My 1st two therapists worked out of their homes. I didn't like that. It distracts me too much. Gives me more stuff to think about that I don't want to think about!

My current T works out of a psychoanalytic center. Therapists rotate rooms depending on what is available. It really doesn't make a difference to me. I've been going there for two years so I am very familiar and comfortable in all the rooms.

I like this situation much better because as much as I'm beginning to not see T so much as a blank slate, I still prefer to see him in a blank slate-like setting. It's also just a cool environment because it's right here in the city (don't wanna have to drive out to the suburbs for therapy), and it's also a school that trains psychoanalysts.

I don't really care so much about feeling like I'm being put "out there" because it's more of a public environment. I even ran into one of my clients from my job in the waiting room once. It is nobody's business why I am there, I could be doing an internship for all they know.

The receptionist thing doesn't bother me at all. She doesn't even call T to let him know I'm there.... I used to be able to just go up to the room because we had the same one each week. Now that I've switched days we switch rooms from week to week so I wait for T to come down and get me.

Also, the receptionist does not deal with T's schedule. I only had to go through her when I was using the center's pdoc because she keeps his schedule... but all scheduling with T is done directly with him and does not involve a receptionist.