Sitting on floor

Do you ever sit on the floor during therapy?

With my previous therapist, I used to sit on the floor all the time - or on the Fatboy that she brought in after a few times. I'd sit with my back against the wall next to the table we were sitting at and continue talking from there. I'd always start on a chair, but if the subject was difficult or if I found things very confusing, I would move to the floor or the Fatboy.

Currently, with the therapists I have now, I sometimes move to the floor during a session or conversation if it's "too much". Sometimes I sit on the floor for a couple of minutes in silence and go back to the chair when I'm ready, sometimes I just continue talking from the floor.

I never ask permission, either. Sometimes I announce "I'm going to sit on the floor" and I just move my chair away and go sit where the chair used to be, or I just do it if I'm really stuck in my thoughts.

I like to sit on they floor (preferably in a corner) anyway - it feels way more secure than a chair or couch.

I think during therapy it's mostly about distancing myself from the therapist or the situation, and seeing things from a different perspective.

Do you ever sit on the floor during therapy? How does it help you?

I did with my last therapist. I just felt more safe because a solid wall was behind me and i could bring my legs up towards my body and that felt more protective. Something about making myself smaller maybe? My T provided me with a blanket too. That was awesome.

With this therapy, i sit at a huge desk because it's art therapy and that desk makes me feel safe because it's really big and heavy and it hide half of me and i can lean forward and put my head in my hands when i cry and it supports me.

Odd that this should be brought up. For the last couple of months, I have envisioned myself sitting on the floor but I do not know why. It seems strange for me to want to do this, so I have not. Yet the notion of sitting on the floor persists in my mind. May be I should go with my idea, or am I just being.....

I would not sit on the floor because I am old and it would hurt. Also it would be hard to escape from that position. I don't sit on the floor anywhere for the most part. I have stood next to the door before or stood behind the couch so there was more furniture between me and the therapist.

Sometimes I feel like I would love to sit on the floor and (especially) walk around, stand etc. but then I think that it would be weird so I always sit at the same place...

I don't necessarily want to sit on the floor (the office is a little too small for that), but I do have to fight the urge to pull my legs up and hug my knees (kind of like hiding), or hug a pillow, when I'm distressed.

most of the time, actually. t usually joins me

That actually sounds awful to me. Big part of sitting on the floor for me is to create distance while staying in the same room. The floor is my safe place, where I flee. Anyone who joins me would be intruding - and pursuing too far.

I once asked to sit on the floor... but I got the message she didn't want me to do that. We did sit on the floor a couple of times together, but only because there was a specific reason (ie she wanted me to work with some cards/toys) and she invited me to. I feel like I can only do these things with 'permission', still. I've read on here about people getting up, walking around, things like that.. I couldn't do that. I get there, sit down, and stay put until it's time to leave! We have started moving the chairs closer though, and in my last session they were more side by side than opposite, so that was nice. Sometimes 'opposite' feels oppositional, somehow.

It's strange this topic came up. I walked into my session a few days ago and told her I was going to sit on the floor, which I did. I took my boots off and sat with my knees pulled up and my back pressed against the wall and she sat on the sofa. A heavy session ensued, and it was the first time I came close to tears.

I chose the floor because I didn't want to contaminate her couch while disclosing something.

I've never sat on the floor in therapy, and at this point I'm too old and achy to even care to. The amount of popping and groaning involved and the dragging myself to a standing position just makes me wince.

I've never sat on the floor. I think I'd like it, but the way the room is situated would mean I'd be in closer proximity to my T and that sounds uncomfortable to me!

I would love to sit on the floor, but the office is too small.

Weird.
I asked the T if I could sit on his foot stool a few times. (Its a decorative like foot stool.)
I asked that because I had the urge sometimes to sit on the floor.
I ask him and told him I sit on the floor all the time at home. I even got a stand for my laptop so I can sit on the floor. Which is where I am sitting now. I guess its made so you can use it in your bed. Anyway...
I felt really awkward about asking if I could sit there as I felt being pulled a few times to wanting to sit on the floor. So I do sit on his foot stool. Which is maybe about 7 in. high I guess. Yea, I guess you can call that just about sitting on the floor.

Well glad I am not the only one. I don't think its weird... I do think its weird I actually found other with the same thing. So I don't feel weird anymore...

THANKS!

I sit on floor sometimes. I'm also likely to pace around or stand or sit in the corner. T always stays in his regular seat. He has never commented on my seating choices. I do sometimes observe that he seems annoyed when I pace, though. I never really thought about a pattern with my choices, but I have noticed it's easier to say certain things from certain positions in the room.

I'd like to sit on the floor- no where left to fall, it's a solid ground. But I feel weird putting that to T so I stay sitting, kinda freeze in the chair really.

I always sit on the floor, leaning against the wall. T does as well, leaning against the perpendicular wall. Sometimes we both stretch out our feet and there's the moment of minding that our feet don't touch. Odd but kind of reassuring, too.

I told him that I preferred the floor (his chair also is quite an uncomfortable contraption), but that he was welcome to stay on his chair if he wanted. He said he would not be comfortable being above me like that, and he was fine with the floor. He also said that he wants me to think of his office as my safe space, and if I feel like changing places, moving, or hiding behind a blanket, he wants me to do that.

Yes,I do tend to sit on the floor sometimes,I like it for some reason,even at home I always tend to be laying out on the floor. I curl up in my little corner in T room,with my special stuffed animal. I think for me it makes me feel a little bit more safe somehow.

Just last session T and I sat on the floor together opposite each other and played a game and we also colored for my inner child. It was so nice and meaningful

If CBT's office weren't so small with a yucky linoleum floor (room in a med clinic--not his main office) I love the idea. I'd rather he had a couch I could lie down on on my side.

We always sit on cushions on the floor.

I would like to sit on the floor with my T, but I would definitely feel like I needed permission. I have been sitting hunched over and looking into my lap for so long, that recently I asked permission just to sit back on the couch. And I think she would find sitting together to be breaking boundaries, so I would never have the guts to ask. Plus, there aren't many good spots to sit. But I can completely understand how others feel that it is protective.

I had an urge to sit on the floor in the first few months of therapy... Shared that thought with T and then traded chairs with him, since his chair was against a wall and mine was in front of a shelf. I never actually moved to the floor though - it just felt too awkward.

Instead, I am now taking my shoes off during therapy and put my feet up on my chair (e.g. to curl up) whenever I need to.

The blanket thing is so comforting! My T has offered a few times when the office was chilly, as I tend to shiver when I've been crying a while. One time I was so curled up and distressed on the couch and she gave me no option, she grabbed a blanket and said "here" and covered me with it. I absolutely love those moments in therapy.

Okay everyone, that's it. I am trying the floor next time. Especially if we are in the room that always feels like we are having a staring contest. I feel the least amount of comfort in that room, so maybe the floor thing could actually help.

I have sat on the floor several times. I told t ahead of time what I was going to do so it wouldn't take her by surprise. The room looked smaller from down there. And it did get uncomfortable after a while. I kept shifting. But it was somehow important for me to sit there on those occasions.