LittleMouse, I hope you can talk to your T both about is therapy worthwhile for you anymore and termination. Does she know therapy is not helping you? Can she suggest anything else? There is more than one approach in therapy to working on depression. Maybe she could try a different approach. Or maybe she could refer you to a therapist who works on depression differently, and this may help you more. My first counselor was CBT and had a certain approach to depression. Our work together did help me somewhat, and my depression was somewhat better, but not gone. My second therapist, who is a more eclectic practitioner (not CBT), used an approach that really helped me and helped me conquer my depression. I think it is OK to move on to a different therapist when you have exhausted the person's therapeutic skill set and need something different to help you.
I hope you will talk about this with your therapist, and also the best way to terminate, if that is what you decide to do. I am not good at termination. Twice I have left a therapist with no warning, said nothing, just never came back. Looking back, I wish I had not done that, but instead had taken a little time in therapy to get some closure and talk about the termination and plan for it. Therapists are very experienced at terminations so your T will have some good ideas on how to do it.
Take care. (((hugs)))
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