Is Therapy Finished?
IS THERAPY FINISHED?
One answer does not exist. However, here are some questions to ask yourself and discuss with your therapist:
What brought me into therapy?
What were my initial therapy goals?
What have I accomplished so far?
What, specifically is different in my life? How am I different? Am I thinking differently? Feeling differently?
Is there more I would like to work on right now? Later?
Are there patterns in my life that I would like to change, have changed?
Are there questions I have for my therapist?
What would it be like to begin to reduce my therapy visits?
Do I have a problem solving plan(s)?
Do I worry about how I will manage once I have stopped therapy?
Do I have a condition that requires ongoing therapy?
Why am I thinking about ending therapy now? What has prompted this thought? Is this a new thought? Have I been thinking about it for a while?
Ending therapy is as important a decision as beginning therapy. You owe it to yourself to consider this decision carefully.