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Originally Posted by PumpkinEater
I'd like to hear some experiences on twice-a-week therapy. I have some difficult material to cover and she has mentioned it several times now. I'm just mulling some things over...
1. Cost (I am self-insured but pay out of pocket for therapy, wondering if there is a policy I can add on to what I currently have or maybe I'll just find another policy all together...)
2. Work schedule
3. How long (I get that this is totally dependent on the person, but I'd be curious about other personal experiences with this, too!)
4. Does it feel like enough, or will it never feel like enough?
5. Your general experiences of continuity
6. How does it affect the rest of your life during the week?
Thank you!
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I've been seeing my T 2x a week since the beginning of May. Our sessions are 75 minutes long (an hour and a half in "therapy" hours). That's down from 3x a week. When I started, I was in full blown crisis mode, and I'm still dealing with a lot of stuff going on.
1. I'm self pay, so I've had to give up other things to pay for T, but to me it's worth it.
2. I work from home so I have a flexible work schedule.
3. I ask T all the time and T says "as long as it needs to be". I figure I'll know when I can scale back to 1x a week, if I ever get that far.
4. At first, coming off of 3x a week, 2x a week felt like it wasn't enough. But, I've settled into the routine now and I actually like it. It gives me enough time to process what we talked about early in the week while still giving me the connection to keep a handle on things so I don't slip into crisis mode again.
5. I find it's easier to pick up topics that we can't fully address in one session when I know I'm going to see T again in a few days rather than a full week.
6. At first, it was very consuming, where I was thinking about T and our sessions 24/7. Now, I've settled into a routine and it actually makes things more manageable for me by telling myself that it's only 2 days between seeing T rather than a whole week.