I think in general another problem is that most Ts see a client at a first session and the client can't say or isn't able yet to do into the underlying stuff so they'll say they feel depressed or anxious and there's really something much deeper there like trauma or SI or an eating disorder so the T approaches things as the standard anxiety/depression case but has no idea that the client needs more or a different approach. One of the things my T does is schema therapy so at the beginning she made me fill out a large pile of questionnaires asking about past traumas, feelings about myself, etc. We went over it at the beginning but not in detail and I declared certain topics off limits, at that time "permanently". She didn't press me on the off limits stuff but when it resurfaced she started to coax me into dealing with it. I think we had an entire session where she explained why we had to deal with it and how we could do it slowly and ensure my safety/sanity while doing so

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