I'm sorry to hear you're not feeling safe in your therapist's office.
Any change like this can be potentially unsettling, particularly in therapy. I have somewhat of the same issue with my therapist's office that he moved into a year ago - this is the first office where there are also other people and I don't feel safe that they can see me come in and go out or that I can hear loud talking while discussing deeply personal things in therapy. I can actually make out the words sometimes and I'm afraid they can hear us too, even though my therapist always plays music in the waiting room so that they don't hear us. I feel especially exposed because a mutual colleague of mine and my therapist's also has her office there and it's not someone I know well and I certainly do not want her to know where and when I go to therapy. So you're not alone in being dissatisfied with the office space and feeling invaded in some way.
I wonder if you've tried to figure out what is bothering you the most, what your fears are specifically, and in what ways you feel exposed exactly. Do you feel like those people you are hearing are in your space? Are the strange voices a distraction? Do you worry they might hear you as well? I find it helps if I know what it is that I need and how that is frustrated exactly.
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