My T responds to what I bring up in session and relies on me to tell him things I want to discuss. I interpret this as his letting me determine where our sessions lead and trusting me to bring up what is most important for me that day (because he can't know).

This approach also relieves him of having to remember everything for every client.

When I share good news with T, he is very willing to celebrate my success. I tend to share bad stuff more than successes. The bad stuff he helps with, the good stuff he celebrates.

There have been a few times when I brought up a topic, and T said, "I thought you were never going to tell!" So clearly he was eager to know what had happened, but felt he had to keep his place and let me bring it up. They must have to use quite a bit of restraint sometimes!