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Originally Posted by SheHulk07
Thank you. I looked up your thread and read everything. I feel like your feelings about the couch and your therapist suggesting it are similar to mine. My T brought it up again on Monday and I'm doing 2x weekly sessions with him as well. I told him once I stick to a routine it's hard for me to break. Ive sat in the same seat for over a year at marriage therapy until we got a new T. I see my T tomorrow and I told him I'd like to try it but don't know when. Like do I just walk in and decide to sit there instead of my usual. Talk about it first in the chair then move to the couch.
My anxiety is wayy too high about something that should be easy to decide.
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Yes, I've wondered similar things about the logistics of trying it. Like if I said I wanted to, would I just go lie down right away, or would he want me to wait until next time? Would it depend on if it was after a certain point in the session? Would he stay sitting in the same spot if I switched mid-session or would he move over to the chair behind the couch? On the one hand I think the logistical concerns make sense in a straightforward way, on the other hand I suspect mine are mostly really about fear of vulnerability and how using the couch relates to that. Not that I've said it so directly to my therapist yet, of course
In my case we very recently started down a rather new and different road of focusing intensely on some traumatic events that I haven't spoken about before, and that's left me even more conflicted about the couch. I wonder if it might help me open up more, but I also worry that it would lead to more regression than I can handle, or bring up more than I can focus on right now. But we'll see.