This would drive me crazy too bc it makes her seem entitled and just phoning it in. Are there things you do respect about her? Work ethic, if it is an important value to you, might be something that creates common ground with a therapist you perceive as also hard working. With both of you working hard, there is comradely in that, especially if being/staying high functioning is important to you. There is no way, I will admit, I could work with someone who seemed unprepared for session. More, I prefer to work with someone who takes the job very seriously, if not as a calling then as an important role that carries with it a ton of responsibility to exercise good judgement. The therapist you describe would not work for me, in California or New York.
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