I´ve thought about my therapy sessions and almost every time I come in and I verbalise different kinds of self-attacking thoughts like "I´m a failure", "I´m not good enough" and so on. I verbalise this through telling about what happened to me during the week and so on.

After nine months in therapy I still do this even if we also talk about other stuff and I don´t feel my T is helping me towards another direction. She sometimes make a compliment, she exemplifies events from her own life when she perhaps wasn´t as successful to, I guess, show me how to be more kind against oneself.

But telling me such things doesn´t stop me from judging myself and I now wonder if therapy is consolidating my negative self image?

If I every time tell her about things that I find negative about myself and she doesn´t steer my thoughts in another direction, then I will just stay the way I am.

Should I expect her to use therapy techniques to help me build a better self image?