Re: How often do you have your therapy session? » lookdownfish

Posted by Dinah on November 12, 2003, at 17:11:13

In reply to How often do you have your therapy session?, posted by lookdownfish on November 12, 2003, at 16:52:34

I go twice a week now, though I keep wanting to go down to three times every two weeks. I think that spacing would be sufficient.
I find it helps a lot in two ways. First, there is more continuity. A week seems like such a long time to me, and I was usually unable to keep the theme of the prior session in mind. There was more stopping and starting. With twice a week, I can continue almost where we left off, and both of us pretty well remember it and I still have an emotional connection to it. That lets us go deeper into topics than if we had to start over again.
The second way it helps is that my therapy is to a large degree supportive in nature. Before we went to twice a week, I'd get way more upset about things between sessions, have more meltdowns, and call him more between sessions. Now I feel like I can hold on for a few days till I see him next, no matter (almost) how I feel.
But I think that maybe Monday-Friday-Wednesday would accomplish the same goals.

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How often do you have your therapy session? lookdownfish 11/12/03
Re: How often do you have your therapy session? karen_kay 11/12/03
Oh, I only go once a week right now.. (nm) karen_kay 11/12/03
Re: How often do you have your therapy session? » lookdownfish Dinah 11/12/03
Re: How often do you have your therapy session? » lookdownfish DaisyM 11/12/03
Re: How often do you have your therapy session? » lookdownfish fallsfall 11/12/03
Re: How often do you have your therapy session? » lookdownfish Poet 11/13/03
Re: How often do you have your therapy session? lookdownfish 11/13/03
Re: How often do you have your therapy session? Deafmom 11/13/03
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