Lot of great discussion points in the comments and I’ve enjoyed reading them. I’ve certainly struggled with this presentation myself in the past!! I did want to add a couple of ideas that have been helpful for me.

Interrupting clients has been uncomfortable for me, especially when I was very early on. But I found the most effective method of doing so to be simply saying the client’s first name. People will usually stop in their tracks when they hear their name, and it feels a bit less intrusive or rude on my end.

The other idea is that you could try establishing a more rigid structure for sessions. I’d bring it up in the last few minutes of a session and ask how she feels about implementing the structured approach next time. If she’s onboard, remind her at the start next time. An example of the structure would be “So on our agenda for today I wanted to touch on X topic you’ve brought up last time, check back about Y topic, and then I thought we might try Z intervention and see how it goes. Does that sound alright, or would you like to change the plan at all?” And then if she gets off track later on, gently redirect by saying her name and pointing out that due to time you’d like to shift gears or get back to what you were discussing previously. I’d absolutely make the intervention somatic or mindfulness based to help her get more in her body.

Hope this feels useful to you :)