ABSTRACT
Albert Ellis offers two types of therapy sessions for individual patients: half-hour sessions and one-hour sessions. The author have listened to many of these sessions and it seems to him that Ellis works harder and faster in the half-hour sessions than he does in the one-hour sessions. The famous or infamous 50-minute hour was invented for the benefit of therapists rather than for the benefit of clients in that it enabled therapists to have a short break between sessions. However, one finds that certain clients cannot make use of a 50-minute therapy session. Such clients have a low IQ or limited attention span and just become confused if one sees them for 50 minutes. With such clients, experiment with varying the length of therapy sessions. Other flexible uses of therapy include having telephone or Skype sessions, therapy by email, working with structured therapy programmes on CD-Rom, and the old fashioned method of responding to client letters by writing to them.
