Harper

Warm hands, a warm room and one lamp left burning: what she asks for before an hour starts, and rarely anything beyond that.

Ask for Harper How an hour is held

Harper, as she is

In her own hours

Twenty-seven, brunette, out of De Pijp, and the sort of therapist who checks the radiator before she checks the time. English is the language on her page and there is not much of it in the room once the hour is under way. She works slowly down from the shoulders and does not narrate any of it. Whatever an hour holds is her call, spoken aloud in the opening minutes so that nothing about it has to be guessed.

Harper decides which bookings she takes and may decline any of them; she sets the limits for what a session includes, says what they are, and may end a visit at any point, as the terms set out.