My T often sits in his "therapy chair", which is a swivel office chair with a backrest strapped to it. He is then quite mobile and can move closer or further to me as he needs to. Sometimes he comes quite close, like when he does "the move" and pulls really close and looks into my eyes to say something really important. But sometimes he will not use this chair and will sit on a couch across from the one I sit on. Then we are further away. At first, whenever he did this, I would really miss him, and wish he were closer. But one day when he arrived, he somewhat gleefully sat on the couch and stretched his legs out on it and said "ahhhh," like now he was comfy. I asked him if his back hurt. And he said no, just that he had been sitting in that chair (gestured at the swivel chair) and he needed to get out of it and unfold and stretch out (he is a tall guy). Then I thought, well, how nice he feels comfortable enough with me to get comfortable himself, and I took it as a complement to our closeness. So usually now, he sits on the couch for me (my appointments are near the end of his very long day). If we do EMDR, though, he always sits in his swivel chair pulled up really close to me. For couples therapy, my husband sat on the opposite couch where T would sit, and T sat in his swivel chair at right angles to us, equidistant from each. I think the whole seating dynamics thing is fascinating. I think if I came to T's office one day and he had rearranged all the furniture, I might not be able to handle it. It might take me 2 months or so to get used to it, lol. ("I don't feel safe here anymore because you changed the furniture," she said. )