Experience with home visits by therapist?

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Hi everyone,

Does anyone have experience with having your therapist come to your home to do

exposure with your child?

Our therapist keeps mentioning that she offers home visits to do extensive

exposure work (basically, " contaminating " the entire house and then doing

exposure with our 10-year-old). As she explained it, there would be no " safe "

place for my daughter, so she would not be able to avoid her fears by avoiding

her bedroom, for example.

When I asked her for more info, she said that ideally we'd be doing these types

of visits twice a month.

My daughter is dead-set against this. She says it feels like an invasion of

privacy to have the therapist come here and prefers that my husband and I do the

exposure homework with her.

I'm concerned about the cost, too. Because we would have to pay for travel time,

the fee would be 3-4 times an office visit. Due to some other issues, this is a

huge concern right now.

Since my daughter is showing steady improvement with weekly therapy sessions and

homework (no meds at this point), I'm questioning whether home visits are

necessary or whether we can safely continue without them.

Thanks for any input you have to offer,