I don't know how you guys do it. Just stop on the minute? I did have to do that when I first started therapy. I was the last appointment of the day and so we had to leave when the building was closing. That meant that we had to stop at 50 minutes. I hated that. I never felt like I was getting anywhere.

I expressed this frustration with my therapist. Since summer was coming up, and I was out for the summer, she said that we would have more time to talk. This is when our sessions started going to 90 minutes. Same fee, just longer time.

This makes it so much better. I get so much more accomplished. After that summer, we kinda stuck with 90 minutes. I just took off from work a little earlier so that I could make an earlier appointment.

During the summer, we have gone as long as 2 hours. This is normally her call. I try to start finishing up when I see that we have gone about an hour and twenty minutes. She does not have back to back clients, so this works for us.

I do see that time boundaries are important. But I don't see how that can be therapeutic. It would be a disaster for me if I only had 50 minutes.