Thank you for holding my every other week appointment this upcoming week, even though I told you incorrectly I'd be out of town, and thanks for getting back to me so quickly that it was available.

I am fully in charge of asking to be seen more frequently, and I know you would find a spot for me every week as soon as you could. I can't decide if that's what I want, as I think I'm mostly doing fine with this every other week thing I've been doing for the past year or so. It makes me think that perhaps I will end therapy one day, which seems like it could be a good thing (you will retire before I'm ready to do that, probably). On the other hand, I think therapy for the foreseeable future to manage stress and exposure to other people's traumas may just be the continual self care that I need.

I notice I'm not panicking at the idea of you retiring before I'm ready to quit and that the idea of quitting "someday" doesn't feel terribly painful like it did once.