I do cold water swimming. I love it. It helps me trust and know my body, I enjoy the contact with nature, the peace and solitude help me counter my aggravations. My therapist also cold water swims, something which she told me after I had spoken about my sea adventures.

She has asked me if I want to go swimming with her. It wouldn't be social contact, my session would take place in the sea. Like pirates. This would mean changing together on the beach before and after the swim. She checked if I would be ok with that.

I said I wasn't sure about swimming with her and that it would be an exceedingly strange thing to do, not least because I always swim alone.

This is weird, isn't it? I am weird and she is weird so my weird-o-meter doesn't always display an accurate reading, but this seems weird. I can't imagine a therapy session with her whilst she wears a swim suit, much less imagine her seeing me pulling on my soggy bra and sandy knickers!

I don't believe she has any sexual interest in me or intended any sexual connotation, but it seems intimate to me. Part of me would love to share the beautiful cold sea experience with her, part of me feels special that she asked. A bigger part of me thinks she's a lunatic.

Would you entertain the idea? Have you ever been offered and accepted something strange from your therapist?