A word of warning about recordings. I had a T who with my permission recorded sessions as she was severely dyslexic. When a legal issue arose between my x and me, his attorney requested the tapes. The laws in my state make a distinction between a therapist's notes and recordings of both sides of the conversation. He would have gotten the tapes with the expressed purpose of playing them in court, if she hadn't erased then. She said she reused tapes after she made her notes.