diff --git a/py-polars/polars/dataframe/frame.py b/py-polars/polars/dataframe/frame.py
index 04bc70ecc8f8..7d768e3d400f 100644
--- a/py-polars/polars/dataframe/frame.py
+++ b/py-polars/polars/dataframe/frame.py
@@ -3802,12 +3802,15 @@ def unpack_table_name(name: str) -> tuple[str | None, str | None, str]:
             )
             # note: the catalog (database) should be a part of the connection string
             from sqlalchemy.engine import create_engine
+            from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
+
+            if isinstance(connection, str):
+                engine_sa = create_engine(connection)
+            elif isinstance(connection, Session):
+                engine_sa = connection.connection().engine
+            else:
+                engine_sa = connection.engine  # type: ignore[union-attr]
 
-            engine_sa = (
-                create_engine(connection)
-                if isinstance(connection, str)
-                else connection.engine  # type: ignore[union-attr]
-            )
             catalog, db_schema, unpacked_table_name = unpack_table_name(table_name)
             if catalog:
                 msg = f"Unexpected three-part table name; provide the database/catalog ({catalog!r}) on the connection URI"
diff --git a/py-polars/tests/unit/io/database/test_write.py b/py-polars/tests/unit/io/database/test_write.py
index 3b16a420db12..f79060fe729e 100644
--- a/py-polars/tests/unit/io/database/test_write.py
+++ b/py-polars/tests/unit/io/database/test_write.py
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@
 
 import pytest
 from sqlalchemy import create_engine
+from sqlalchemy.orm import Session
+from sqlalchemy.pool import NullPool
 
 import polars as pl
 from polars.io.database._utils import _open_adbc_connection
@@ -233,3 +235,27 @@ def test_write_database_errors(
             match="unrecognised connection type",
         ):
             df.write_database(connection=True, table_name="misc")  # type: ignore[arg-type]
+
+
+@pytest.mark.write_disk()
+def test_write_database_using_sa_session(tmp_path: str) -> None:
+    df = pl.DataFrame(
+        {
+            "key": ["xx", "yy", "zz"],
+            "value": [123, None, 789],
+            "other": [5.5, 7.0, None],
+        }
+    )
+    table_name = "test_sa_session"
+    test_db_uri = f"sqlite:///{tmp_path}/test_sa_session.db"
+    engine = create_engine(test_db_uri, poolclass=NullPool)
+    with Session(engine) as session:
+        df.write_database(table_name, session)
+        session.commit()
+
+    with Session(engine) as session:
+        result = pl.read_database(
+            query=f"select * from {table_name}", connection=session
+        )
+
+    assert_frame_equal(result, df)