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

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

I put that I would live there if I could. It isn't literally true but there's a part of me (probably a young part) that feels like I would like to live there. I certainly love being there and feel very safe there. He has an adjacent shower room, so all he needs to install is a little kitchenette and I'd be sorted.

I was looking at my joirnal last night. One of my first entries (July 2016) compared to going to No. 3’s as like being in an oubliette. So that must be closest to...fiery pits of Mordor or the valley of death? Hmmm.

Eta: went with Tennyson not Tolkien.

I would like to live my t but not in her office, it's old smelly and stuffy. There is nothing appealing about her therapy room!

No, it's a rather sterile, cold office. And, seeing other clients there makes it all the weirder.

Then again, I have been in seemingly "cozy" therapist offices (former T's usual office was way "cozier") and it hasn't exactly worked for me, either (my anxiety was off the charts).

The room itself is pretty basic, small and bland, but the feeling of warmth and calmness makes it an amazing space to be in, but I think that's more to do with her rather than the room itself, if I imagine being in that same room with someone else it would just seem cold!

Your polls are awesome

It is a place I feel reasonably safe...I am fortunate in that R can make visits to my home. So we meet in my living room.

Depends on which T your talking about I have one I don't mind now before I had one I hated

At least its clean. Its what my apartment wants to look like when it grows up. I think they had the same architect.

I would live there if I could but not because of the therapy or therapist. T’s office is in an old European style home in a great location. I love it.

Other. The current office is okay but very basic. It has a love seat and a chair, small coffee table and a desk. It feels like an office. This is the 3rd space we have met in. Before this ahe had a home office that as a cozy. In addition to the typical coach, chairs and coffee table. She had artwork on the walls, plays and her dog. It felt safer and copier. I didn't have to worry about seizing other people. She moved 2 hours away so no more home office

It's okay to go to twice a week for sessions but I certainly wouldn't want to stay there I would be bored to tears. The chair and the couch are comfortable and there's artwork on the walls. There's a desk, a little mini fridge, a printer, his chair and a few small nick-nacks that's it. Pretty plain Jane.

I picked other. I don't hate his office, but I don't love it either. It's in an old building that doesn't have AC but has heat for some reason. So it's too hot in the summer and too hot in the winter.

My T's office is not great. Actually it is kind of ridiculous. But I love my T, so it is ok lol.

I chose "it's ok, I guess." I hadn't even considered how I feel about her office before your poll. Just neutral I guess. I don't really care one way or another how the office is. I guess it's nice that the chair is comfortable...although it does squeak.

It's cozy and comfortable. I could definitely hang out on his couch for more than one hour but wouldn't want to live there.

I don’t know how to do polls on my phone. I can’t see the options.

I’ll just comment my thoughts, if that’s ok.

My counselor moved his office a few months ago. It was a major thing to me.

He was very kind and helped me through it.

It’s a longer distance than the other location and it’s a lot of interstate driving, which I don’t like.

Anyway.

His other location was so welcoming.

Well, except for the parking lot light that kept going out. It made me very nervous going to my car in the dark. He was kind and watched me go to my car when it was out.

His office, at that location, had other office spaces that were not used while I was there.

Sometimes after my session, I didn’t want to go home because of things that we had talked about.

I’m imaging now how nice it would have been to be able to just go into one of those spaces and just close the door. How safe it would have felt for me to just close myself away and just be with me.

His office always feels like a safe place for me, but the question put this in my mind.

My poll answer is “yes” it is a place I want to be.

Mordor. Definitely. I like my T, shes been helpful, but i go because I have to, not because I enjoy it.

I voted no. I don't actually like going to therapy much anymore but I keep going because it seems to help. I talk to my t about difficult issues so being there once a week is enough for me.

I said yes, that it's a place I feel safe. My current T's office is very calming. Not just because of T's presence--just the way he's chosen to furnish/decorate it, plus two walls of windows looking out on some trees. It's a place I'd want to hang out, even without him there.

I used to say the same about MC's office, but more his old one--that one made me feel safe. I've never felt as comfortable in his new one--it's much smaller and doesn't have the same feel to it. But his presence used to make me feel very safe, wherever he was. Not so much, as of a week ago...

With ex-T, I never had that much of an attachment to her office, even her old one. And her newer one, also much smaller, she would always talk about how much she hated it (MC consolidated the practice), so that took away any possible safety feelings. And I'm not sure why she thought a bright red couch was a good choice for a therapy room...

Would definitely not want to live there, she moved to one of those outlying faceless suburban type office parks that I can't stand, and often joke it's in the next (rural) town over. I don't like the office per se, and I'm reasonably sure this poll was not intended to be about the physical space, but about the zeitgeist. Also I like the way she has decorated her office but she has the chairs placed in a weird way where to open the door as a client, she's got to get out of her chair. She knows I don't like it and that I prefer the old building they were in downtown. But at this point in my life I don't do much that I don't want to do or go where I don't want to be, so I take the dislike of the space for the benefit of therapy. I presume if people are not court ordered into therapy, they must get something out of it regardless if they don't want to be there, even if it might not be explainable or understandable to others.

A therapist office space has no significance for me. It’s definitely about the therapist occupying the space. I had an opportunity to visit ex-therapist office for an interview for the first time in ~4 years. We spent maybe 500 hours together in the past, but I didn’t feel any remnants from that time together because of the room.

It's reasonably comfortable, calming and welcoming, but I sure as heck wouldn't want to live there! Yikes!! An hour a week is way more than enough!!!

Yes and no. Sometimes it's nice, sometimes not. It isn't what I would describe as a 'safe place' though. It's a processing room.