"an initial session" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You could use it to refer to the first meeting of two or more individuals for a collaborative project, a counseling session, or any other type of event. For example: "We will be having an initial session next week to discuss the new project."
The earlier meeting fell through after soldiers mistakenly patrolled in an area near a coastal highway where the two teams held an initial session a day earlier.
("Interesting," she says. "How about a different question about investing or Pioneer?") A CHAT with Logan simulates an initial session with a financial planner.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 - The special prosecutor in the C.I.A. leak case returned on Wednesday to the federal courthouse for an initial session with a new grand jury in the criminal inquiry.
Mr. Gardner would create his work in two passes: an initial session to type out the initial draft, and then a final reworking with pen and a bit of literal cut-and-paste.
Unlike an initial session of the summit, where the leaders met in a large ballroom with retinues of aides on issues of trade, education and multilateral responses to natural disasters, the session Saturday included only the 18 leaders and one adviser each in a smaller room — suggesting a relative intimacy that likely facilitated more candor.
Clients might present once and not return or, after a telephone intake, they may not come in for an initial session.
The 8 sessions comprise an initial assessment session followed by 7 intervention sessions.
They attended a two-hour initial session at which VCM was presented, and then spent a mean of 4 hours (2 to 7 hours) on the VCM training software and the VCM paper manual, at home.
After an initial shakedown session complete a practice session covering at least ten laps.
Ordinarily, this would take place sixty days after a client's initial session.
Training for care coordinators consisted of a 1.5-day initial session on the PDC philosophy, service-delivery protocol and the CCIS that guides service delivery.
