Posted by Dinah on November 5, 2011, at 12:07:13
In reply to T new office is small, impersonal + annoying, posted by mmealltalk on October 31, 2011, at 20:20:27
I think Raisinb's experience is similar to mine. I used to love my therapist's office with its poured glass windows and pink walls. It used to glow. I often told him I didn't need him, and that he could rent the room to me.
When he left that office and moved into a shiny new office in a shiny building, and decorated with the sharp angles of art deco, it was very distressing to me. I still have no liking for this office. And we had to see each other at all sorts of less than ideal conditions over the years.
I think it did force me to focus on him and on the space between us, and less on the surroundings. It did help me to become even more aware of the energy in the room, and sensitive to the smallest shifts in it. In the old room I had a lot of places to look, and a lot of things I enjoyed looking at. Now, any room is the therapy room if he's there and I'm there, and if the chairs are roughly the right space apart.
I'm not sure that's altogether a bad thing. Though I'd have far rather missed the gains and kept that first office. I love poured glass windows. They make beautiful sunlight.
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