What an awful sounding word! I'm just reading posts on here, going back pages and pages, and a few times termination has come up. Aside from a T going to a different practice or something like that, why would they terminate? Do some T's just have a certain number of visits, then consider it done? I see some people with the same T's for years. Does the patient, to an extent, have a say in when sessions stop?

I would think hearing the words "I can't help you anymore" would be very hurtful. But if that's the case, I would hope a good T would take the patient's thoughts into account also. Perhaps the patient feels like going to the T is helpful, but the T doesn't necessarily see that.

I got SO tired of residents and doctors moving on at the clinic I used to go to so I switched clinics, did my research with the doc I have now, and we hit it off. But I will say, during my first appt with her, I flat out asked her if she had any plans to go somewhere else.....if I would get familiar with her, just to have her leave, and she assured me she did not. So when she became pregnant, and knew she'd be taking time off after the baby was born, she told me so at an appt, reminding me of that question I asked her. I laughed that she remembered, and that she took it seriously.