Mateo would be lying if he said he wasn't nervous about this. He'd booked an appointment with Dr. Gaudet on Finn's suggestion. It wasn't like he'd done it right away, of course, he'd ruminated for a while and tossed it over in his mind but had finally committed to it. It was probably time. There was no doubt a lot to work through and the thunderbird didn't expect that any of it would be easy. He still felt so guilty and the thought of his powers still terrified and made him feel panicky...but hopefully, after enough sessions, he could work through that. It had been decades since he'd last been to therapy and he'd quite after a short amount of time because he just hadn't been able to face it, to do that kind of work and...well, forgive himself, largely. Maybe he still wasn't ready but at least he was further away from it all and though maybe he could give it another try.

Locking the doors of the library behind him, he tried to breathe deeply and evenly. They likely wouldn't get into much in a first session, right? They'd just get to know each other and that kind of thing. Nothing to be nervous about there. It would be like chatting with a coworker since, in spite of their very different actually jobs, he and Noel were both staff here even if they hadn't actually met yet. Either way, once he got through this first session maybe it would all seem less overwhelming and he could stop anxiously spiraling about it and overthinking it.

Finally outside the door, he took another deep breath and knocked politely. "Dr. Gaudet? It's Mateo Rivera." He glanced at his watch. "I'm a few minutes early for my appointment but I thought I'd let you know I was here." Maybe it was vaguely awkward to talk through the door but he wasn't about to barge in, especially if it was possible that the doctor was with another patient.