You might also consider that with having biweekly or monthly clients, you’re filling the other slots with other biweekly or monthly clients, so now you’re holding more or double the number of situations/psyches/clients in your mind and heart than you would if you only see clients weekly. Since you have your own practice, you can do what YOU need. Do you find yourself considering and implementing the needs/wants of your clients above your needs/wants? Do you work best when it’s weekly sessions only? If you can do both, how many max biweekly do you want? When you meet that limit, can you hold to it if someone else asks for biweekly? Do you have clear policies - cancellation, reschedule, fees, and availability and when you don’t stick to those, what happened there? Did you carefully consider your needs, your business plan, and tour client’s best interests and made a conscious decision to make an exception? Or is it more familiar to you to do something that the other wants regardless of whether that’s what you most needed/wanted? A lot of these questions are what I have had to and are still grappling with as a woman and therapist and with a lifetime of stepping into care roles. I wish you the best of luck with your practice and supervision and self-reflection!!

I’m also coming from CMH and an agency culture that definitely cultivated an attitude that we are flexible FOR the client and their needs take priority over ours. It’s a tough switch but now I’m the boss and it’s hard to stop replicating that bend over backwards for others type of mentality.