Hmm...this one kind of baffles me. My therapist always kind of structured sessions the opposite way. Therapy for me was about being able to reflect on the past, to understand it better in order to be better able to make positive changes in the future. The "work" in therapy was deep thinking and bringing to light all that had been buried and not dealt with properly in the past. Make peace with your past so you can better face your future. The sessions themselves were only a starting point to me, something to stir my brain and get it working...T had a very different way of seeing things and I had to let go of my style of thinking in order to let something more positive in. A lot of thinking and straining the brain...so I definitely spent a lot of my time devoted to my therapy between sessions. I suppose eventually you would want to move forward from the past, but I would think first you'd have to face that past in order to get to the other side. I'm guessing your T has a different way of doing things. That would have to be very difficult. Have you discussed it with your T?