I truly am spoiled when it comes to therapy. It's painful and sucky, but she makes it as easy as absolutely possible. If it is in her power to make something easier for me to handle, she does. The only drawback I have seen is that I have to be the proactive one in bringing things up. And I don't do that well. So things get avoided often because I just can't bring myself to talk about them. She doesn't force me, even if I ask her to, because she wants me to take the lead. That's just her way of doing things. We are trying out a new strategy soon where I send her the things I want to talk about and she brings them up in appointments. I can then choose to either talk about them or skip them if I feel like I need to. I think (hope) this will solve the problem.