If you know that you could benefit from some therapy or counselling, or you at least strongly suspect as such, then it’s something that you might want to try and make room for in your life. However, it can be challenging to do so, because you will often find that there are so many other things in life that can get in the way, despite how important you know it to be. This can be especially difficult if you have a lot going on and a particularly tight schedule.
That situation can be tough, but there are some concrete steps you can take to work around it and improve upon it. Let’s take a look now at some of the best ways to find space and time for therapy sessions when you have a tight schedule.
Plan Ahead
As far as possible, you’ll want to consider planning ahead. Of course, you probably already plan your days, weeks and months, but you may want to look into it even more closely if you are keen to fit therapy into your schedule. The reason we say this straight up is that a lot of people feel they don’t have time for therapy, only to discover when they look more closely that they actually do. So, it’s worth taking a deeper look at your schedule and seeing whether anything could change here.
It might be that you could move things around more than you had thought, and that can often be enough to help you attend therapy, even if it’s only once a month or every other week, which brings us on to our next point.
Consider Different Frequencies
Although the optimal amount of counselling for most people is weekly that doesn’t mean it’s the only way to do it or the only way that works. You can still get a lot out of therapy and experience profound insight and benefits by attending therapy once a month or once a fortnight, for instance. And for many people, as we have alluded to above, it might be that this is a lot more achievable than attending therapy every week.
So consider this as a possibility as you try to figure this all out. You might find that you can get hold of a lot of therapists who are more than happy to take this approach, so don’t discount it until you have raised the topic with a few therapists and counsellors.
Get Online Therapy
Part of the difficulty of attending a weekly therapy session for many people is that you need to find the time to get there, park your car, and so on. It might be that this extra time is just too much for your schedule, or that you are unable to make it work, or perhaps you just don’t think you’ll have the energy to do that week after week.
If that’s the case for you, then all is not lost. You could simply consider getting some online therapy, which is a very effective way to get the counselling that you are looking for without having to travel anywhere.
More and more people are taking this approach, and it is definitely a good way to ensure you can make time for your therapy. So it’s well worth thinking about if you have not tried it already.
Try Telephone Counselling
In addition to online therapy, many counsellors offer their services over the phone, so this might also be something you want to consider. Some people find it difficult to talk on the phone, but if you are trying to make counselling work as a part of your regular schedule, it could be that this is the way to do so. And you might be surprised at how soon you can get comfortable with it as an experience. In fact, a lot of people actually prefer to have counselling in this way anyway.
Telephone counselling again is growing in popularity, so you can probably find someone in your area who is happy to provide it for you. And it could be that this is the solution you need to be able to attend therapy more regularly.
As you can see, there are options you can consider if you are trying to attend therapy, but have a tight schedule. Make sure that you are thinking about these things if you want to get serious about making therapy a part of your everyday life.
