Celeste

02 Who arrives

Celeste, and how she works.

A person who needed to be the most interesting one present could not work the way she does, and in Portuguese or English she says about half of what a room expects. Reading a couple takes her a minute, who is tense about the whole idea, who did the booking, and she adjusts alongside the other therapist without a word passing between them. Jordaan apartments are small, and she treats that as an advantage rather than a constraint. Ninety minutes is what she suggests when asked; the hour, she says, ends just as the two of you have stopped thinking.

Celeste 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.