My therapist who is also my psychiatrist is retiring on September 15th 2022. I wish him good luck in his retirement and to enjoy it fully and wholly, but I'll miss him. And I'm on the waiting list for a new one as he has cancelled all my appointments with him so yeah. I dunno who my next one will, female or male, know nothing about him/her. I'm a bit stressed out and anxious about it TBH. What about you? Do you have a therapist/psychiatrist/dr retiring?
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Therapist/Psychiatrist is Retiring!
- Thread starter Naiwen
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TLDR: Therapist/Psychiatrist is Retiring!
In the forum thread, Naiwen shared that their therapist and psychiatrist is retiring on September 15th, 2022, expressing mixed feelings about the transition and uncertainty regarding their future therapist. Naiwen is currently on a waiting list and has no information about the new therapist's identity or background, causing them stress and anxiety.
Lavalamp responded by encouraging Naiwen to give the new therapist a chance, pointing out that their current therapist was also new to them at one point. Lavalamp's advice suggests approaching the change with openness, similar to how one would have approached their initial meetings with their now-retiring therapist.
I suppose all you can do is give the new therapist a chance. If you think about it, at one point you would have been in the same position with your current therapist (i.e. they were new to you at the beginning), so I guess that giving a new therapist as go is probably all you can really do.
