Yes! I take them off outside the therapy room actually and then shut the actual therapy office door -- which means she opens the main door and goes before me into her room rather than the other way around as apparently she does with other clients (took her some getting used to).

I didn't do it earlier but after a while, I decided I wanted to sit on the floor rather than the couch. And, then a little while later, I progressed to wanting to chuck shoes.

I think shoes are the bane of the world -- they constrict thinking, happiness, you name it. I drive without shoes. In my former job, I'd work and walk around without shoes etc. In restaurants / coffee shops, if I'm sitting down, shoes are off pretty much immediately. Just about any place I can get away with not having shoes, I'll totally do it.

(And yes, in my mind, there's a paranoid part screaming "Oh gawd, what if this place is swarming with Hep C" etc. In therapy, I told her that I was concerned there were flesh-eating bacteria in the place I sat because all other clients would be sitting on the couch and placing their feet on the part of the floor where I sat -- she insisted there weren't such bacteria [not sure how she knew], then told me about the cleaning schedule and that most clients apparently sit on the side of the couch that is very close to her and not where I sit.....so, yay?!).

Shoe-less = freedom.