Therapist Retirement: Overlooked. Complex. Finally Addressed.
Ending well is an essential, ethical process. You need time, intention and a plan. This book shows you how.
Letting Go of the Work You Love:
A Workbook for Therapists to Prepare for Retirement, Close a Practice, and End a Career with Integrity
by Lynn Grodzki, LCSW, MCC and Margaret Wehrenberg, PsyD.
PESI 2025
How therapists end a practice matters as much as how they begin.
This book is the first of its kind—written specifically for therapists, healers, and medical professionals preparing for retirement. It addresses one of the most important—and least examined—stages of a therapist’s career: How to end your career with integrity.
Retirement is not simply walking away. It requires intention, timing, care, and ethical clarity.
If you’re asking When is the right time to close my practice? How do I prepare my clients? Will I cause harm? And how do I manage my own guilt, anxiety, and uncertainty about letting go?—you are not alone.
Whether your ending is planned or unexpected, ethical standards prohibit client abandonment. For therapists in leadership roles, the stakes are even higher, affecting staff, supervisees, and entire organizations.
This workbook helps you take the first steps with confidence. You’ll learn how to thoughtfully close a caseload, navigate powerful attachment dynamics, loosen a long-held professional identity, and carry your skills and legacy into the next chapter of life.
Until now, the clinical and emotional work of letting go of an entire caseload has been largely ignored. This book fills that gap—offering practical tools, real case examples, and clear guidance to help therapists retire with compassion, integrity, and care.
Please use the menu bar at the top to see more about the new book, including upcoming or pre-recorded webinars and new seminars that support your journey into and through retirement.
Your Authors and Presenters
Lynn Grodzki, LCSW-C, MCC
Margaret Wehrenberg, PsyD.
Margaret Wehrenberg, PsyD.
Psychotherapist, master certified coach and author of seven books including Building Your Ideal Practice and Therapy with a Coaching Edge.
Margaret Wehrenberg, PsyD.
Margaret Wehrenberg, PsyD.
Margaret Wehrenberg, PsyD.
Author of 13 books on the treatment of anxiety and depression, including the bestselling The 10 Best-Ever Anxiety Management Techniques.
Are You Thinking About Retirement? Therapists face a uniquely complex retirement path.
For therapists and healers, and medical professionals --retirement involves profound shifts in identity, ethical responsibilities, and the emotional weight of concluding deeply meaningful therapeutic relationships.
Retirement is a distinct developmental stage—one that invites you to integrate your life’s work and cultivate a sense of completion and contentment. Yet many struggle to navigate this phase without adequate guidance.
Do you feel anxious or confused about retirement? We know that therapists stand at a particularly complex intersection. As they contemplate their own retirement decisions, they must integrate their life’s work and cultivate a sense of completion and contentment.
They must address clients attachment and dependency. They must have objectives and strategies that are ethical and compassionate. Yet many struggle to navigate this phase without adequate guidance.
This is why we have written this book and teach webinars and lead seminars. You need a practical, psychological guide to show you how to be ready to move forward.
Without thoughtful reflection, solid strategies for practice closure and practical planning, this transition can feel destabilizing—when, in fact, it holds enormous potential for meaning, integrity, and ongoing purpose.
Let us show you how to make this essential stage of letting go both easier and more successful for you and those you help.
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