Dear Potential New T,

I wonder if you can be the warm, supportive, caring, close person that I feel I need by my side as we take this journey. Your gentle and warm voicemail seemed so at odds to how I felt you to be in the session, which surprised me.

That said, I have to keep reminding myself that you know nothing about me yet! Maybe it will come, in time. Or maybe it won't. I don't know. I sense that you will have strong boundaries around the client/counsellor relationship, which I think will be hard for me having come from a very close relationship with Ex T. It is that closeness that helped me so much, I believe, and so I am keen to try and find that again going forwards.

I miss Ex T so much, not just because it was her, but because the way we worked together was so restorative for me. I was hopeful that you and I might be able to cultivate something similar.

I guess time will tell. See you again next week.

Me