Wanting to feel better about your life and make improvements in areas you choose are reasons to be in therapy, to get help with that. Wanting to know yourself better is a reason too, and that can mean challenging your self-perceptions.

I think that the 'usual amount of anxiety' in humans is not one fixed amount, but a continuum, and we might be in therapy to move ourselves to a place along that continuum that feels better to us.

Maybe your T is encouraging you to accept you as you are, and even your anxiety, as you move along to where you want to be.