The reason that I am contacting you is in regards to an incident that happened today. I had to attend an assessment with regards to receiving Personal Independence Payment today, and due to anxiety about attending this assessment, my mentor - redacted - offered to attend with me, and offered to give her view on how my condition had affected me within the last few weeks, as it has begun to get worse. She also asked if her attendance could be regarded as a mentoring session so she could be paid. I agreed to this, due to the fact that I appreciated her support during the assessment. I was told that I could do this.
I attended the assessment today accompanied by my Father, who had driven me over to the assessment centre and who - due to my anxiety - had also agreed to attend with me. My mentor had already arrived, and was not pleased to see that I had not arrived alone. She asked if my Father intended to sit in with me during the assessment, and I confirmed that he did. At this point she declared that "I had not told her that someone else would be attending" and made for the exit. She did not attend the assessment with me.
Despite the fact that I find her behavior extremely unprofessional, it caused me considerable distress, anxiety and embarrassment in a situation that was difficult enough for me as it was. I am also certain that I did inform her that my parents had offered to come with me to the assessment, although I do not understand why this made any difference in the circumstances, or why my Fathers attendance caused her to behave in the way that she did. No explanation was given from her as to why she felt she could not attend if another person attended with me.
I feel extremely let down by this incident, and unless there is an extremely good reason for the behavior today, I feel that I cannot continue receiving mentoring services with redacted. I have a mentoring session on Wednesday, but due to the incident today, I feel a complete lack of trust and currently feel as though it is not worth attending.