Hi KimmyDawn,

Thank you for your message and your kind words - I couldn't imagine being at the point of the last session, but here I nearly am....with just a couple of days to go. It is very hard.

I think probably in my case, there are years of work ahead of me, even if I were able to keep seeing the same counselor. I still have a bunch of work to do, even though we have been doing good work together. So, I hope I can find another counselor with whom I can create another good working relationship. It's all hard to imagine right now, including finding that other counselor and trying to make a new start.

But for the moment the main task is trying to say goodbye, which is a big job right there. I made a collage over the weekend about therapy - I was trying to process feelings as well as the good things that had occured while we'd been working together. I think that was a good exercise and we had a good time talking about it today.

Even while I know it is ending, it is going to be a huge change, and I am going to miss him and our working relationship a lot.

Anyway, thanks again to you and everyone here for listening.

Take care,
ErinBear