I'm going to miss my therapist--how do I deal with this?!

Question: I'm going to miss my therapist--how do I deal with this?

I have around four months left with her. It feels like an impending death. It's like telling me I'm going to lose one of the people I can truly count on, which I can only count on one hand to begin with. I think about it before I go to sleep, when I'm on the train, when I'm alone, when I'm walking around the city... and I cry every time. I am absolutely devastated; I have no other way of explaining this feeling. My chest physically hurts to know that I will never see her again. I have expressed this to her and we are talking about it, but she keeps telling me that this is inevitable. I think she is going to be working somewhere else, and I have thought about going where she does, if I can/she's okay with it. She doesn't know where she'll be yet though. I also have this horrible fear that I will miss her more than she will miss me. I just want to know I mean something to somebody.

Has anyone had experience with this? How do I cope with this upcoming loss? Please help.

Answers:

i know this seems like a really big deal now but its 4 months away you say you and your therapist are disscussing this now maby she will have helped you come to terms with things more in 4 months time and you will accept it more

its natural to miss her she has helped you deal with things and is probably someone you have disscussed some quite personal feelings and issues with im sure she will miss you too but will possibly be able to reffer you to someone just as good im sorry i dont think its a great idea to follow her to where she will be going next as eventually you will have to be seperated from her but thats really nothing to do with me and would be between you and her

it will be difficult at first because if you decide to continue with the therapy it would mean trusting and openning up to someone else you dont know but im sure it will get easier with time the only thing i can recommend about dealing with it is keep talking about how you are feeling with your current therapist and let her look at ways of helping you with this

im sure you do mean a lot to people but maby your struggling to see that just now good luck and hope i helped

It is just something you will have to deal with after a while you will be ok and realize that it is not the end of the world people will always walk in and out of you life . Stop worrying about is to come and embrace what you have now.

you just do,,

deal with it

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