Blindness in GURPS, and the "Star Trek" setting 2262...

[Varyon]

Originally Posted by Stormcrow

No, Hemmer was just unwilling to accept a technological fix to something he didn't consider broken. A big deal was made of this in the first season of the show.

In a somewhat similar vein, I could see a therapist who is blind deciding to eschew solutions that allow her to see, if she feels she gets a better understanding of someone without visual stimuli getting in the way, if she doesn't want their appearance to influence how she treats them, and/or if she has found that the degree of quasi-anonymity granted by her not knowing what people look like makes them more inclined to open up to her. The cane that tells her of her surroundings is a really good idea, but I feel that, rather than a Mitigator, it may be more appropriate for it to grant her Vibration Sense (which explicitly doesn't replace vision - although I believe there are Enhancements in GURPS Powers: Enhanced Senses that make it more useful in that regard). I can think of three ways to build such a thing. First off, you could give the character Vibration Sense with a Limitation for requiring the cane (I'd eyeball it at -10% or so if the canes are relatively easy to get). If the cane is somewhat unique and would be more difficult to replace, you could build it as a Gadget. Finally, if it's just gear that grants Vibration Sense to anyone who takes the time to become Familiar with it (and is sufficiently fluent in braille), wait until the 27th and build it using GURPS Meta-Tech. In all cases, you could have further Limitations if the information is limited to the width of the corridors rather than giving her an idea of where people and objects are at (that's probably -50% or more, honestly), if it takes her a moment to read the braille output (Takes Extra Time), etc.

As an aside, I'd like to commend Qoltar and/or his players for opting for a therapist that is a retired member of Star Fleet. Having previously served means she's likely to know more about where they're coming from (or at least they'll feel she does) than a typical civilian would, but at the same time they won't be potentially intimidated by her rank (as she either no longer holds one, or simply has a Courtesy Rank).