My T and I terminated therapy over a 14 month period and the whole period was very intense but toward the end one becomes almost bored because everything one needed to address has been addressed. Some things haven't necessarily been resolved but how to address them further if one wants to on one's own has been learned.

I loved going to therapy (was in therapy 1996-2005) and the intensity of the termination period was partially because I really enjoyed working on myself and was good at it :-) I miss my therapist as a "friend" and helper, that's a long time (and I'd seen her for 9 years previously in the 1970's and 80's so "knew" her over a 30 year period, more than half my life and almost longer than I knew my "problems") to be working so intensely with someone.

So, if I had to decide when to stop going again it would be when I was "bored" and felt that I had gotten all that I possibly could get from therapy. I know now too, that if one leaves therapy one can often go back and start again. That would have been a really good thing to know the first time my T and I terminated in 1987. I wasn't ready to terminate then but was moving and changing jobs and whole lifestyles so had to choose between therapy and "life". It all came out extremely well and my experiences in all phases have helped me to this day and I anticipate, will into the future.