I love your ideas, ThisWayOut!

I wish there was someplace "spa-like" where you could schedule a vacation (pre-planned trip, you can leave when you want, not necessarily counted as "medical") to do healing work.

It would be peaceful, serene, with lots of other activities that can be tied back to healing: hiking, writing, art, music. Nothing would be forced (no forced medication), but there would be alot of support available from trained, compassionate, caring people with tons of expertise. You'd have individual T twice a day between hiking and massages and painting classes. As you said, you'd be able to bring the things you need, and still have contact with anyone you wanted to. And the food would be *fabulous* whole foods based, cooked from scratch by chefs, and very healthy and tasty.

On a more realistic note, one funny thing that I've often thought would absolutely make me LOVE my therapist (or any therapist) would be if they'd bring in a therapy dog. It would have to be big, fluffy, well-trained and smart enough to stay away if someone doesn't want doggy-time. But I imagine walking in to therapy to find a big happy golden retriever who sits by me on the couch and lets me bury my face in his fur... I think I'd be so completely crazy with joy and disbelief, that all my doubts about therapy would instantly go "whoosh" out the window.