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Old Mar 18, 2019, 06:40 AM
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Originally Posted by Elio View Post
My T is in the process of changing offices and redecorating with all new furniture. I wasn't thrilled with the current room - this is our 5th relocation since I started working with her. 3 of them were with old clinic. There, one room was home and I miss the filing cabinet and able to look out the window. Another room was doable and I was able to adjust it to have an enclosed secure space. I miss that a lot. The other room was really bad. The move to private practice has more negativity based on all I lost and what little I feel like I gained. The room itself is not horrible and we've done a lot here. However, I rarely felt like I had a space of safety. On Thursday, I saw the new space with the majority of the furniture in it. I hate the new furniture and the lay out. I completely feel unsafe by the arrangement and am dreading the move. For now, she still has a lot of openness because of being between spaces, not everything moved up. I'm still allowed to use the current space. However, she's made it clear that I'm pretty much the only one still using the current space. Once she finally says it's time, I'm planning on not using her existing arrangement if I can let myself do what my heart wants to do. Then again, I know I'm setting myself up for eventual pains when I am redirected to her arrangement.

I really don't know what I'm going to do.
I suggest you ask your T if you can take photos of the current office. You can also ask if you can take a photo of your T in the current space. My T has had 3 offices in the time I have been seeing her. The first one was small and I barely remember it. The second is the one I associate the most with, because we spent the most time in it. Now we are in the third one. It's smaller than her second one, and she shares it with another therapist. And that therapist brought in her own bookcase, the style of which I don't like. In this office, T and I sit closer to each other. And T has most of the art tthat was also in her second office, so I can look at it when I don't want to look at her.
I really suggest you ask if you can take photos of the current with your T in it. These photos have also helped me when T is away.
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