The therapist's office as place you want to be?

I said it is like my fortress of strength and comfort. I didn’t always feel that way at the time but now that I have finished and I look back on it that’s how I feel for the most part.

I chose "No" because my last therapist's office was ******: a small dark room with an uncomfortable chair. It was like everything was humid and old (actually there was even a water leak at some point in the corridor!). Seriously not welcoming at all. Don't understand why she didn't pay more attention to the space she was occupying with her clients, that seems like basic psychology 101. On the other hand, I LOVED my ex therapist's office. It was a small cozy room in her house, on the ground floor. I loved the way she furnished it, it had a very nice comfy white sofa, windows that opened on her garden where I could hear the birds sing during spring and summer when she would let the windows open. I would always feel very at ease and relaxed whenever I entered the room even when I was tense going in (which was often). Her house was located in a dead-end street, behind a gate, among 20 other houses. Very fancy. It's actually the only thing I miss about my ex therapist: her therapy room and her neighbourhood.

My T has two offices and I prefer one over the other. The first one I went to was very home-y. It was in this quaint little office building, lots of natural light, a plush couch, carpet, etc. The second office is in a building that is technically an off-shoot of a hospital. It seems like he hired an interior decorator for that one or it came as it was. The hospital is affiliated with a university so all of the furniture is in the university colors. It has wood floors and one window, but the blinds are constantly shut because it's on the first floor and overlooks the parking lot. The couch is shiny leather (the type of looks almost like its plastic) and it's not comfortable at all. I would like to live in the first one.

T doesn't have an office of her own. There's different rooms that all look the same and someone at the reception desk just assigns an office number when the appointment is booked.

Pdoc recently got a new office - first floor instead of ground floor, same building and furniture (arranged slightly differently of course), and this is a private office rather than a shared one. Not that the sharing thing meant much - it's happened only about 3 times in the 4 years I've been seeing him that we sat in the small conference room opposite that office because his colleague was in the office. She's never there.
He did have a "phase" where he liked to use the conference room instead of the office but I don't think that had anything to do with someone else being in the office.
I do hate the size of the elevator - it's a bit small. Large enough for 2 people such as family or friends to stand together in, but not quite large enough to stand in together with your T or pdoc or similar. So usually I take the elevator and he takes the stairs, but that always makes me feel awkward because it makes me feel inadequate. The normal people take the stairs and I take the elevator. Pdoc (in my mind, I highly doubt it's actually true) takes the stairs so either he doesn't want to be solidair, or he really prefers the stairs and I have to use the elevator by myself because he prefers the stairs above my company. I know it's not true but I do get that feeling.

Also there are no pillows (not a couch or loveseat or sofa or anything either, just fairly basic chairs as you might in any medical office). I like to hug pillows so that is a bit of a disappointment.
Fun fact - pdoc told me once that he worked at a facility for a while where there was a couch in his office and that annoyed him to no end, because people would lie down on it and that made the conversation awkward.

What I do like is that both the rooms the T uses and my pdocs office don't have assigned seating. Yeah, the desks and desk chairs are theirs, but they don't sit at their desk during appointments. T's rooms just have a square table with 4 or 5 chairs, I can sit wherever I want to (although sometimes her notebook is already at a seat. Doesn't really matter as that's never been my preferred seat.). Pdoc has a desk beneath the window and in a corner a chair, a small round table and anothet chair. If it's just the two of us I take one seat (always the same one ) and he takes the other. If my mother is accompanying me we sit in those chairs and pdoc moves his desk chair over and sits there.
(Fun fact 2: pdoc can really relax in the normal chairs, almost lying/leaning back. It makes me feel like we're both thinking about how to help me instead of him being an authorative doctor. Not that he ever is an authorative doctor, just the way he sits in that chair reinforces that we're in this together. Otoh, in the desk chair he sits more upright.)

Pdoc thinks it's funny I always wait to be invited before sitting down. He doesn't usually notice because he usually invites me to sit down when he closes the door, but last session he didn't so I remained standing. After a few seconds he was like, "Are you waiting for permission to sit doen?" Yep..