invisgirl, I'm having a similar problem now. I have been seeing my T every 3-4 weeks but would like to see him every other week for at least a bit. We schedule one appointment at a time. Last time I wanted to schedule an appointment for 2 weeks, but the soonest he had was 4 weeks. It's frustrating. I asked him if I could schedule several in advance and he let me schedule 3. I think my upcoming intervals are 4 weeks, 2 weeks, 1 week.

When I went from seeing T every week to every 2 weeks, it was really hard for me as there was not enough time in session. I eventually told him this and he came up with the solution of seeing him for 90 minute sessions instead of 50 minutes. This has worked great! Maybe your T might go for that. As far as the small talk and events of the day go, one just has to skip those to get to deeper stuff, if that is what you want to focus on. Or limit discussion of the smaller stuff to only 5 minutes. Maybe you could ask for your T's help on this.