Twice a week therapy?

So after talking to my therapist, they agreed to do twice a week therapy.

Just wondering has anyone had twice a week therapy?
Was it intense? Did it help?

I went twice a week for short periods - I remember
going twice a week for a month, I think.
It was after a really huge thing had happened in my life, partly as a result of therapy. (I stood up for myself, and that resulted in a huge family blow up which was quite dramatic.)

During that time, going to therapy twice a week felt very supportive for me.

I think that for me, it's good that I didn't go twice a week throughout my therapy,because possibly I could have become even more consumed with therapy, and I think it was good to have balance in my life and spending time with friends, hobbies etc. But in the time of crisis it was supportive. I think it totally depends on the person and the circumstances.

I have been going twice a week for about the last 6 months. I have multiple trauma from age 2 through 20 and a lot of things to work through. I do EMDR amongst other therapies with my trauma therapist for depression PTSD and DID. I find it very helpful. Progress is still very slow and I know I have years to go yet but I can't even imagine where I would be if I was only going once a week. Luckily I do not have any attachment type transference issues. I can see we're going more frequently may impact those types of problems.

I go twice a week, sometimes 3x if it's a problem week for me. I used to go 4x a week (with my terrible first T) and then on some Saturdays if she needed the money. My terrible 2nd T had me come in almost every day for 2 hour sessions.

I've been going twice a week for a couple of years. It is more intense than just once a week. I dropped down to once a week for a couple of months because I was worried about my attachment/dependency. However, I was very unhappy during the week & was feeling like I was just struggling until I saw him again. One session he asked me how I was coping with just once a week & I cried & said it was really hard. He asked me if I wanted to go back to twice again & I immediately said yes. I was trying to be more resilient & trying not to need him so much, but I'm not ready yet. I will try again at some point, but I'll do it when my 'inner children' are more settled.

I've gone twice a week for 7 years

i have before, and it helps but it also seems to make me want to go even more..... so i am also ok with going to weekly, we go by how i feel each week if i do 2 or 1 a week

I have considered asking but the only time our s Hercules allow me to see her is after work. With my already busy evening schedule it would be hard plus it would be more time away from my kids. Doing EMDR is thankfully short term. I am leaving work early so I will get home a out the same ti.e as regular work days.

I also went twice a week for several months, albeit with two different Ts (I would see each of them once a week). It was also after a majorly disruptive event in my life. It did feel very supportive to have the double check-in. Around January I transitioned to something in between- I see both of them between 2 and 3 weeks a month, usually 3, and I stagger it so there's never a week when I'm on my own unless one of them is out of town, and there are still some weeks where I see both.

It got a little intense sometimes, and for a while I was caught up a bit in the T vs T dynamic. But mostly it felt very safe and supportive. I sort of miss it.

I have only ever gone twice a week or more. I wouldn't imagine going less frequently when one wants to access deep stuff and move through it with any speed. For me dependency is ok. I believe that the problems that were created during a state of dependency (early childhood) need to be worked with in a state of dependency in order to get any effect. I'm talking about emotional dependency or attachment and not the dependency on therapist to run one' s daily life.

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).

i was ordered to go twice a week for two hours by judge for first month of therapy and it was very intense and disruptive but better than going to rehab full time. that was my only other option. i only go once a week to my T and probation counselor now typically one hour with T and half hour with probation counselor. that is painful enough. proby always sends me for drug tests

I've been going twice a week for about 7 months now. I started going more often on a regular basis because I was dealing with an escalating verbally and emotionally abusive marriage and I started feeling suicidal and felt I needed more support. Some weeks, if I'm having a particularly difficult time I ask for an extra third session. This past week, I had a traumatic event happen and I went 4 times.

I don't know if it's more intense, but it helps me to feel more attached to my therapist. Sometimes I find that attachment frightening, but overall I think it's probably a good thing right now.

I've been going twice a week for almost 4 years, it's super helpful. I have multiple traumas and life in general is a struggle, to have that positive extra reinforcement really helps

I switched to twice a week about a year ago and I think it's better in some ways. There's less "stuff" happening in between sessions so we will pick up topics from the previous session more often and get deeper into them, instead of there always being something new. But there is also more time for lighter conversations, it seems like.

I've been thinking about switching back to once a week though, I don't think I need quite so much support right now and it would be easier on the budget.

PrevT was seeing me twice a week during and immediately after the exploitation by the PDoc. I went twice a week for a several months. I had a few in hospital stays during the first year.

She switched me to once a week sometime later. I remember not being happy about the switch to once a week because I had such anxiety and depression...and I was still trying to figure out what happened to me.

I have had twice a week therapy for years and years. I have DID, and there are a lot of us that need to share our time with our therapist. even twice a week doesnt feel like nearly enough.

I've been in twice a week therapy for almost eight months now. I feel like it's more draining, but I trust my therapists judgement of needing more support.

I understand what you mean by emotional dependency. Im struggling with that too.

Thats how exactly I experienced, once week wasn't helping me because new stuff happened during the week and never had the chance to go into deep stuff.

This was also my experience.

I go three times a week (2 Ts) and have gone as much as 5x per week. I need to go to minimize dissociation and suicidal thoughts. Sometimes I get impatient with how long I have been in therapy (10 years) and that I still seem to need to go multiple times a week, other times I want to go more often.

Overall, it has been helpful. Seeing more than one T is also helpful for me.

If SHE needed the money???!!

I have been going twice a week for about a year. Prior to that, it was once a week for about a year and a half. I think therapy was harder and more consuming at once a week because so much was going on in my life that therapy was mostly mopping up and crisis prevention and it never felt like making any progress. 2x week lessens the intensity of therapy to where it's more productive and also stabilizing. So yes, it helps.