I'm having a hard time answering my own question. We had an unsuccessful session Monday, hence my preoccupation with how many are productive. And I already know how we both handle conflict and related emotions, so it wasn't illuminating. Just a misfire, really.

If anything, an illustration that I have high expectations and hopes and those don't always pan out, which I don't think we could call news anymore, lol.

Rather, I think our rift caused a bit of a setback, so that costs time to fix. And a lot of time to deal with and work through, and time just being stressed.

And the whole point of the session I didn't have was to have been about exactly that- to help me deal with stress better this week. Ha.

Perhaps my lesson is that the universe believes in irony.

At any rate, we've had a lot of sessions together, probably.... 400 and a similarly high number of emails, and if I had to try and objectively judge how many I found useful (not necessarily pleasant, though some were, but helpful in some way) I suppose I'd say.... 70%? (I might be judging too harshly. I'm the girl who always gets As in class and think the teacher doesn't grade me toughly enough, ha.) It truly is hard to weigh the numbers.

Conversely, I have had single sessions that were as helpful as 10 regular sessions if weighed by value rather than time, such as the one where I was inspired to return to college, so of course, the number isn't everything.

But I appreciate everyone sharing, it's nice to have some perspective.