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Can I Just Quit Therapy?

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This article was featured in One Great Story, New York’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. In January, I quit therapy. I told people (including my therapist) that it was about the money — specifically, that I was about to have a lot less of it. I had just been laid off, and could no longer justify the $300-per-session fee. (My therapist, of course, didn’t take insurance.) And it’s true — it was about the money. But also, I … wanted to quit. I first found my therapist after I lost a pregnancy in 2022, and for a long while, our time together was helpful. Lately, though, I was using our sessions to cycle through the same three objectively dumb topics: the way I was constantly making plans I didn’t really want to keep, my worries about whether I ever would (or even could) write a second book, and my increasing anxiety at work. I would bring up the same issues; she would give the same advice. Nothing changed. (Well, until the universe took care of my job.) S

Overanalyzed A series about how we fell out of love with therapy. Illustration: Johanna Walderdorff This article was featured in One Great Story , New York ’s reading recommendation newsletter. Sign up here to get it nightly. In January, I quit therapy. I told people (including my therapist) that it was about the money — specifically, that I was about to have a lot less of it. I had just been laid off, and could no longer justify the $300-per-session fee. (My therapist, of course , didn’t take insurance.) And it’s true — it was about the money. But also, I … wanted to quit. I first found my th

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