I'm a highly motivated, goal-oriented person. Not all my goals are concrete in terms of doing a certain activity but they may such abstract things as discuss a painful topic all the way to graduate college to changing jobs or stop a damaging behavior.

And some of my sessions feel productive and useful and others either don't achieve liftoff or just devolve into feeling stuck or misunderstood or having wasted time in general.

Some folks say there is no wasted time, but I disagree. I think some sessions are spent better than others, now that I and my T know each other well enough.

So I was curious to get a simple reading on how often other clients have "good" sessions versus unhelpful ones. By good, of course, I do not mean happy or light (although sometimes good sessions can be very happy and relieving in my experience), they may be painful or even confusing or upsetting, but there can still be progress, which I would call a good session- when we gain something from the experience.