I remember there was a point when my therapist was actually the one concerned about a lack of progress. I wasn't concerned that it had anything to do with him because I knew I was just in a really badly stuck place and wasn't budging. Sure enough, I eventually got past that point and moved forward.

It was only at the very end that I felt that our sessions had ceased to be useful, and that was because I was ready to be finished with therapy - I was good on my own. We talked about how I wanted to finish things up and that was about it.

Of course there were sessions that didn't move things forward much, but often that was quite intentional on our part. We sometimes very purposefully kept things light. And honestly, keeping things light in those moments was helping me progress by not adding to whatever was overwhelming me at the time. Sometimes self-care IS progress.