It is time for me to begin terminating clients, and I must admit that this is harder than I thought. As I talk to my adolescent clients, they say things like...."Will you be able to call me? (No)...Can you hit me up on MySpace? (No)...What about sending me letters...Christmas cards...anything?"

The one thing that I have learned about terminating clients is that it is important to be upfront and honest with them. With my particular clients, it is important that they know that I am not abandoning them for something better, but that my time with them has come to an end.

The difficult thing for me personally is that I do want to know what happens to my clients. Will they go to high school? Will they pass their current grade? Will she/he break up with her/his significant other? Will his/her mom/dad come back into his/her life? Will they "make it"? I guess that I will never know the answers to these questions, but I have to trust that I did the best that I could with my time with them. I have to trust that seeds were planted and that they will eventually bloom and flourish.