There is no "correct" way to do therapy. I guess you have to look at what you are doing in therapy, why you are not connecting your journal life and your therapy life. A journal is not enough; it is not a "live" person. We are live people :-) but not in-person, face-to-face and that, as you have seen, makes all the difference.

Were your questions mine, I would write some of the issues from the journal, each on a single 3 x 5 piece of scrap paper and fold them up, put them in a Ziploc bag or hat or bowl, etc. and each time I went to therapy, I'd pick one out and then, first thing, I'd read it aloud to myself and my T and then discuss that. Would be "exciting" and probably scary as heck :-)