Yup. I have taken lots and lots of college psychology classes and have myself been in therapy on and off for over 20 years. One of the hardest things on heart for me is taking a comprehensive psychological evaluation because some of my courses dealt with the behind the scenes of psychological tests and testing requirements and styles. so I know which questions are just there to fill space, which ones are the validity scores, why they are worded the way they are and so on. I sit there and my brain automatically switches into analysis the test questions instead of my just doing the test. So I end up having to take mini breaks to clear my head when ever the learning kicks in instead of the just doing.

As for CBT and second gussing my therapists well Here in the USA all therapy uses CBT which is mainly just finding out what the persons problems are, brainstorming and coming up with goals to work on and then achieving those goals to take care of the problems.

And a part of a therapist job is to point own when they see their client slipping into thoughs and behaviors where the therapist does not feel they should be going or that thought or behavior needs some work on.

Sometimes I can see where the conversation is going and so one of the first things I do is that I let my therapists know that I do have background in attending college psych classes and so on.

one therapist SKR got real good at being spontanious as in mixing topics so that I could not put up a wall against where she wanted the conversation to go.

My present therapist is also spontanious where I never know what we are gonig to be talking about that day because we talk about so many different things in my sessions. each one of my sessions don't center on one specific topic. If I am having a problem that day that is what we talk about, if she sees me as going down the wrong thoughts and directions she flat out tells me - "Don't go there, that is not where you want to go" and so on.

Basically my therapists and I always have the type of therapy relationship where we can say anything and everything to each other that way my education and avoidance skills and so on don't interfere with my therapy programs.

Suggestion - talk with your therapist and let that professional know you are having this problem so the two of you can work on solutions that will enable you to benefit from your therapy program. Why pay mega bucks to a therapist who cannot get past the walls of education and avoidance and so on right. You are the consumer and so you are in charge of what you want to get out of what you are buying. So talk with your therapist and set up some thing that will let her know when you are second quessing him/her and so on so you will get the most for your money if you want to think of it this way.

So what comes next after recognizing you do this?

100% honesty with your therapist as to what is happening.

hang in there