I’m from the UK and was told no to having twice weekly sessions from my ex-T last year.

His explanation was that most counselling bodies within the UK do not believe that more than one session a week is anymore therapeutically helpful than once a week and for some clients can actually cause problems.

He said that it doesn’t give some clients enough time to properly process what has been discussed between each session and often encourages reliance on the T rather than taking more responsibility for themselves which is what therapy is supposed to be about.

He also worried about over attachment issues and whether the need for wanting more sessions was actually to ‘do’ therapy or just another chance for me to feel a connection with him as I lacked that with anyone else in my life.

He was spot on with every point and although I was resentful at the times, looking back his insight was much better than mine and he made the best decision to help me long term.