I like reading peoples insights here. I think that you probably have to figure this out for yourself. I think once a week is a pretty good amount of time for me...but sometimes I don't need it that much or at all, and other people i'm sure greatly benefit from seeing a therapist more often. (I'm sure I could too...but that would get to be kind of costly).

The self-growth and self-awareness that you gain through therapy is a process that lasts our whole lifetime. Therapy is definitely helpful to work through issues, but there are also other ways to push ourselves to grow. Once you learn some basic skills like setting healthy boundaries, or assertiveness or whatever skills you need to make your life better right now...you can start to practice them on your own.

For me its hard to really track my progress. I've seen therapists for over five years now but much of that was through college, and moving around a lot so I had quite a few different therapists. I think if you can find a good one and stick with it that is best. But sometimes when you're new you don't even know what a good therapist is for you...so you may even have to search around.