My T has it in our contract each year that he will not dump me in that year. But if I have not made progress each year he states he is ethically bound to refer me.

Luckily I am usually working hard at what he wants me to do to improve and that is not a problem although there have been periods where I go backwards and he worries that he is not helping me. He always tells me though he bases progress on the entire year because there will be times when I regress.