I have been working with the most wonderful T, but I feel I need to terminate due to them not being helpful. It is a long story, but his memory has suffered after an illness, and it is like he doesn't remember much of what we worked on a year prior to his illness. It breaks my heart, he was the first one to ever give me unconditional positive regard, and it felt so good.

I have found a T I am meeting with this week to see if she is a good fit, but I am having trouble with how to tell my current T how grateful I am for the good work we have done, but yet in a sense I am firing him.

My last session was so hard because I brought up this problem for the 2nd time and he was somewhat resistant to believing me. He said it was my perception that was off, I was looking for something wrong after his illness. That could be partly true, but the stuff he forgot, after working together every week was major stuff, not just minor stuff. Ex. what I am going to school for, (psych), and he even said he would consider being my mentor when I go to graduate school. Well if he forgot I am even a psych student, he surely doesn't remember saying he would be my mentor. This is so hard to do, but I know I have to do what is best for me.
So I am wondering if anyone else had this happen to them.