Totally hate getting side tracked. I had one of those sessions. My inner child was holding a lot of "dark stuff". I wanted to unload it, but then when I got to therapy I totally ignored her and talked about happy stuff. I had a major meltdown after the session. Actually contacted my T and we did a do-over the next day. The do-over session helped...but the inner child was not really interested in communicating her stuff after I ignored her. Side tracked sessions really suck because sometimes there is only a small window where the internal and external conditions are right to really share what is inside.