if you have a connection, sarah, i'd stick with her. i got a lot of this when i first started seeing my pdoc - he had only graduated from pdoc school the previous year so was very, very new. a lot of my friends thought i should go to someone more experienced.

but hey, i'm still with him 4 years later, and i appreciate how much more willing he was to give me time and help me than some other more experienced, phd types. i can understand your parents want to make sure that this is a good 'investment', but them continually nagging at you isn't helping.

could you talk to your T about this, at all? see if she has any ideas on what to do? maybe you could have a session where your parents came in and she just debriefed them on the (very vague) areas you cover, and let them know you're making progress. they might back off afterwards?