All’s Well That Ends Well; Closing Therapy
Therapy can be terminated for several reasons. Some reasons are the ending of insurance coverage, parents forcing children to stop the session for personal reasons, and when fellow or internist’s graduation time arrives. Also, when the therapist moves to a different practice or when the client has completed the therapy sessions and when appropriately ready to be dismissed from the session, which I call favourable termination. However, from Bromfield's 19 statement, I see the conversation between the therapist and his client, Quentin. When the therapist brought up the conversation to tell Quentin that their therapy session would be terminated sometime soon due to his graduating from the program, his client was agitated because he had built a good relationship with the therapist, which was unexpected news for him.
After clients build a good relationship with their therapist, they don’t like to switch to another one because they don’t want to repeat the same conversation they had with their previous therapist. This is the challenging part. I observed that clients dislike switching and following up with another new provider. However, if the client wants to switch to another therapist, he/she could be connected via a previous therapist’s referral to the new therapist. This will reduce the frustration of searching for a new provider.