Beatrice

Reunion evenings are the bulk of what she is asked for, and she treats the first half of one as deliberately slower than the second. She lives in Oud-Zuid, where the rented apartments are generous enough for four people to move around each other without anyone being in the way, which matters when a couple have booked a therapist each. She works in Italian and in English, and she reads which one a room wants instead of asking. At twenty-six she no longer expects two people who have been apart for a month to know in advance what they want from the evening, and she has stopped making them decide at the door.

Beatrice decides which bookings she takes and may decline any of them; she sets the limits for what a session includes, says what they are, and may end a visit at any point, as the terms set out.

The table beside this paragraph carries every length she takes, in the column for one guest and the column for two guests sharing the room. Pick the row that matches the evening the pair of you have in mind.

Anything past three hours is quoted inside the thread rather than read off a table, and the quote is written out before you are asked to agree to it.