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Originally Posted by Mountaindewed
Sort of a werid question, but are we able to do a session somewhere outside of the office like at a Mcdonalds so you can help me get over my phobia of eating out in public? Idk how you'd react if I asked you that tommorow. I know last session I told you I really wanted to eat out but it freaked me out too much. And my mom and I got into an argument this morning over going out for dinner. Our argument was pretty heated too.
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Hope it's OK to respond to this. When I first started seeing ex-T, I had a phobia of eating in public. She said at some point, we could have considered having a meal outside the office to work on that. I think she said she'd done that with another client before? We never ended up doing that, but just mentioning that it is something that at least some therapists would do.
As an intermediate step, have you eaten in front of your T before? If not, that could also be something to potentially try. Or if she wasn't comfortable eating in a restaurant, maybe you could get takeout and, say, sit on a park bench or some other location where people could be walking by so that it's someplace public.