I have reduced my sessions from 1/week to 1/every other week for both financial and therapy-related reasons (didn't think I needed every week). For 6 months of the past year, I've been uninsured and thought that paying $700 month for weekly therapy was just too much. I could have afforded to do so, but I travel once or twice each month for work and that often made it every other week for default. Now that I'm back on insurance, I'm loosely at every week but can cancel when I travel or otherwise don't feel like I need it. Things have been stressful in the past couple of months and my work requires intellectual focus and the emotional aspects of it are similar to vicarious trauma, or they are vicarious trauma. Therapy helps me take better care of myself in other ways.

My T, who is about the least controlling or judgmental person I know, has no problems with me canceling sessions for travel or for financial reasons. He will preserve a weekly time for me no matter what, and that helps me cancel within a day or plan not to attend if I'm going to be out of town. I know different T's have different policies about cancellations and all you can do is make sure you know what it is and work with it, but if you think it would help you in any way to reduce your sessions, why not try it? You can always go back to weekly if it doesn't work out, and maybe saving the $$ will give you other ways to save or whatever, and lead to your sessions being more efficient.