For those of you who this applies to....

Has seeing your T more than once a week caused more problems or less as far as attachment goes?

[Chummy2]

I haven't seen T more than once a week, they don't do that at this practise. But I've seen PrevT for more than a couple of weeks in between and there were even months between sessions and that didn't make the attachment problems less. I doubt seeing her more than once a week will make it worse. Maybe it could make the problems less. Maybe then there would be more time to sort it out and less time to doubt about it on my own.

I'm interested to hear others experiences.

[Elio]

I see my T 2x a week and it has helped. I've been debating about increasing to 3 x week but not sure on that. It seems if I go more than 4 days between sessions, there is a bit of losing the connection. The main reason for wanting to go 3 x week is purely because I want more of her time. I know it is an indulgence. T is open to discussing in, doesn't mean she'd agree that it is appropriate once we talked it through. Her initial response was that if it wasn't harming anything, why isn't wanting it enough to have it. So, don't know if I'll increase or not. I do think that if we were to increase and she was to think that it was doing harm and request us to return to 2x a week, I'd struggle with that decision; another factor in the decision.

Moving to 2x a week was very helpful in my case.

[ruh roh]

I went twice a week for about a year and a half, until recently. I needed to go more often because of things happening in my life, and now I don't. So far, the transition to once a week has been just fine. I'm glad I did the twice a week while I needed it. I'm not sure I understand the attachment part of your question, but in my case it was not a problem to increase or decrease.

[DP_2017]

Yes it increased my attachment but I don't think that was soley this reason,lots of things factor into why I am super attached

It helped me be less anxious for sure, having 2 times to get things sorted but my T only allows it during crisis times so I am now back to weekly and struggling already

[ElectricManatee]

I'm not sure what you mean by problems with attachment. Seeing my T twice a week has made me feel closer and more attached to her, but I see that as a benefit, not a detriment. I am making far more progress in feeling more stable and dealing with my life more productively than I would if I were still going once a week. I haven't felt any pressure from my T to go back to once a week, but I'm guessing I will want to once I feel ready (and once some of the stressful things going on in my life start to taper off).

[stopdog]

I saw two different ones each week. They were both semi-retired (the first one is retiring for good in the next month if what she wrote me was true) and one worked at the beginning of the week and one worked at the end. I found it interesting to see how different they were even though both professed to do psychodynamic. I would not say I was all that attached to them certainly not in any way where I wanted to spend more time with either of them.

[toomanycats]

It has reduced my attachment-related issues.

This is a bit different from my last T, who was unethical, and our attachment highly insecure and damaging -- seeing him multiple times a week did nothing to calm my anxieties.

But, with current T, who is very ethical with good boundaries, seeing him twice a week has lessened my anxieties and reduced any sort of obsessive fears between sessions. I actually find myself making identifiable progress that is clearly directly related to/linked to the developing security with him.

Edit to Add:
With ExT, it was like, the more I had of him, the more I needed. I grew more desperate.

I was really vigilant about catching if that would happen with new T as well. It has not I definitely still go through highly anxious times (typically when something has caused a rupture between us or is upsetting me in my outside life), but we do actually work THROUGH it and resolve it rather than it all just building and building into obsession.

I have been going 2x a week for over a year and recently we have been talking about the possibility of me going down to once a week.

I will say that it has definitely increased my attachment to her but I don't think that has been a bad thing, just really uncomfortable at times. We have spent a lot of time talking about that attachment, about my fears, and working through those. I know I can trust her. I know she is safe. I don't know how I will handle the time when she is not in my life anymore but I think that, when/if that time comes, I'll be ok.

[kecanoe]

I can't really say. I am not sure that it made a difference. It did keep me alive, though.

[starfishing]

I increased from once to twice-weekly therapy a few weeks ago, and so far it's been nothing but helpful. I'm not entirely sure what you mean by attachment problems, but it hasn't had any ill effects that I've noticed. It's a bit more intense in some ways, but it also really helps to be able to parse more material in therapy as opposed to dealing solo all week with whatever's been unearthed in session.

[Wonderfalls]

I have good insurance and a secondary insurer, but they wouldn't cover more than once a week, if that. I've always had appointments every other week for any of my therapists. Are you all on insurance? Does it have no limit on therapeutic sessions?

[kecanoe]

Originally Posted by Wonderfalls

I have good insurance and a secondary insurer, but they wouldn't cover more than once a week, if that. I've always had appointments every other week for any of my therapists. Are you all on insurance? Does it have no limit on therapeutic sessions?

I'm not OP, but my insurance covers one session a day with any particular T, and will cover a session with T1 and T3 on the same day.

[NP_Complete]

My insurance will pay for one session a week and a group session a week. I'm going 3x/week right now with my individual therapist and am paying for the extra sessions out of pocket.

[wheeler]

I've always gone once a week. And then when I started with current T we increased it to twice a week. And then when I had a terrible reaction (hospitalized) to a medication that I was abruptly taken off from, we increased it to 3 times a week. This has been going on since last March.

I can't tell if I made so much progress because of the increase in sessions or because this T has been extremely helpful. Or maybe a combination of both.

Last month we did talk about going back down to twice a week, but for now as I continue to benefit from 3X week, I will stay with that.

[waterlogged]

My insurance covers 1 appointment per day. My therapist is out of network and so insurance covers 70% until we hit our out of pocket max and then it’s covered at 100%. Our stars has mental health parity regulations so there’s no difference in coverage between mental health and other medical care. I’m in full psychoanalysis and see my therapist 5x/week.

[starfishing]

Originally Posted by Wonderfalls

I have good insurance and a secondary insurer, but they wouldn't cover more than once a week, if that. I've always had appointments every other week for any of my therapists. Are you all on insurance? Does it have no limit on therapeutic sessions?

I use insurance for therapy, and while I worry that they'll eventually balk at paying for twice a week, there haven't been any issues so far--and my therapist says he has other patients with the same insurance who go twice a week who haven't had any problems.