I dealt with it by leaving therapy. I have no desire to pay someone an inordinate amount of money to pretend to care for an hour, only to make it abundantly clear with every action that they do not, in fact, care at all.

Their field seems to mostly entail trapping vulnerable people into a pseudo relationship which, not unlike a drug, involves them doing their very best to create a heady dopamine release for the hour (which they do through enacting various empathetic, caring cues which cause the client's brain to release all sorts of bonding hormones), and leaving the client looking for the next fix.

Like a drug, therapists are expensive, and the 'service' they provide seems largely designed to create life-long 'users'. Ideally the user would be relatively content between 'hits' taken of the therapy pipe, developing cravings which are manageable between sessions, but as with physical drugs, some people become very dependent very quickly and require more frequent doses if they are not to experience painful withdrawal.

Everything I personally experienced in therapy, and everything I have read since then brings me to the conclusion that therapy is nothing more than a socially acceptable addiction, with all the costs, pitfalls and life stealing side effects that any other addiction entails.

Sounds like your second therapist would like you to manage your addiction more conveniently for her. She's keeping you on a low maintenance dose of therapy. Your first is better at providing more frequent doses, but as with any addiction, the more frequent the use, the more painful the side effects. So it's not surprising that the first therapist causes more pain. She is the more powerful drug. That explains both the craving and inability to 'quit'.