One session can create insight or an important shift, but meaningful pattern change generally requires continuity, repetition and the opportunity to practise and consolidate new responses. For anxiety-focused work, Adelaide Strategic Therapy generally recommends six sessions because this gives enough continuity to identify the patterns maintaining the problem, notice how they show up across situations, practise different responses, apply them in real life and consolidate change over time. The six-session structure exists to give the work enough continuity to be useful — not to keep you in therapy longer than necessary. The aim is focused work over a defined period, not therapy for the sake of therapy.