Rainbow, you've posted before about having unresolved "mommy" issues that you want to resolve in therapy. This seems as fine a reason as any to be in therapy. I think lots of clients work on parental issues.

Has your therapist given you an indication that she thinks you shouldn't be in therapy? I think this would be important to discuss if it is weighing on you. I think it is not uncommon to feel that one's problems don't matter and that one should just "buck up" and deal with it alone. But the truth is, therapists can help us heal, and wanting to heal is a good reason to go to therapy.

I also remember once you said that you thought you were too critical of your children. I know this is not what you are working on in therapy now, but perhaps it is another possible topic for the future, perhaps fitting under the "self improvement" category. I think self improvement is also a very valid reason to be in therapy. (I wish my own mom had gone to therapy to improve in this area!)

I am not sure I really "need" therapy in the same way I did once I started with my T. I really enjoy being with him and find our sessions helpful. He is a positive force in my life--is that enough to be in therapy? I do sometimes feel guilty about being there when my problems are not major at this time. But I don't see him as often as I used to, and we are starting work on some issues from my teen years, which I do feel are important. Yet they are not keeping me from functioning acceptably in life. But dealing them will help me heal more fully and be more "whole." Do I "need" to do work in this area in order to survive in life? Probably not. But I "want" to do work in this area to be more whole and healed and happy. I think that's an OK reason to be in therapy. Also, I am starting back to school in the first step of a major career transition. I think there are bound to be stresses, and it will be great to have T as a support in my life during this time. I "want" him to be there for me, but I wouldn't die or anything if he wasn't. I would just be sad and miss him tremendously.

Rainbow, since you have a specific issue you seem to be working on in therapy (the mommy thing), you could always work on that for a while, and after dealing with it satisfactorily in therapy, reassess if you should continue.