I often felt the same way. I thought that most of my problems were related to practical things (and the avoidance of them), but just scratch the surface a bit and all those underlying emotional issues become obvious. I still often want to just get better at handling practical things, and as soon as possible (driving phobia is also one of mine), exactly because dealing with all that old emotional stuff underneath can be very overwhelming and draining. Never very effective that way, or most of the time only transiently. I never truly found that simply talking about the emotional issues, trauma etc can change much though, it has to be a combination of investigation and active efforts to try to go against the current and do things differently, whether I want it or not. That can be a good thing for me right after a therapy session: to get into the implementation of whatever I want to change, instead of giving in to the overwhelm. Do something small and simple. It can also be a good distraction from focusing on feelings too much.