Retirement isn’t as simple as walking away—it requires careful planning, precise timing, and transparent communication.
You may be asking yourself:When is the right time to close my practice?
How can I prepare my clients for this inevitable transition?
Will ending their therapy mid-process cause harm?
And how do I cope with my own anxiety, guilt, and overwhelming concerns about letting go?
Whether your ending is planned or unplanned, therapists are bound by strict ethical codes that prohibit abandoning clients. For therapists in leadership roles—managing group practices, clinics, or agencies—the complexity deepens with the added responsibility of those they lead.
To close their caseloads, therapists must be prepared to navigate the full range of client emotions and understand the impact of loosening the vital attachment bonds that underpin successful therapy—both for themselves and their clients. This is a complex clinical challenge, requiring an advanced comprehension of the attachment issues that get triggered during a forced ending, and one that most therapists are unprepared for.
The clinical steps and skills for letting go of an entire caseload have been largely unexplored and rarely discussed.
Until now!
Join Lynn Grodzki & Margaret Wehrenberg for this FREE training that will prepare you to close your caseload and make the transition out of practice much less overwhelming.
There is no cost to register and 14-day access to the recordings is included - you’ve got nothing to lose and everything to gain.
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How to Retire and Close Your Practice without Abandoning Your Clients
October 10, 2025 from 11:00am to 2:15pm CT
$169.99 Value
- Apply this novel four-stage Model of Readiness to Retire to determine the right time and process to end treatment constructively and ethically.
- Take steps to prevent clients from experiencing traumatic reactions or crises when treatment ends, whether due to planned or unplanned therapist retirement or illness.
- Use a framework of attachment styles to help clients anticipate their own responses and bring treatment to a healthy close.
- Develop communication strategies including scripts and rationale, to announce the end of treatment that complies with ethical recommendations and minimizes client regression or emotional upset.
- Address the therapist’s own feelings of loss, guilt, and anxiety surrounding caseload closure to reduce the impact on clients.
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How to Retire and Close Your Practice without Abandoning Your Clients
October 10, 2025 from 11:00am to 2:15pm CT
$169.99 Value
Lynn Grodzki is a Licensed Certified Social Worker (LCSW) and a Master Certified Coach (MCC) with over 30 years of experience working as a psychotherapist and business coach for therapists. She is the author of six books including “Building Your Ideal Private Practice” and “Therapy with a Coaching Edge” and frequently presents at national conferences.
Click here for information about Margaret Wehrenberg
Margaret (Peg) Wehrenberg, Psy.D. is the author of 11 books on the treatment of anxiety and
depression, including her best-selling The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management
Techniques. She
has crossed the USA and traveled internationally to train psychotherapists, working with a
variety of organizations. She blogged for Psychology Today on depression.
Both Lynn and Margaret have presented over many years at the Psychotherapy Networker
Symposium and have, individually and together, written many articles for the Psychotherapy
Networker Magazine. Their newest co-authored book is: Letting Go of the Work You Love: A
Workbook for Therapists to Prepare for Retirement, Close a Practice, and End a Career
with
Integrity (СƵ, 2025)