I agree with those saying that multiple sessions a week and the couch are just some classic tools (actually a few analysts follow them strictly these days). The actual analysis is more looking at your current feelings/behavior and how those relate to and potentially derive from early life experiences. They also use transference heavily and like to work with aspects of the interactions between client and analyst.

I had a stint with psychoanalysis in the past but unfortunately the T turned out pretty incompetent and actually very manipulative, some might consider it even abusive. I know a few analysts from other sources that look much more decent. When I started mine, I was specifically looking for psychoanalysis, mostly out of curiosity (I did not have significant problems at the time but generally like to analyze myself and see how elements of my personality, behavior, experiences etc are connected). The T I was seeing does one session per week with most clients and has a coach but apparently uses it only with a few few clients. I never had problems talking in therapy but tried the coach once because I was curious - I personally really did not like it, it inhibited me (while normally I had no inhibitions) because it just felt so unnatural to interact that way. I like eye contact with anyone and normal conversations.

I did that therapy for ~a year and the progression in it that was becoming more analysis-like was the transference dissections. I liked it initially but then figured the T was extremely limited and actually distorted, so I stopped.

I don't know if going multiple times a week can help with opening up more... I guess it can if the client gets more comfortable and relaxed, trusts the T and the therapy more etc. What I've read on this forum more is that it helps some people who struggle between weekly sessions with obsessions, attachment, not having access to the T etc. I think it can also exacerbate obsessions for some. I would consider carefully before committing to many times a week - maybe try for a month or so. I think many Ts use that argument as a business strategy to make more out of clients and make it more secure for them (they know the same client will bring more money each week).