Posted by fallsfall on September 24, 2004, at 6:34:38
In reply to Re: Time to decorate therapy office--ideas?, posted by daisym on September 24, 2004, at 1:08:21
Make sure that you have a wastebasket in reach, so that if your client is having a crying day they don't have to hold on to those dirty Kleenex. Of course, have Kleenex within reach.
Oh, and have a pen lying around if you collect the fees personally. Usually I have a pen in my pocketbook and make the check out in the waiting room, but on occasion I forget my pen and I prefer not having to ask him to borrow his pen (because I'm already feeling stupid for not having a stupid pen).
My therapist always has fresh flowers. Since I go 3 times a week, I watch them fade and be replaced. Sometimes he gets lazy and doesn't get new ones when he should, but I never say anything. I guess the flowers are something that always stays the same (there are always some flowers there), but also change. In the same way that his clothes change. It is nice to have everything "the same", but to have surprises, too (but not major surprises... oh, no, can't have major surprises). He used to have fresh flowers in his waiting room, too, but now he has a (very nice) silk arrangement - I think he got lazy...
I agree about the books, I like to see what my therapist is reading.
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