Hello RoadRunner ... I hope this new T works out great for you. I think most of us know what you mean. You really want them to see what is going on deep inside and they know that they have to work for that information.
My T seems to get his most useful information by just asking general questions and when he gets an answer he is looking for he will drill down on that or he might even wait till the next visit to get more detail.
He once told me something about how he wants find out what is behind the person he is working with no matter how hard they try to act as if certain things do not bother them.
I told him that a lot of his patients have been training themselves to be perceived as normal much longer than most Ts have been learning how to get to the parts of them that are not normal. He told me that the key is that we (the Ts) know this. He said if they did not then we the patients might as well just talk to strangers in the park.
I truly hope you new TDoc is like this.