I actually don't know how long my sessions last, but I think they are about an hour. I leave that up to T. I completely trust him to manage the length of the sessions. He does not have a clock where I can see it. He often starts late, so I think he tends to end late too. I never feel like he is shorting me out of time. Sometimes I think we go over time, but can't be sure, as I don't know what time we start. Krazybean, maybe if you don't watch the clock, you won't know if you go over time or not, so you won't be disappointed.

If T and I are doing the entire EMDR protocol, which can take a while to get through, he will sometimes schedule a longer session so we can do it properly. And one time my husband and I had a special weekend 2 hour session, but this was agreed upon beforehand. Sometimes the 1 hour session just doesn't work for all situations. I recently saw the child specialist for our divorce, who is a therapist. She felt we just needed to meet once and get everything out, so she let our session go as long as it took. We were together 4.5 hours! But for that situation, that lengthy meeting was very efficient and better than meeting 4 weeks in a row for 1 hour each time. We needed time to develop our brand new relationship so I could divulge important stuff, and that would have been disrupted if we utilized the one hour weekly model.

I like if there can be flexibility if the situation warrants it. I also really really like giving T the responsibility for managing the length of our sessions. It makes me feel really safe to be able to give this up to him.