For my therapy we just drifted over whatever came up, if it was important it seemed to have a habit of coming up often! I didn't have an agenda and neither did he, but sometimes there was something obvious in my life that needed addressing other times we just took the conversation wherever it went and some amazing things came up.

Congrats on making your first steps into T. Remember that your first T may not fit you properly and it can take a while to find one that you have good rapport with and works in a way that works for you. I hope you have gotten lucky with your first one!

It is hard work and tears come often and sometimes you feel worse when you leave than when you got there, but the hope is that you learn about yourself and how and why you think things and that you can change these things.

I agree with the journalling, for me it can be as helpful as actually seeing a T as you have to process thing as you write them so it can be very enlightening what you come up with.