my T has many ways of stopping .i guess because i have developed many ways of being in session.if i am in a place that i cant come up with words or speak and have spent the session silent,she will end in 45 min but will give me plenty of warning if i want to talk by saying we have this amount of time left are you sure this is how you want your session to go?then she will say it is time to stop for today

if i am able or willing to speak she will usually go 50 min before she says it is time to stop. she will usually start to say some light chatter and send me on my way .a lot of times i am still worked up.

if we are doing something ,like art or playing a game or something she will start cleaning up and i know it is close to the end of session.the same rules of time seem to apply here also 45 min if i am not willing to talk 50 min if i am.

my T doesn't have a clock that i am able to see she keeps it on the table facing her and i don't wear a watch(although have been thinking of getting one do to this)so she is in complete control of the time.

for a long time i never noticed the 45 min and 50 min difference until one day i happened to look at the clock in the reception area and saw it was a 45 min session and thought it strange because i thought it was suppose to be a 50 min session.so i kept looking as i leave.i noticed when i am able to deal and talk it is 50 min.now i kind of use the time she spends with me as a kind of gage as to how well i think she thought i did in T that day.45 min not so good 50 min i must have not been so boring i know it is kind of strange.