I had a termination session when my previous T moved away. We left under very good terms, but I found the termination session to be very helpful. It was very emotional for me, though - I pretty much cried through the while thing, because I really, really did not want to lose him.
We reviewed the progress I'd made and the things I still wanted to work on with a new T. He had given me a few names of other Ts to try and I'd talked to one them a couple of times, so we talked about how that went (not well - I terminated with her after only 3 sessions).
We also had the opportunity to talk about what our work had meant to each of us. It was really gratifying to hear his perspective on it. We hugged, he walked me out, we shook hands and that was it.
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