I switched from weekly to monthly a few months ago. It's hard, I'd prefer to go more often, but I second what another poster said about monthly therapy giving one more time to implement changes, and how weekly therapy can make one's life revolve around that session. I'm not sure it was 100% healthy for me to go once a week, not after I was no longer in crisis.

In terms of session time being spent on catch-up...well, I don't. I just don't catch T up on my life. Not unless I want to spend the session chit-chatting (which is fine--sometimes I do). Otherwise I pick one, maybe two things that have been on my mind and talk about those.

I hope you find something that works for you.