My retired therapist also told me he has to keep them some amount of years after their termination and then will shred them. They don't have to give you your therapy notes (beyond schedule and drugs and the like, per HIPAA) though they can if they want. Mine wrote up a two page summary (of my whole life!) to give out to would-be new therapists/psychiatrists. and said that was all the notes he would give out--it included drugs.