Little mouse, try to stay in a present, today-only frame of mind! When I use to overwhelm myself during the termination process (mine took about a year and a half) I'd remind myself, "we're not terminating today!" and keep working on what we were working on. Everything works together toward the termination, it is a process, not a here-today-gone-tomorrow single event. Remember when you started first grade or 9th grade and were freaking out about 6th grade or graduating high school? It didn't happen like that, did it? When it did "happen" it was okay because you had worked toward it. That's how termination works too.
I freaked myself out in college and had to start therapy back when I was 20 because I "suddenly" realized I had to graduate and "go out into the world" and find a job, support myself, be an "adult" and I'd never considered all that before, just thought life would be one year following the next, no "big" changes, just do the "next" thing. But, one can't get ready for that if one doesn't prepare and look at it square in the face and start thinking of what needs doing/how to do it/how to learn skills one needs, what skills one already has and how to use them, etc. Now you know there will be termination eventually and have (for whatever reason) taken a step of having fewer sessions. See how fewer sessions help you!
See how well you cope and/or how hard it is and "why" in concrete terms and brainstorm ways to help yourself view things differently. You can't "practice" not being in therapy if you are in therapy :-) This is an opportunity, not a tragedy! :-) You use to have 2+ sessions now you have less (but still have the training wheels of having a session, you're still in therapy but not as much is all). Lessening sessions lets you get a little practice and very real experience!
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