Therapy
Why attending regularly tends to support progress in therapy, particularly in the early months.
Consistency is one of the more reliable factors in whether therapy helps. This does not mean you can never miss a session, and life happens. It means that regular contact, particularly at the start, tends to support the kind of change that most clients are hoping for.
Emotionally Focused Individual Therapy (EFIT) begins with establishing a secure base, a relationship in which you feel safe enough to explore your emotions. Safety develops through repeated experience. Seeing the same person regularly, at a steady time, allows trust to build, and trust makes it possible to approach more vulnerable feelings.
Sessions build on one another. When they are spread far apart, a good deal of time can go to catching up, and the emotional thread from one session to the next can be lost. Weekly sessions early on allow us to deepen what we begin, and we can adjust the frequency as things stabilize.
Change tends to happen in everyday life, and consistent sessions help you bring what you notice back to therapy while it is fresh. Small practices, such as noticing a reaction or pausing before responding, are easier to maintain with regular support.
Practical constraints are real, and so is avoidance. Sometimes a person misses sessions when therapy begins to touch something tender. If that happens, it is useful to talk about it, because it is often a meaningful part of the process and not a failure.
Most clients begin weekly, and we talk about frequency as we go. More about getting started is on the new client page.
A free 15-minute consultation call is a low-pressure way to start and to see whether we are a good fit.
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