Online therapy might be worth a try, depending on the cost. My insurance covers my therapy and I don't know if they would pay for an online provider. I like the idea for a temporary stop-gap, though.

Taking an even longer break is not really an option. Because my therapist was not herself the last two months (and cancelled at least half of our sessions), my "break" really started before she left. It's now been almost 3 months since I had "real" therapy, and I have no idea when she is returning, or even if she is returning. She said she would give all of her clients an "update" in mid-September, but she also said she would give all of her clients referrals. So, I don't feel like I can count on getting that update and, even if I do, it might just be "I still have no idea if/when I'm retuning." I'm really, really struggling right now and desperately need the therapy I've been needing for a couple of months. I never got to work through the sexual assault and I never got to talk about how I feel that my therapist might be terminally ill-- or that I now feel like the person who has been my "maternal" figure for the last 5 years might not actually care about me after all. I no longer trust my T, which is probably the biggest problem. If I can't trust her, then I really can't trust anyone. She's the person who makes it feel "safe" to reach outside my comfort zone IRL. But if I can't trust a T to do what she is paid and required to do, how can I trust regular people to do things just out of the goodness of their heart?