Yes, I'm really very lucky that things have worked out this way with my current therapy. I don't think once a week is always superficial, and I think a lot of people do well and do useful work in therapy with once per week, but I agree with you that for me once a week felt like constant catch-up. Not so much in the sense of being caught up on everyday goings on; at once per week my therapist often had no idea about many basic things I had going on, because the only way to go into any depth with trickier material was to ignore a lot of day to day things. But definitely in the sense that just getting to the point of being ready to talk about certain things would take up almost all of the time, and it often felt like starting over again every week.

I'm curious why it sounds like you don't think the decision about staying at twice per week is up to you, or is at least primarily your therapist's decision rather than yours?