Rita

02 Who arrives

Rita, and how she works.

Couples who book two therapists sometimes expect a spectacle and get something calmer instead, which is largely her doing. She works slowly, keeps her half of the room in order, and matches the other therapist's pressure rather than her own preference. Her Portuguese and her English are both unhurried, and neither gets used to fill a gap. From Dam Square out to the canals behind it is her patch, and she is at the door twenty or thirty minutes after a booking is confirmed. She is asked back, which in this work is the only review that means anything.

She works outcall only — your hotel room, your serviced apartment, your own flat. Twenty to thirty minutes across the centre once the booking is settled, at any hour. Schiphol airport hotels are by arrangement.