I have often felt the desire to be a "good client," basically to cause no problems, be on time, pay on time, be interesting and appropriate and not too much bother. I talked to my T about this and he asked what would be "bad" client behavior to me. He said that anything outside of physical assault and stalking his kids is something we would talk about and work with. So I think the point was that he's not seeing me because I'm "good" and wouldn't stop seeing me if I was "bad," so I should just act however I want and let the chips fall.

Journaling is definitely a helpful thing for me, sometimes I go through recent journal entries right before session to see what I want to talk about.