Letting Go of the Work You Love: A Workbook for Therapists to Prepare for Retirement, Close a Practice, and End a Career with Integrity

Retiring from a career in mental health is uniquely complex. Whether you are in private practice, community care, or education, the enduring nature of the therapist-client relationship sets this profession apart from any other area of health care.

How do you leave the work you love—with compassion, clarity, and care?

In Letting Go of the Work You Love, authors and therapists Lynn Grodzki and Margaret Wehrenberg offer a groundbreaking roadmap for therapists preparing to step away from their professional roles, whether by choice, necessity, or life change. This essential guide—unlike any other for therapists—provides both practical and emotional counsel for navigating your retirement. You’ll learn how to:

• Ease the uncertainty of knowing when and how to take the first steps of closing your practice
• Support your clients through the process of ending therapy in a collaborative, ethical, and healing way
• Gently detach from your professional identity and rediscover your worth beyond your role
• Follow a ten-step retirement plan to answer all your questions about the logistics of leaving
• Claim your legacy and translate your skills to a meaningful next life chapter
• Redefine your sense of wholeness and fulfillment as you shape your future

Whether your retirement is years away or just around the corner, Letting Go of the Work You Love helps you leave with the same intention, grace, and compassion you’ve always given to your work.

Let this workbook be your trusted guide to ending well—and beginning again.