I'm sorry your t is going away for so long, that's so hard!! My t just moved to another state, we talked about our feelings re: ending our face-to-face relationship over three or four sessions before she left. That helped me a lot. I'm in the termination phase of therapy but it's STILL hard changing the dynamics like that! We're doing phone sessions now, in fact had our first one yesterday morning before I went to work (cuz she's in a different time zone now and everything!) I was a little worried that she would be "different" somehow over the phone but she wasn't.... same old wonderful her! I had been seeing her once a week but we're going to twice a month now that it's phone sessions. During the two weeks that just passed since our last face-to-face, I did a lot of writing, went to a show with friends, and posted stuff here. I hope you can talk with your t some more re: your feelings about his going away for 3 months before he leaves. Looking back now that my t has moved, it was really helpful for me that she allowed me those 3 or 4 sessions in person still to process through my feelings about her leaving with her. When she first told me she was moving, I spent the rest of that session saying at random moments the name of the state she moved to trying to wrap my mind around it. Talking with her about my feelings was the best thing.