Rita

02 Who arrives

Rita, and how she works.

Couples who book two therapists sometimes expect a spectacle and get something calmer instead, which is largely her doing. She works slowly, keeps her half of the room in order, and matches the other therapist's pressure rather than her own preference. Her Italian and her English are both unhurried, and neither gets used to fill a gap. From the Jordaan out to Dam Square is her patch, and she is at the door forty to sixty minutes after a booking is confirmed. She is asked back, which in this work is the only review that means anything.

Rita 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.