Blair

02 Who arrives

Blair, and how she works.

Couples who have never booked two therapists worry about being outnumbered; ten minutes in, nobody is counting. She keeps track of the time in a pair, which frees the other therapist to forget about it entirely. Romanian or English, direct in both and never brisk in either. Overnight bookings are hers by preference: eight hours behind the Albert Cuyp, and at twenty-seven she has no trouble with the hour those end.

Blair 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.

She works outcall only, your hotel room, your serviced apartment, your own flat. Forty to sixty minutes across the centre once the booking is settled, at any hour. Schiphol airport hotels are by arrangement.