(((((((((((((( squiggle )))))))))))) I have purposely stayed away from reading this thread until now, because the questions in yr title are so fearsome for me.

You say, >> If you felt good one day when you went for a doctor visit, would you tell the doctor, "I feel good today, so I think I am healed."
A doctor no; a physical therapist, who bends you into knots and hurts you to heal you, I could definitely see saying that.
But of course in either case (T or PT) it would be equally bogus.

>> I feel that if I don't have some major issue to talk about in a session, I must be 'healed' and don't need my therapist anymore. Nothing could be further from the truth. This is a lesson that I am learning.
can you say some more about what you have learned here? This summer I am able to go weekly instead of 2-3 intervals, and I worry when I haven't had big events between sessions, if that makes sense.

>> "Why do I not feel that I deserve to be in therapy?"
I developed some answers for this and when T refuted them, one after the next, it was as if she was speaking in another language. I told her, I know what you just said was in English, and I can recognize that it is a sentence, but I cannot understand it.
We will have to work on that some more...

thanks for starting this thread and for all the responses it has provoked