My T's new office is closer to downtown and I HATE the traffic. It is also on the same road as a major hospital, and I am triggered by sirens if they pass. But T is also triggered so we sit together looking at eachother empathetically and wait for them to pass. Oddly, that makes me feel closer to my T emotionally.

He has a skinny hallway leading to his office (he shares it with others but it is only a two story building). I H A T E that hallway. He had offered to walk me out but never did it. He always has clients waiting. And his main office has a skinny waiting room hallway with three chairs and nice new-age music. You can hear the music when you first walk into the "hallway of doom" and that is good because it is like I know my T is close and if some monster jumped out at me, T would hear me and come to my rescue.

He has his office proper and also a larger room for his group sessions. His office has a couch that is too soft and reminds me of the couch my mom and dad had - so I don't like it. But when I have to deal with deep emotional stuff and sit on the floor so I can focus and not worry I am going to be eaten alive by that couch, my T ALWAYS joins me on the floor. I like that and those have been the very best sessions. I would do that all the time, but I want to save that space for my special sessions since it is so magical and sacred really.

What I hate is when another client is there right before me and I sit where they sat. One of my OCD things is I H A T E that body feeling of heat leftover. I think there is trauma around that sensation. All I know is I have to feel to make sure I sit on the other end of the couch - the cool part. I wonder if my T even knows what I am doing or ever wondered. He never asks. The couch holds more heat than the chair did in his old office and it tends to be surrounding residual heat rather than just on the seat.

He also has toys and a window behind me. It is westward facing though so the sun distracts us sometimes at the start of session until T fixes it. He is just learning the office since he moved into it in the fall. He will get that figured out because his own mild OCD issues won't let him ignor it. Hee hee. I like it that my T and I share enough issues that he really can get me and I think I can kinda understand him too
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Anyway, that is my T's office.