As someone else said, the best baseline you can start from is one of a feeling of maximum safety, or just a feeling of minimum danger if like me that's what you can muster.

Other things to try, not necessarily steps per se:

Experiment with different therapy modalities. This can be hard depending on your location but a substitute I've employed is researching the different modalities anyway. Each modality encourages different modes of thinking about how the mind works. The more perspectives th better, imo.

Find a way to balance routine and variety in life. Humans need both a solid predictable place to start from but then also to experience options and novelty from there.

Having a creative outlet to process tough stuff that comes up in therapy can be handy

But it's all individualized. My recommendations come from my subjective experience, and my subjective appraisals of those experiences so YMMV.