I prefer to use therapy in a goal-directed way rather than diffusely. My two main goals with my last therapist (in this past year) were restoring my long-term sobriety after a relapse with an addiction (and work on general obsessional tendencies), plus to address work-related anxiety. I feel that I've arrived at a satisfying state with these so I ended regular therapy a bit over a month ago but we have an arrangement with the T that I can return anytime if needed. What I plan now is to have occasional sessions with the T to discuss specific things when I feel I can use his input and support. All these are my choices.

I always felt that my therapists encouraged broadening the "playground" of therapy and wanted to drift (well, I also have that tendency when I enjoy the conversations), sometimes into areas that I felt they had an interest in and I had no problems with that I wanted to address with them. I am interested in hearing these but like to determine what and how much effort I am willing to put into something.