How did your t even know what was going on, before your session? Do i have that correctly? You should have been able to go in there and talk about what you wanted. Not about what he wanted. Thats your basic right in therapy. That was thwarted. Its like they put another layer of feelings on you and said, lets deal with these instead. So - idk about ironic, per se. He is making it about topic B, whereas you wanted topic A.