I think I have a different perspective on what the T might be doing:

It sounds like the T is trying to help you be real, and to accept yourself as you are. It sounds like you put up a front in an attempt to hide whatever you perceive your faults to be. He might be picking up the areas that he's aware of where you take part in some self-deception? Like... although we can pick and latch on to our good qualities, it's imporant to recognize that those good qualities aren't perfect either? And that we need to accept the bumps in the road and how they helped make us whatever we are?

Ugh, I really don't think my point is coming out very well in words.

Either way, it can take me a few days before I really start to process anything that I talk about with my T. I think that's normal!