He has a private practice, but he is in the public health care system. This gives me the best of both worlds, as I see it: not too much paperwork for T and mostly free therapy for me, because he is in the system; maximum privacy for me, because only he works in his office and nobody else can get access to his journals.

Hmm. Actually I don't know how much paperwork T has to do. It has never encroached on my therapy, anyway; when I do have to pay at the beginning of each year, I pay in cash at the start of the appointment, and he writed a receipt, which takes about one minute. And I have a set appointment time, so scheduling takes no time - and in any case I really wouldn't want to talk to anybody else about my T scheduling, or any other aspect of my therapy. With exT, who worked in a group practice, I was always a bit uncomfortable about the fact that other people whom I hadn't even met - that is, the secretaries who handled the billing - knew I was in therapy. (Plus they sent the bills to my house, in an envelope with the name of the practice on it. I really disliked that!)