Dear LFTP: keeping your therapist on track

• How can I keep my therapist on track, or end therapy without ghosting?

Dear LFTP letter: a listener working through major anxiety finds therapy helpful at times, but the therapist goes off on tangents; how to keep the therapist on track, or break up without 'ghosting.' The hosts say just fire a bad therapist, not scheduling another appointment isn't ghosting, but warn that if you've burned through two or three therapists the problem is probably you, and a good therapist may be circling the real issue you can't see yet. The Secular answer: as the patient you can accept or reject the therapist's direction, and disengage with a letter or phone call rather than ghosting.