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Originally Posted by Squiggle328
Sometimes it helps not to look at your therapist. I have often thought about moving my chair to face the window. Looking out the window would be less frightening than looking my therapist in the face, or feeling her looking at me. I have often wished they had a screen that they could put up between the client and therapist. Only use this when the client needs to feel protected and wants to express something, but is too afraid to do it face to face.
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Oh, Squiggle, I can definitely vouch for this one....When I'm talking to T, I find that I'm rarely looking at him....But I still have trouble disclosing certain things even when I'm not looking at him. However, when I was sharing with T how I felt about his other clients - which was super, super hard for me - I had my eyes closed due to my intense migraine - and I realized then that it was SO much easier to say with my eyes closed. I may have to resort to that more often.