If you are currently in therapy, do you know how much longer you plan to or will be therapy? Do you have a deadline in mine, or an event that will determine it, or will you wait until you have reached your goals or progressed to a particular point?

My answer: I'm thinking about this in several contexts, including having reduced sessions to every other week in the past year and no longer being terrified about my T retiring before I'm done or where i want to be. I used to not be able to consider the possibility of terminating therapy without freaking out.

On the other hand, my work is stressful and high stakes for the trauma victims I work with, and therapy is self care as it is the only place where I can talk about my work without worrying about exposing my friends to traumatic material. It is helpful for me to have a regular place where I can talk about how my work affects me.

I'm also at a transition point in my work, as I will soon end a half-time job that I have enjoyed but has some institutional hassles that make me kind of nuts. I am working on a creative project and continuing the self employment I have done for many years. This will reduce my stress as well as open up some time so I won't have to work as many hours each week. I am curious whether reducing my stress will also rescue my need for therapy. Maybe I can reduce to 1/month.