[Her cute and encouraging face is something to positively focus on. He can notice the way her dumb ears stick out, or her manly chiseled jaw, or her topknot, or her weird beads and magatamas and general oddball appearance. Or hey--- the ugly and painfully 90s ensemble she's wearing, which she somehow still manages to look cute in]

Wanna hear something funny?

[She keeps rubbing his back, rhythmically, but maybe distracting him will help him not think about whatever's affecting him like this]

My assistant's a lawyer, and whenever he gets nervous, he sweats buckets and makes this face!

[she imitates this face and manages to exaggerate it even more than it already is, somehow]

And once, he was cross-examining this pink-haired witness who acted like a little girl [she then tries to imitate April May's little... nekonya thing or w/e without actually moving her hands] who was lying, like, all the time -- and he started making fun of her! Except, she totally flipped out, and he made that face and looked like he wanted to hide under the desk.

[What a hilarious story]

Can you imagine? A grown man hiding from a pink-haired lady who talks like a kid?