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Originally Posted by annielovesbacon
My T doesn't have a couch, just a comfy recliner-type chair. (I don't know if it reclines or not, but there's no room in the office to recline it anyway.) Most of the time I just sit in the chair "normally" and speak with her face to face. But sometimes when I am feeling especially awful I don't want to make eye contact so I will kind of slump over in the chair or pull my legs up or rest my head on the arm rest and stare at the floor.
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Funny you should mention that. I haven't ended up trying the couch at this point, but I do spend the vast majority of most sessions looking anywhere in the room besides my therapist. I've gotten to know his power outlets and filing cabinets pretty well!
And since the chair I sit in is also a recliner, with enough room to recline it at least partway, I've recently taken to kind of turning sideways in it and reclining the chair a bit, so that I'm either somewhere between sitting up and lying down, or am more curled up into myself.