Do you consider the therapist's office a safe or good place to be?

Do you consider the therapist's office a refuge or good or safe place to be?

Yea. I know what I say is confidential (unless it's harmful to myself or others to keep it so. Ie self harm, homicidal or suicidal thoughts, etc)
And it's nice to get a load of crap off my chest.

Yes, her office is like a little oasis in the middle of a crazy-go-nuts world...

Oh, man, a poll with the Roman death penalty for parricides in it! I'd do a love emoji here but won't to spare the OP.

I would have picked it anyway. It is not a safe place for me. They try to make it so, and it probably would be for most people. It is a very dangerous place, but it's the danger that seems to help me.

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Definitely yes. .... it is the only place I have felt even a few minutes of 'safe' in the 40 years I remember. .. and even when the time in that office is hard and horrible, it's still better then anything outside....

for me it depends on the space my head is in . sometimes it can be triggering and other times it feels ok never a refuge at all or anything like that . i have a huge hard time sitting in the chair she has sometimes and that is triggering

I dont mean to complain about the poll, but i would really have liked a choice about taking a bus to be sewn into a sack etc

I find safety and comfort in people, not in places necessarily.

Yes, safe place.

No. There are things going on right outside her door all the time, often the next client who gets there incredibly early. It's a tiny waiting area, so it's pretty much like having them in the room with me. There was a wonderful respite of a few weeks when no one was out there, but that has ended. It does not feel anything like the way others describe here.

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I answered no not really. While I find T safe I do not necessarily find the space safe. I find safety in people not a physical place.

Safest place for me. Even though I know I have difficult crap to sort through, uncomfortable subjects to discuss, and, risk coming out of a session feeling hellaciously miserable, I feel completely safe during those 90 minutes of the week. That's a really good place for me as I have never felt such safety anywhere else.

It is safe - a refuge. I can say anything and trust that my therapist will act in my best interest. She nudges me to get me to see things in a different light but if the world is crashing down around me, she is my greatest source of support. Its sort of sad really. I have a great marriage but i still seek out her support first - ahead of my spouse who doesn't really understand my mood even though he tries!

Yes, it is a safe and secure place for me. Thinking of his offices , he had just opened his practice about 6 months before I started. After about 8 months, he moved to a bigger office in the same large building, and I liked it better than the old one. He painted it, got better chairs and it was cozier feeling. Then, about 8 months after THAT, the building he was in was going to be torn down completely. Sooo.. he had to move again. Thankfully, i hadn't ever been that terribly attached to his office, so it didn't really bug me. I just asked him to please bring the same comfy chairs to the new place. He started in his new office last month, and the moment I walked in, it just had a completely different effect on me. It is so cozy and soothing. The wall color is a very calming shade of blue and it just feels very inviting. I told him after the first session that it had a different vibe to it and I liked it a lot. He agreed and said it finally felt like home to him.

I seem to be strongly affected by things like lighting and furniture arrangement in my surroundings. It took me a while to realize that fluorescent lights caused me a lot of physical tension and anxiety. If it's too quiet, I can hear the buzzing of the lights, etc. Soft lighting REALLY helps me maintain calmness and focus, especially at work. I am lucky that I have my own little space at work where I have lamps only and no overhead lighting. At home, I have a stockpile of the old soft-white light bulbs. I'm all about helping to conserve energy, but the new spiral bulbs are painful to me.

So, that was a really long-winded way to say that T's office is cozy and safe and secure, and I like it and feel safe enough to do some REALLY deep and intense work.

The only place I feel safe

I wanted to vote no because the description was too awesome

It is not unsafe but rather ugly office. I love to decorate and wish I can redo her office. It's not welcoming

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No I never felt that way about any T

Maybe mine would be like being sewn up in a bag full of ferrets. Not as dangerous as vipers but squirmy and unsettling at times

Yes, my T's office is the safest place. I wish I could spend more of my tough moments there. Over the holidays (a very difficult time for me) I told my T I felt like I could get through the holidays if I could spend them in her office. She didn't even have to be there but it would be better if she was. I love having that one hour in the safest place I know. I feel like the room can keep me safe.

I am really surprised at how many people say they don't feel safe in there T's office.

I don't know... It's T's presence that's safe to me, not the space. When I was first seeing him it was in a place that I felt very unsafe in. He felt like a rescuer and protector to me. I remember panicking and asking for him over my own T (previous T) when I hardly knew him at all (after one couples' session)... Something about him screams 'SAFE' to me... His current office (and previous one) are neutral to me.

T is polite and accommodating--a safe person--and so his interrogation room of an office feels comfortable enough. Not really comforting, but comfortable. I used to wish he had one of those TV therapist's offices with woodwork and comfy chairs, but now I'm glad he doesn't. I think too comfortable a setting would stir all sorts of feelings in me that are really best left for my 'real' life, not for that odd reality-suspended thing that is the therapy hour.

After reading replies, I would have to either include or adjust my "absolute yes' answer to include that it is T's presents that MAKES the space safe. I am not AS safe feeling the couple of times we have worked outside of the office, but MUCH safer with him just there even in open public. Still, if I could sleep in his office with nobody there, I know I would sleep better then I do in my own home. So that answer is still yes, but DUE to T... not the space itself.