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Old Jan 14, 2012, 02:35 PM
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How long are your sessions? How many times a week do you go and how long has I been that way?

I started out one 40 min session on e a week and quickly moved up to 2x week at 4o min but I feel it's not nearly enough!!

Does anyone do 90 min sessions? Or more freq visits? If so did u or T bring it up?
Vanessa, I have done 50 minute sessions and 90 minute sessions. Most recently we have done 90 minute sessions every 3-4 weeks for quite some time, but when we first started therapy, we did 50 minutes once a week (often drifting over). When we went to a lesser frequency, we had some trouble with that, and T suggested we have longer sessions. That has worked great!! Just the last session, at my request, we have returned to having sessions every other week for 50 minutes. I need therapy more frequently at the moment, and going so frequently, I can't afford to pay for 90 minutes each time.

Vanessa, I think 40 minutes sound quite short. I hope your talk with your T on this topic goes well. Since you go 40 minutes twice a week, maybe he would be open to your doing a longer session once a week. It would be the same length of time. The longer sessions can be so great....
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