I went to my second session of therapy with the new T. She started off saying she would drop the things I didn’t want to do (like the woo-woo headband) and went straight into intake and prework for EMDR.

I thought this went well, and I liked her professionalism (I felt my last T was trying too hard to give empathy and it came off as fake and was distracting).

Anyway, she wants me to come up with a calm place to visualize for use in therapy sessions. I don’t know what that would be. I have chronic anxiety, so I always have this undercurrent of uneasiness.

Do you have any ideas? Do you do this in your mind?

What is your calm place?