How Many Therapy Sessions do I Need per Month?

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How Many Therapy Sessions do I Need per Month?

Alright, so how many sessions you need per month depends on a few things.

ONE. Your Presenting Concerns

What your presenting concerns are depends on the frequency and urgency of your rescheduling of your sessions. What does that look like? How urgent is it?

Where are your presenting issues on Maslow's scale of hierarchy of needs, the lowest ones are you know, your basic needs to your highest ones, being executive functioning, like the higher order stuff? How severe are sort of like your symptoms?

But then what's tricky about all of that is your capacity and your financing, right? So:

TWO. Your capacity to pay for therapy or your insurance plan.

How much can you afford and how much can your insurance cover?

So with all that in mind, you know, we want to stay as flexible as possible with you and build some sort of framework.
And then how much do you want to come to therapy, right? How much will your schedule allow?

THREE. How much do you want to come to therapy?

How much would be too much therapy, how much do you want to process in between, how fast do you want to see progress?

Generally, people see the best progress coming once a week, then increasing intervals once they feel they are on the right track.

Also from 15 years of psychotherapy practice, and based on returning clients who come back for the same problem, please don’t stop coming to therapy once you start feeling better as most people do.

Once you start feeling better you can really start working on yourself, so your baseline of emotions, moods can increase standard deviations higher than ever before, so you can have a buffer.

Also, therapy is about elevating yourself, not fixing yourself.

I believe we all carry trauma in our bodies, to liberate ourselves from that trauma, and to think long term goals aligning with values and passions and joy is where we want to go with therapy.

Money helps and money creates liberty and helps liberate others also.

The more we can help ourselves, the more we can help others. I believe also we are all creative, and this needs to be unleashed for meaningful, playful, fun, joyful lives.

Summary of How Many Therapy Sessions do I Need per Month

Comprehensive Scope:

This explanation highlights that the "right" number of sessions is not a fixed number but depends on a multifaceted assessment. It touches on:

Presenting Concerns:

Urgency and severity of symptoms (e.g., comparing it to Maslow's hierarchy of needs).

Practical Constraints: Capacity, financing, insurance coverage, and schedule flexibility.

Client Autonomy:

How much the client wants to come to therapy.

Don't come to therapy for your therapist come to therapy for you.

You'd be surprised how many caregivers start to care for their therapist.

Realistic Expectations:

Canada Online Therapy encourages a realistic expectation that the frequency can change over time (starting weekly if urgent, then potentially reducing to maintain but keep progress going).

Flexibility: Canada Online Therapy encourages focusing on being "flexible as possible" and "building a framework" assuring our clients that the process will be tailored to their needs.

Canada Online Therapy bases our practice on:

Holistic Approach:

We successfully assist clients to balance the practical considerations (cost, insurance, schedule) with their clinical needs (symptoms, urgency) and the personal motivation ("How much do you want to come?").

Canada Online Therapy’s approach is we do not chase clients, we allow clients to come when they need, without judgement or without expectation.

Encouraging & Inspiring:

Canada Online Therapy hopes to model a motivational message ("therapy is about elevating yourself, not fixing yourself," "unleashed for meaningful, playful, fun, joyful lives") that is powerful and speaks to the long-term benefits of self-improvement.

Simplifying Psychotherapy:

Our goal as Canada Online Therapy is to make psychotherapy accessible.

For example, with Maslow's hierarchy of needs and the idea of creating an "emotional buffer" we want to explain complex psychological concepts simply.

Lending our Expertise to the General Public:

Our experience is for clients not to stop therapy just because you start feeling better is a crucial piece of insight that clients often need to hear so you can elevate yourself, work on your long term goals.

First Published Sunday Nov 9 2025

Lee Park, RCT 25-002, MACP, BPsych Hons

Owner, Canada Online Therapy

www.canadaonlinetherapy.com

lee(at)canadaonlinetherapy.com

Phone: (514) 746 4673
Fax: (800) 808 6629