One of the problems I've had with my therapist is that she won't push me at all. She's very respectful of my integrity, and I do appreciate that, but because I have excellent avoidance skills and am ridiculously afraid of bringing up the topics I need to talk about, our sessions tend to be more friendly chitchat than what I imagine therapy "ought to" be like. Three weeks ago, I asked her to push me more and be just a little bit more insistent on my telling her about my real issues. She promised she would, but in my next session things were pretty much back to normal. My next session is tomorrow, and I frankly have no idea what to expect. :-/

I feel a little awkward about jumping into the conversation here - I haven't lurked for long enough to pick up all the unwritten rules of the forums, I'm afraid, but I hope I'm not breaking them (no, the rules, not the forums!) by doing this.