I really like my therapist, and I don't really want to get a new one... but I'm annoyed with her after our last session and I'm not sure what I should do.

I've seen her 10 times now over 3 months, and generally our sessions have followed the format of- she asks me what I've been doing/ how I've been feeling, we discuss how I've been feeling, and whatever stupid things I did in the past week or two and how that relates to the reason I am there, we sometimes do some visualisation but I change the subject pretty quickly because I don't like it, and she'll suggest books/ things for me to listen to/watch that might help.

The last time I saw her was very different. I only see her every two weeks so by the time I get there I usually have a million things I want to talk about. Instead of asking me how I'd been going or what I'd been up to, she straight away asked me if I had decided whether or not I was going to keep coming (we had been discussing this previously because my medicare sessions have run out and I'll have to start paying full price). I said yes, but I was unsure whether it was really working.

She said that was good, but yes something was definitely getting in the way of our sessions, and we had to work past it. She then said she really wanted to persist with the visualisations we were doing, because even though I find it hard it will help. She then was a lot more firm about the direction the session went in and what we discussed... instead of letting me dictate it which usually happens. I didn't end up getting to talk about a lot of the stuff I had planned to when I came in.

I don't think the session was bad, it was harder than usual, but the stuff we did was good and made sense... but I kind of wish she had pointed all this out earlier... say after 3 sessions instead of 10... I feel like she's been very all over the place with the approach she's been taking, and she's been letting me control the sessions too much with what I choose to talk about.

On one hand I think what we've started doing is good and I want to continue it... but it also annoys me that we potentially wasted time and it has made me lose faith in her a little. I sort of feel like she's only just sat down and actually thought about what she's doing with me and the direction we need to go in. In saying that, I have enjoyed our previous sessions and we have discussed lots of important things. I guess I'm just confused about how different the last one was to usual.