My view is that if a client is turning up week after week and paying the therapist then they must be getting something out of it. They wouldn't return otherwise. If a therapist doesn't like the stage a client is at ;which might be pre-contemplation ( thinking about thinking about changing.) then it's up to the therapist to manage that, they can always terminate a client if they don't want to work with a client who isn't ready to make changes.

If a client doesn't seem to be "working" in therapy then maybe the therapist and client are on different pages about what the goals actually are.