Why is she stopping to see you? Is she moving or something like that? Also if you have been with her for a while a change may be necessary for you to move forward. This might be painful but ultimately a good thing for you mental health.

I agree with Thor. Hard as it is to start with someone new, you can request the therapist to send your records to the new one to help you have a head start. Just speak what you feel. Comforting hugs.

I empathize with your anxiety Rose. I dread the day my therapist retires. It took me my whole life to find her and I can’t imagine doing my healing journey without her. Triple hugs of support. Have you met the next therapist yet?

Thor2008,starting July, I will be having Medicare as the primary insurance and she does not take medicare. I have been emailing her how I am feeling and she encouraged it. She agrees that this is a change that will be positive for me BUT I does not know. I am trying to think that way. Simponsok, my current therapist may and may not send my record to the next therapist, I asked her last week. She wants me to speak and info the new therapist and if she needs info she can request it. No, Evergreen Dreamer, I have not met my new therapist my current therapist wanted it to be that way but because of insurance it cannot happen. I have to wait until July 1st to seek a new therapist yet my current therapist has to end session this Wednesday because that what my Medicaid insurance said. However there are two possible therapist but I have to wait for my case manager to see what she wants of me because she wants to be in the mist of this progress in order to support. These two emails me but one called me and spoke to me a little. The other one I spoke to a few weeks back. They seems nice but in my mind I keep saying that they aren't my current therapist. I does not know but not looking forward for tomorrow.

It's really unfair to us how insurance can complicate something as essential as our lifeline to our PTSD therapist, rose. I went through a rough therapist transition 9 years ago when I moved from Kansas to Maryland for my job. It was such a big move that my Kansas therapist couldn't make a Maryland referral for me because he didn't personally know of anyone here in Maryland. I had to start over cold.

Fortunately, the doc here in Maryland my insurance did cover turned out to have plans to retire south of the border some day, like me. In his case it was to Panama instead of to Mexico, where I grew up and plan to retire. So we hit if off on a whole new level I'd never had in common with my Kansas doctor before him.

Hopefully, even if your next therapist is different from your last one, as happened with me, there will be something about that difference that will be positive, as it has been with me, too. It's a hard transition, though, even if you do find that silver lining in it. I'm glad you're writing about it here so we can support you through it.

Thanks Mujicaptsd, thanks for the support.
My therapist wrote me a letter I got it a few hours ago. She asked me to a few weeks ago and we discuss it in session. Now she wrote me a letter and we will talk tomorrow. I cried and cried but I guess it have to be.