Sometimes therapists have to choose between one hard topic and another hard topic. When my therapist would read my journals she would go through and pick out one or two things in what I wrote to talk about. Not because she was ignoring the rest but because of the time it takes to spend on things. Also sometimes thing I write about my therapist would want to run ideas and so on past her supervisor before talking with me about something, or do her own research so that she had resources to give me and other times its because my therapist would want me to tell her things face to face instead of writing it down and having her read it (I can write up a storm but talking the words don't always come she thought it was time that I start saying things to her not at her in my journals.) and still other times she would read my journals but when we got together something else needed to be taken care of. For example some time ago I had wrote her a letter explaining my self hypnosis/relaxation work. we made plans to start including it in my sessions. At my last session we had made plans to do another relaxation tape. In between then and when I saw her I was notified about the upcoming yearly review court hearing and some things about my sons treatment plans two rocks - take care of working towards the end of a nightly nightmare or take care of the present issues of court and my son. Given the choice between dealing with the past or the present the present wins first place and the past wins second place.

Maybe she wants you to tell her things instead of just writing them especially about this kind of thing. You might just have to tell her face to face you want to talk about this.

Maybe timing is the problem -. Sometimes certain topics take more than 50 minutes. Ask her if you can schedule a longer time slot so that you can talk about this.

The friends relationship is from the present time frame issues and the other issues stem from past experiences. Maybe she is choosing to keep or get your present on track before tackling the harder and more in depth work that stems from the past.