What are you hoping/wanting out of seeing a T?

Often times a client and T dont mesh well is because its unclear what someone needs..

My sessions are almost always goal orientated, Like if I am just brutally beating myself up for something that I think is a flaw ....then we pick it apart and we get the root of the problem and then we find different coping skills to see if any stick and are helpful and if not we find more to try..

Sometimes seeing a Therapist is about giving a person a safe place to just unload there heads " word vomit" I call it.. Its often helpful to just unload our emotional baggage and then you and your T can decide together what to work on first.. Therapy can be a long term investment into yourself...You dont have just 3-4 things that need polished and your good to go. Therapy is hard work, But its worth it.. You can find hope, work towards finding more stability, Leaning more and more coping skills. Just because you can say you have tons of coping skills doesnt mean you can actually use them when most needed.

If it were me.... My next session I would just say something like " I am just not feeling like what we have been doing is working, Im having lots of struggle with X and I need help in finding ways to work on X...

You can voice that your unhappy with how your current therapy is going and honestly how can we expect someone to truly help us if they dont know exactly what we are struggling with?

Often it boils down to us having to be specific and ask for help for that.. One step at a time