Table 5.

Perceived negative experiences.

Domain	Themes
Difficulty revisiting childhood without constraints	Challenges in recalling various aspects of my childhood self
	Difficulty connecting with emotions from childhood
Elements that disrupted immersion	Mismatch between virtual representation and my actual self
	Unfamiliarity with VR and HMD
	Limited nonverbal expression of the virtual human
	Difficulty with self-disclosure
Areas for improvement	Increasing the variety of virtual humans and backgrounds
	Improving the level of interaction with the virtual human
	Allowing more counseling time to build rapport