I am on medication for depression and anxiety, have been taking it for 2.5 years. I have also been seeing a counsellor for about 18 months. The mental health problems were triggered by the pandemic but in therapy I have realised they were probably brewing under the surface for a long time before that, due to childhood trauma.
I really like this counsellor and have made good progress with him. However he is about to take an extended break from work for the rest of the year. My options are therefore to either find a new therapist, or to take a break from therapy myself and wait until he returns to work to reconnect with him.
I would prefer to continue working with him because I trust him and am sad to have to stop for now. I also have lots of changes coming up this year including moving house, career changes and family issues. So maybe it would be good to take some time out from counselling if I won't have loads of headspace for it anyway? But then the flip side of that is maybe I will need the support with so much life stuff happening. I also don't have a huge support network generally and I don't want my mental health to decline in the meantime. I don't know though if I would fully engage with a new therapist if there was still the possibility in my mind of returning to my original one.
What do you think?