I love my new therapist's office. She is in practice by herself and has no office staff. It's a small, exclusively expensive office/store space. Why do I like it? It's quiet, low traffic and hidden. I walk into her waiting room and there is NEVER anyone in it. NEVER! She spaces out her clients by 30 minutes. She's a retired college professor who provided supervision for psychiatric residents in the area of psychoanalysis at a major Midwestern University, and currently, she provides consultation/supervision for relational analysts in the local community, as well as, lecturing and providing supervision for the local med school. So, she only has four or five actual clients on her caseload at a time. I was lucky enough to call at a time when she had an opening for a new client. She works only three days a week so I always have the same time/session during the week. I like that I don't have to wonder if I she's going to be able to squeeze me in that week. The hour I started with is my hour until I decide to stop therapy or she has to stop being a therapist for some reason. It works for me.

PS. I wanted to add that I like the exclusiveness of the office because it is so "out of the way". I laugh when I go by the French Café and the expensive clothing shops, knowing they aren't things that would EVER bring me comfort or fun. . . .I spend my extra cash on therapy LOL