Dear T,
Thanks for meeting with me outside today. It was good to see you in person after 15 months. Yeah, it did feel more casual and a bit more friend-like, but I think that's OK? It helped me feel more connected to you, and I'm not under some illusion that we're actually friends vs. therapist and client. I think maybe I just needed to see that you were still there, in 3 dimensions. And that we could still connect that way.

Will I feel a little sad that I'll be seeing you online Wednesday? Yeah, maybe. But I'm hoping this in-person meeting can hold me until we can meet in person again for real, inside your office. Or that maybe we can do another outdoor one next month, though it's only going to get hotter outside, I suppose (at least cicadas should be gone!).

And sorry if I had trouble parting ways at the end (maybe it wasn't obvious?). I sort of wish I'd been the first to get up and walk away, though I suppose I was standing at the same time you were leaving. Hm, I think we need to further address my fear of possibly overstaying my welcome with people. I mean, if you had a client at 11:30, you'd have had to get back upstairs and set up an online session, plus anything like using the bathroom. And I can recognize that intellectually. But emotionally, it's hard for me to end the first in-person session in 15 months with "Bye now."

Love,
LT