Therapists should be ethical about terminating clients. Period. End of story. There are codes of ethics they are supposed to abide by. Period. End of story. It's honestly not too much to ask. If there is an issue where a therapist feels unsafe then by all means terminate, but there are ethical ways to do this. If the therapist feels they cannot help the client any further then by all means terminate, but do it in an ethical way. If there is some other reason therapy cannot continue, fine, but end it ethically. It's not outrageous to expect this from a therapist. Or maybe I'm just crazy for thinking that the therapist has some responsibility in figuring out how to not abandon a client.

I've said this several times before, but I'll say it again: Many clients go into therapy because they need help with issues like abandonment or trust or similar problems. Isn't the therapist supposed to have some knowledge about how to handle these things? The burden of this should not be on the client. Two adults in a relationship doesn't mean the relationship is equal. Therapy is NOT like any other relationship no matter how much we try to pretend it is.