My practice, in numbers · 2017 – 2026
How long does therapy take?
It's the question I get most before a first session. Every case is different, but ten years of practice give a clear picture: here is what over 300 people and nearly 4,000 sessions say, counted without names.
The processes
How many sessions
Among people who come more than once, the median (the case in the middle) is 7 sessions. And of those who reach a fourth session, 71% stay through the eighth, which is roughly when change starts to show.
The people
Who comes
More women than men come: 66% of the 127 people with age and gender on record. They come at every age, from teenagers to people over 45; the age shown is the one they had when they arrived.
See the figure by age and gender
Teenagers, 17 or under on arrival: 12 in total, 5 girls and 7 boys. The figure shows 127 of the 194 people who sustain a process of three sessions or more. For the other 63 I don't have age or gender on record, so they don't appear. 4 more fall into an age-and-gender cell with fewer than five people: that cell is marked "—" and not drawn, so no one can be singled out.
See how long people stay, by who
How long processes last, by who
Each row is the median of its group: calendar days between the first and last session, and number of sessions. These are processes, not people: a couple's process is one, classified by whoever opened the file, so these totals won't match the figure above.
By gender
By age on arrival
By type of process
Counts the 180 processes of three sessions or more. Groups under ten processes are shown paler: a median of that few cases doesn't hold up a conclusion. 1 process is left out for falling into a group of fewer than five.
The office
Where and when
Of the 180 processes of three sessions or more, 2 have no setting on record. Of the other 178, 60% were at the office, 30% online and 10% mixed the two; most are still in person. I've held sessions Monday to Friday between 7:00 and 22:00, and Saturdays between 8:00 and 13:00. Those are hours when sessions have happened, not the ones I have free today: that I tell you when you write.
See the months of the year and the hours of the week
There are more sessions in May, July and February and fewer in January, September and October. Counted over 2022–2025, the years with a complete calendar.
The busiest hour of these ten years: Monday at 18:00.
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If you're a therapist, these figures let you compare with your own practice. And if you carry cases and want to think them through with others, have a look at the supervision group (in Spanish).
How it's counted
Median, not mean. A few years-long processes would pull the average well above what happens to most people.
Who goes into each figure. The four bands and the header figures count everyone; the header ones are rounded. The time medians leave out the people who came only once: there's no "how long" to measure for a single visit. The figures for setting, age and gender, and duration by group require three sessions or more; processes of one or two sessions are left out of those and counted under "Initial work". With one or two visits there's no pattern to count yet.
The "of those who reach a fourth session" percentage is calculated over the processes that went past three, not over the total.
Age and gender. The age is the one at the first session, so that ten years of people are comparable. An age-and-gender cell with fewer than five people isn't drawn, and a group with fewer than five doesn't enter the tables: a median over that few cases would come close to identifying the person.
The hours grid. The darker the cell, the more sessions. The color doesn't grow at the same pace as the count: if it did, the three or four busiest hours would leave all the others nearly blank.
Processes and people. The tables by group count processes: a couple's is one, classified by whoever opened the file. The age-and-gender figure counts both people separately. That's why their totals don't match.
Data as of 2026-10-10. Nothing on this page identifies anyone; only counts, medians and percentiles reach it, computed before leaving the practice's own system.