You know I had something similar. I had this one class that I was most looking forward to in my degree. Turned out that it conflicted with DBT group so that I wouldn't be able to attend both that class and the group for the second six months of group (we were going through the skills twice over a year, so I would miss out on most of the second run through basically). In my situation... I had signed a contract that I would attend group for one year, however. I was terminated once I informed my therapist that I had chosen to attend class over group...

I wrote letters... To the lady who was running the DBT study (I was part of an initial trial). Eventually... Once they understood how much the class meant to me (and to my recovery) they agreed that I could continue on with individual therapy.

Your situation is different, of course, because you didn't sign a contract that made your individual therapy contingent on your group attendance. It might be, however, that your therapist didn't realize the nature of the conflict and how important it was to you to attend that class? That doesn't sound quite right to me, however... It is hard to know whether seeing her again would be about *you* and about her fixing up her mistake so that you can either continue on or part on reasonable terms... Or whether it would be about her. I would guess... That that would depend a bunch on her. Ending things can be painful. We do get attached in time and 5 years is a significant amount of time. What do you think? You probably know her (how much she is typically able to focus on your interests) better than your p-doc or anything else.