Posted by Noa on January 3, 2003, at 17:55:17
In reply to spending a fortune on therapy, posted by Tabitha on December 19, 2002, at 3:03:07
>>>I have the last appt of the day, and my therapist will do 2-3 hour sessions with me. Plus she does phone sessions, yet I've cut down on that. >>>
What makes me uncomfortable about reading this is the vague boundaries--such long sessions and added phone sessions, etc. Most therapists have stricter boundaries, so at least the length and frequency of sessions is predictable. I would think the looseness can cause feelings of greater dependency. Not that a phone contact once in a while for emergencies, or an extra session once in a while for emergencies is not ok--it is. But I think the structure of knowing that you have x sessions per week for x minutes (and I think 2-3 hours is too long) can be reassuring. If they are open-ended, that can be anxiety-provoking, I would think, because how do you know when it is time to end the session? How can you develop a consistent expectation of when the session will end?
FWIW, this is my reaction.
Anyway, as for me---I go to therapy 2x week for 50 mintue sessions. I increased a few years ago, when my depression got really bad. Increasing from 1x/week to 2x/week helped me feel safer to go into difficult stuff.
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