I think it's fine to just ask. I'm fortunate in that L works from her home office anyway, so when we were doing zoom sessions she would just be in the same office. I think that t's should know that consistency is a big part of the whole therapy thing. And this pandemic has taken away a lot of that consistency. When L changes anything it throws me off! Like almost every time i've seen her her hair has been curly. then all of a sudden one day (this was pre-pandemic, so awhile ago) she had straightened it. and she looked so much like someone from my past in my mind the person i was sitting across from kept changing from her to the other person then back to her etc and I could NOT focus at all on anything in that session.