YES!!! This is exactly how I feel too. At my very first meeting with T, he said "only you know what you need to heal," and I took that so much to heart and have found that is true. I do know. A significant part of that knowledge lies in my unconscious. I think therapy has improved my ability to listen to and communicate with my unconscious. My T told me once that he and the lawyers "were in awe" of my ability to seek out what I needed to heal (vis a vis my split from H). I think my ability to do that isn't that special--we all have that, if we can unearth it--but my willingness to trust my unconscious is what has helped so much.

dreamseeker, I am glad you reached this place of trust. I think working with dreams can help give confidence in the unconscious. I have heard that some Ts will not work with dreams. That seems such a missed opportunity to build client trust in themselves! (BTW, my T never tries to tell me what a dream might mean. He just asks questions as we work through it. If I suggest a meaning, he might say, "yes, that is what I was thinking too," but that is about as far as he goes. I think he believes strongly that I am the one who knows what my dreams mean.)