I've been doing twice a week for the past several months (started with once a week).

As for its being more intense -- I don't know if that's necessarily true. Maybe because my primary emotion seems to be anger -- and, I've had equal amounts of it both at once-a-week and twice-a-week.

At twice a week, I am more likely to bring it up -- rather than stuff it down -- because I know that the next session is coming up to resolve it further and so, my whole week won't be shot to flames in my sitting with it.

The other way that twice a week helped -- rather unexpectedly because I'd already been going twice a week before this happened -- is that I've ended up making some major changes with the family of origin (impetus was provided by other events although current T was supportive and propelled me along).

I think if I weren't going twice a week, the whole situation would be super overwhelming (more than it is) and I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be half functional -- the ongoing drama from it has ensured that I'll need to stick around with twice-a-week therapy at least for several more months. Once the dust settles down from that, I might be able to switch back to once a week with a lot more confidence (in terms of my being able to get by).