Agenda emails, been here too. Advantages were topics were definately raised, could not deny that stuff bothered me, think my T learned a lot about me from these. I think this was the only way for me to get things on the table. Disadvantages were that they created A LOT of extra stress on me before and during the next session. Sometimes when I went to the actual session something else was going on and I would want to discuss that instead. Also, since I was so stressed out about talking about what was on the agenda, I sometimes rushed or glossed over it anyway.

For me...I think doing this for a while was important, helpful in getting me to approach certain topics. I think it was most helpful in that it alerted my T to things that she probably had no idea I was struggling with. Now I to not self-mandate that I talk about certain topics. I allow myself the option of avoiding things if I want to. This seems to be working for me at the moment. My sessions are less stressful now. However I think I had to do the agenda thing at first.