I had a lot of things in mind when I first started therapy, but went with two major outstanding (yet interconnected) areas/goals that I wanted help with. These were generalized anxiety and issues with motivation/work performance. I found the therapy initially helpful with these, but after a few months I arrived at a state where it was clear that the initial success was just temporary symptom relief and the roots go much deeper. Then for a little while I felt lost about what to do and how but more recently I feel that I am starting to have a really good grip on the source and core problem and decided to try to focus on that in therapy instead of drifting everywhere. The initial wandering was very useful though as it helped define a more distinct path to take. Generally I am a quite goal-oriented person in my life but like to investigate much larger areas at least in the beginning to see how everything fits together and to identify the true focus. Interesting to see that this is also pretty much how I have been doing therapy so far... of course not surprising.