I certainly would not hesitate to ask him to sit closer. My T sits very close to me during EMDR. She uses her fingers (not a metronome or headphones, etc.). So, yeah, she is very close...her fingers are about a foot from my face then. It would be so weird to me for a T to do EMDR from ten feet away now, for sure. There is no table between us either. I'd say that when not doing EMDR, my T is usually about four feet away. She does sit closer than other Ts Ive had though.