Claire

02 Who arrives

Claire, and how she works.

Nothing about a hotel address surprises her any more, and there are not many between the Singel and the Damrak that she has not seen. Two things make her good in a pair: a manner identical at eight in the evening and at four in the morning, and a habit, in French, German or English, of explaining just enough and then stopping. The risk with two therapists is always two different energies in one room, and she removes it simply by not having a second one. Couples who try ninety minutes with her and a colleague rarely go back to the single hour.

Claire 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.