grey mouse, your first therapy session was a typical one. It's called "an intake." The therapist asks the patient a number of questions to get to know him/her. Every new therapist I've ever been to has done that. I doubt that the next session will be that way, though, since your information will get passed on. You and your therapist might talk about goals and expectations or things along that line. So, that will be like starting to get your treatment plan put in place.

I'm not sure why the doc was going to have you call a crisis center, if you needed help. That might be this place's standard policy or maybe the doc was going to be out of town or something!