How does your T let you know your time is up?

"Ok, you can get the F up and get the F out"
lol

Things usually just die down, I know when the session is over, so sometimes I say well, thats all I got. Sometimes, she just ends it by talking about next week or whatever.

My T just casually leans over to her desk and grabs her appointment book. Even if we've already scheduled the next couple of weeks session she just grabs it and holds it in her lap. It kind of addresses the time without actually saying anything about it which I like.

she walks over to me and says kiss me you damn fool and don't let the door hit ya on the ***

oh how I wonder lol

I pay at the start, too. It makes it so much easier. I'm very grateful.

I bring my own timer, and leave when time is up. That way I won't annoy T by staying too long.

My old T would say, "Well, it's about time to wrap up." Then she'll pick up her clip board and ask me to say what I learned during the session and what I plan to take away from it.

My T has an office manager who rings her when the next client comes in but T decides when we are done. When we got the dreaded third ring, I started apologizing but she said she was in charge of time. She won't let me go until she feels I am safe and ready. Natch some times I don't feel like I'm ready but she has been right so far. After working together for 12 years we just know each others rhythm.

If we are onto fantasy here's mine: My T says (sincerely) - 'I really love the 50 minutes we spend together, I shall think of you everyday and look forward to next time, I am a better person from having known you.'

"We'll continue on Tuesday/Thursday". It is a pretty good way to finish, I think, focusing on the fact that it is a continuing conversation. When I pay (a couple of times a year) we get that out of the way first thing. I wouldn't like to do it at the end of the appointment. If there is any scheduling change to be discussed we do it at the beginning, too, but that is rare. I have two set appointments a week, at the same time on Tue and Thu every week. (Unless it is stupid Christmas week or stupid New Years week or stupid Epiphany stupid week.)

My fantasy would be that T would say "We don't need to stop just yet, let's keep talking for another hour or two."

I always hope for a bit longer too.