Hi Hopeful,

Yes, my T uses one too and I really like it.

My first T had a noise maker..my current T's office has music playing in reception. The whole office is fairly small so the music can still be soft but cover discernible sounds, although you can still hear enough to tell if someone's in the room. I'm glad your T uses one!

Yup. My T has one right inside her office door, and one right outside, too. There is one outside the door of each of the offices. It made me feel particularly comfortable knowing that the noise machines are there because they were specifically put there for the privacy of the clients.

My T does not use a noise machine, but the lobby does play music. I've never ever heard another patient - you can hear muffled sound but that's about it. I believe her and her office partner had significant building codes or something, she's mentioned something like that before. I feel safe there.

My other T has a room that is dangerously close to reception she does use a noisemaker, but I've heard it doesn't work. My T doesn't seem to be concerned about it, which has really bothered me.

New T does not have one. There are two seperate office's in her "office" but I have never seen someone in the other one so I think its just her maybe?
Old T did not have one and I could often hear muffled conversations in the next room and wondered if other's had ever heard me, especially during an emotoinal breakdown or something
My Pdoc has one in his waiting area. It's a "sleep aide" machine and makes a white noise sound and it's very soothing. I actually wish T had one...I wouldn't mind hearing that during session. It calms me

I went to a T today for testing. I asked him if he had a noise maker because I could hear everything his client was saying...he said something about the walls being thick and sometimes that's just the way it goes...good thing I won't be saying things like that client was talking about...I wouldn't even let myself with no privacy or I'll sit in a seat farthest from the thin office door. I went out in the main hallway so I could stop hearing that clients stuff. It's temporary for me and no counseling involved just information gathering. My T's reception area is far more adequate than this one I went to today. I'm glad my T thinks of everything!

Catalyst, I hope yours gets a replacement for her broken one.

Thanks for all your responses everyone.

I'd be running from that one too hopeful. There was one time that one of the machines must have been broken or something cause I could hear nearly every word of the conversation happening inside the office. First thing I did was tell T about it, and immediately T checked the sound machines, found the one that needed replacing, and by the time I returned for my next session, it was fixed!

R2G,
Good responsible T's we both have. I see mine in two hours...yeah! Sometimes seeing a different one if even only for testing in my case makes us appreciate ours more. She always deserved it but I didn't always know that.

Hopeful