Endings are never just endings. Especially in therapy. One of the most tender aspects of this work, which people don’t always discuss, is the ending. Therapy endings carry a particular weight. They can feel warm, bittersweet, proud, painful, or quietly significant. For me, as a therapist, they often encompass all these emotions at once. Endings are not simply the moment a client walks out the door for the last time; they represent a process. A transition. A relationship compl

Discovering Who You Are in Therapy: Meeting Yourself Beyond What You Were Told and Believe One of the most powerful — and sometimes unsettling parts of therapy is when someone begins to question: “If I’m not all the things people have told me I am… then who am I?” It’s a question that often surfaces once we’ve moved past the immediate reasons for coming to therapy — the anxiety, the exhaustion, the grief, the confusion. When the layers begin to soften, something deeper starts