Explore with who? are you unhappy with your present therapy environment? if so maybe by talking with your therapist the two of you can fix your therapy sessions so that you can be more comfortable.

What each person considers a bad therapy environment depends on what each person individually needs for their own healing work with their therapist.

Some would not consider what you descibed as a bad environmoent if they need a structured and formal environment, others need less formal environments for their therapy process.

So my telling you what I feel comfortable with would not help you in deciding what you are comfortable with ... unless of course this is a research student type question not one coming from your own therapy process. and in that situation again all I can say is that each person must decide for themselves and remind you that the guidelines here state that research on members is not welcome.

If this is from your own therapy process all I can say is what I am comfortable with wont help you in what you need. for that only you and your therapist knows what will make you comfortable so talk with your therapist and the two of you can explore and try a variety of things until you find something that you are comfortable with.

Good luck.