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Loving What I Leave: Closing My Therapy Practice

Qualitative Inquiry

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Abstract

The author decides to close her long-term practice of clinical psychology. She compares chosen endings with unchosen, traumatic endings. She explores in narrative writing her decision-making process, therapist–client relationships, grief over endings, and what causes one to decide to stop working. She includes a narrative on the influence of grief on life choices, concluding that one can choose, with integrity, to leave what one loves.