I completed my long-term therapy about three years ago. I was in therapy with my last T for about 10 years, and it certainly changed in focus and purpose multiple times over those years. I went through phases of just surviving, to working through trauma, to working on coping skills, to working on relationship issues, etc. -- sometimes combinations of them all. But eventually I reached a point where I started seeing that those issues that had at one time really affected the quality of my life -- anxiety, depression, trauma, self-concept, etc. -- started resolving. I started recognizing that I was having fewer symptoms and that when I did have symptoms, I was actually using what I had learned about myself to work through them more independently rather than needing my therapist to walk me through them. I reached a point where I really didn't need my therapist to help me do what I could now do for myself, and that was when I knew it was time to end my therapy.