I´ve been in therapy with my new T for about 4 months. It´s a psychodynamic therapy and we work both on the present and the past. This T is quite focused on talking about childhood and even if she knows I haven´t experienced any specific traumas it feels like she wants to dwell on the past.

I want this kind of therapy but it feels like she tries to find explanations that aren´t there and that makes me feel that she always expects more of me than I can give her. I don´t have a a lot of childhood "stories" to tell and by that it feels like we talk about similar things session after session.

I just assume things take time but as we are about to evaluate therapy in the upcoming sessions I just get the feeling, perhaps it´s wrong, that she feels I don´t open up enough. I´ve already earlier on told her I was hesitant about continuing but that was because other things and now isn´t the time to bring another opinion.

I mostly wonder how a T evaluates progress, what is progress in therapy for example?

I´m a bit scared this therapy will end as well as this T is within public health care and I suspect she wants faster progress as time and resources are limited.