What you quoted sounds a bit like naming / validating emotions, normalizing behavior. Those are things many therapists do, but I suppose these could be dome with more thought and complexity to be of use to you.

My therapist has never said something like "you don't like to be humiliated". Some things are obvious. But he has on occasion named my emotions before I noticed or before I talked about them. I guess it usually helps to move the conversation forward. He does normalize behavior sometimes (saying something I feel is normal) - not very often but when he does it's helpful if I have doubts whether that particular thing was normal. Unfortunately I don't remember one time in particular right now. I usually find it particularly useful when he says he thinks something I did was good, but that's because I care about what he thinks and I understand how that would be intruding if the client doesn't care what the therapist thinks.

Usually the things my therapist says don't feel pointless to me even it it's something I know. He has at times said things that I felt were hurtful, but I don't think he's ever really said pointless things to me.