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Originally Posted by atisketatasket
Been thinking about this a bit lately...
Scenario: you and a therapist with whom you've worked for a while, and with whom you have a good therapeutic relationship, are terminating (e.g., they're retiring, you're moving, no one's dumping anyone, i.e., you're parting on good terms). You may be done with therapy, or you may be planning to switch to another therapist for whatever reason). What does "closure" look like for you in that scenario? Without physical objects - no gifts or anything like that, just emotional/mental/psychological etc.
You can actually have been through this, or you can just have a vision for it. I'm just looking for a sense of what this LOOKS like to clients ending with a therapist.
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I'm not sure I believe in 'closure'. In a therapy situation, parting on good terms just means, for me, that there are no hard feelings for either party...that doesn't mean there's not unattended business that needed to be addressed. I see 'closure' in your scenario as being able to walk away from the person you've been seeing w/a smile on your face, satisfied that you'd said all you needed to say to be happy with the ending. I don't think that happens very often in the world of psychotherapy/emotions/what-ifs/and all of that human stuff.