I think everyone is different. If you are committed to achieving specific goals then they can happen really fast. If your kind of lost and not sure why exactly your going or what you looking for, then it may take some time to figure that out. For me when I first entered therapy I had some very specific objectives, I had some raging fires to put out. When I look back, I got these issues address and under control pretty quickly. However, once they were managed then I started working on what created them in the first place...THIS work has been long and very complex to work through.