A good therapist will not let us continue with old thoughts and behaviors we are "comfortable" with if they are not in our best interests. For instance, I am the queen of repression. It is what I do easily and without thought, but my t challenges me each and every time I do this so that now I have gotten to where I use repression as a coping skills less and less often.

They would not be helping us if they let us continue old patterns that really aren't working for us, even if we "like" them.