Hi Elio,

I have not used a transitional object, but my therapist says that it's very common for people to ask for something like that.

My therapist doesn't take long vacations (usually no more than a week) so I can't complain, but even with that kind of break, what helps is to email. She is usually not able to reply, but will tell me to email as much as I want or need to. A couple of times, she has emailed to let me know when she's returned, which was especially helpful.

I think she is the one who brought these things up first. The most I might ask is if she's leaving the country because that worries me more than anything for some reason. She might give me a general location answer (country or state) but that's about it. Once, she said specifically one place she would be, which surprised me, but it was apparently something all her clients knew because she brought things back from there.

Anyway, I think they expect it to be concerning for some clients. Is this the first vacation she's taken with you as a client?