How freeing and joyous it is to be free to meet in person! At last! We get to be with each other three dimensionally instead of two dimensionally! It makes such a difference. There are two real life people in the room instead of two disembodied heads in each person’s remote room.
It’s true that Zoom, FaceTime, and other such platforms ARE convenient. We’ve all experienced this, and it has been and can be a godsend.
However, the therapy office provides such a restful, relaxed, and opportune space in which to have therapy. It’s decidedly not your car. It’s quiet and private and feels like a sanctuary. It IS a sanctuary. It’s removed from all the normal hustle and bustle. There are no distractions to put away those clothes that were strewn around the room, to straighten the art on the wall, dust the cabinet, respond to texts and emails, etc., etc., etc. It’s really just about you. Having that opportunity to focus only on you magnifies the effect of therapy.
There’s also the space provided by coming to the office before and by leaving after. There’s a place to transition from the outside world to the internal one: the waiting room. There’s breathing room to digest what went on in the session during the time one leaves and is on their way to get to the next place. That’s important because what gets stirred up in the meeting develops a life of its own which keeps on deepening long after the formal session ends.