Hey. Yeah, I thought (from what you had said) that it was you who was pushing... What I was trying to do is get you to maybe have a little think about whether it is helpful for you to push in those ways, or whether you might be helped a whole lot more by easing up on yourself a little.

Maybe... Instead of thinking about what therapy 'should' be like or what therapy is 'supposed' to be like or what your therapist would like therapy to be like... Just go along and see what you feel like talking about.

> i've not yet done a session in a way i felt he wanted me to

Can you talk to him about that? It might be that you think he has an expectation that actually... He doesn't.

> the idea is not to just discover why i feel or act as i do, but to discover patterns over my life and then alter those.

Do you feel that that will be helpful for you right now or would you like to try something a bit different?