Today's video session with Dr. T felt much better. I think something that helped me a lot was finding out how to hide the image of myself talking on the screen. It was making me really self-conscious such that I was mostly avoiding looking at the screen, so wasn't seeing T much. Once I covered that, I was looking at him much more. We joked around a little bit, so that helped, too. And I showed him a picture of my new guinea pigs. He was also just really empathetic about what I'm dealing with, in terms of D being home and really struggling with this. Which helped a lot.

So if anyone tries a video session and doesn't like it, I'd say give it another shot. Try hiding your image (I can tell you how to do that in Zoom, if that's what you're using). It's not the same as in person, not at all, but, for me at least, it's better than no therapy at all.