My las three terminations were excellent, and I have suffered no negative after effects, neither have the therapist. The first two were Jungian, and that's not the therapy for me. They were kind, compassionate, ethical, and nonjudgmental.

My last therapist I was with for 18 months, and we did existential therapy, with a focus on attachment style. At the outset, she told me it should take a max 18-24 months. I thought she was full of doggy doo-doo, and I was unwilling to spend a decade or the rest of my life in therapy, but decide to throw caution to the wind. I knew she was wrong. She did not know me. I was a handful, and she would kick me to the curb, even though I had longer term therapies previously, and that did not happen. I was in my 50's and still whining about not having the perfect childhood, and had no growth in my life after the previous therapies.

I saw this therapist as much as I wanted 3-5 sessions a week and 2-3 1/2 hours each sessions. One month I saw her everyday, just because that's what I wanted before I flew home to be with my FOO. She was my jet fuel. I had unlimited emails and phone calls.

She is not a believer in hospitals or that she can stop a suicidal person who is determined to die, and we had an agreement that she would NEVER call the police on me. As bad as it got sometimes she kept her promise. She understood for me that I had to get to the point of wanting to live for the sake of living. If she had interfered I'm sure I would be six feet under by now, even if it was accidentally. I never did anything to compromise my life while I was with her, except talk and verbally rage away. Her methods worked.

18 months later, we ended with a bunch of gag gifts to her, one, a vampire pacifier. Now we are 2plus years post termination, and we are friends. We don't see each other much, email or phone, because I am out accomplishing my young adult goals at the age of 55. But, when we connect, I get to talk to a dear friend. No inequality in our friendship whatsoever. The suicide parrot that sat on my shoulder 24/7 has long gone.