guess you could say I speak to her like the caring, well-functioning parent that I have always wished I had...

With my long-time therapist I tended to be friendly but quicker on my feet and more articulate--sort of like when I'm talking in a seminar but less formal and more humorous. Except for the sad times of course. With this one I talk to her pretty much like friends. I would be curious to know how people talk to their "enemies".

I couldn't vote because I couldn't pick one. I have DID and switch multiple times per session so... yeah. Sometimes the voice that comes out is really startling even to me.
My T got me to audio record my sessions a while back so I could learn more about the others and that was REALLY startling! I don't do it anymore because it is too weird.

He’s pointed out that I sometimes use child like words. I think I speak to him as if to a teacher or parent.

Once I think my tone was flirty which threw me off because I didn’t realise I was doing it until later. Not flirty in a suggestive way...flirty ina playful, teasing sort of way.