I do think that its possible to make progress in an hour a week, because SO much of the "work" of therapy is done outside of session. I have to do a LOT of processing between sessions...sometimes I write here, or to T, or in a journal, sometimes I read, sometimes I just pay attention to what comes up. I've discovered that there isn't enough time to bring EVERYTHING I want to to T, so sometimes he doesn't get to hear my insights, or what's happening in my day to day life, or whatever we don't get to. But what we DO get to is usually enough to keep the ball rolling.

Having said that, I've seen T mostly twice a week for over 3 years now...I went down to once a week for a little while, but am back to twice for now. For me, holding onto the safety of the therapeutic relationship was a HUGE issue, so twice a week helped with that. And when I started therapy, I was dealing with my trauma crap for the first time EVER, and it was REALLY overwhelming. I needed twice a week to learn how to contain everything.

I remember when I started therapy, I told T that I really just wanted to do therapy 24/7 for a couple of weeks and get it OVER with. T told me that if I tried that, I'd end up in the hospital. I know now he was SO right...I think that only seeing T once or twice a week slows things down enough that we have TIME to process them and deal with them without becoming too too overwhelmed.

It has been a SLOW process for me. I think it depends on each person's history. T told me that some people are really "done" with therapy in a year, and others (like me ) take longer.

Do you feel like things are moving too slowly, suratji??