Hmmmm.......it is possible that you seem at first like there really arent too many deeper issues and you came for a certain reason and then when that is resolved you'd be fine. He didnt realize you had deeper issues b/c you present so "together."

Unless, as Echoes and Christina said, he does only short term therapy.

Im saying that b/c that is what happened to me. I came to my t to discuss fasmily stuff with my kids and H. Was going for a short while every other week, then deeper issues and behviors came up and she diagnosed me with bpd and we are doing completely different work. But I was seeing her for 8 mos already when that happened. She said I was functioning so well she didnt realize. Maybe your t doesnt realize, no matter what you have said, that there are deeper issues to get to.

I didnt handle it in any particular way. But since he said that, why not ask him if there are deeper things to get to can you still come to him even it takes a while? That is, if you like him and want to continue with him.