Avoidance will always default therapy.
Therapy is important and I fully encourage it but you can't change who you are.

I'm grateful for the kindness my psych has shown me but strongly believe therapy is used as a way to understand AvPD and to pick you up when you fall.... But you cannot change your personality.
If you can default your personality, well then you don't have a personality disorder.

Pyschs tend to have what I guess would be a different role in our life (guessing)
I think they are someone who we need or a replacement of what we need as in support/ love or even a friendly face. Basically they are filling a void in our life... Plus we learn about AvPD.
Once you have gone as far as you can in therapy, simultaneously you slowly push away defaulting back.