Until recently, my therapist only told me two weeks in advance if she was taking time off. This last time, she asked me if I wanted to know 2 weeks in advance or if I wanted to know right then and I was like, have you even met me before? Of course I wanted to know immediately. She wrote it down for me, but not in pre-printed handout form. She just asked if I would like her to write down the dates, and I said yes. And then I cried...seven months in advance. She lent me a book about one of the places she'll be going, so that was pretty great.