My sessions end really abruptly, one minute we are talking about something, and I can see our time is about up, then she says, ' we have to end now'. To me it feels almost callous the way she ends. I feel - after all we've talked about today you just casually say that. As I am writing this I realise that I could talk about this with her and ask her if we could try some acknowledgement of my feelings and how hard the session has been before she ends. What I wonder is how many other of her clients feel the same way as me, surely I'm not the only one who finds it an abrupt ending, and surely she could already have figured out that to end like that is hard on clients.
How do other therapists handle the ending? Of course some of you are lucky enough to have an hour or more, not just 50 minutes.
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